Not by Bread Alone Steffansson Vilhjalmur
Not by Bread Alone Steffansson Vilhjalmur Arctic explorer and anthropologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson spent years living with indigenous Inuit and Eskimo people. Observing their dietary habits, he…
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Not by Bread Alone Steffansson Vilhjalmur
Arctic explorer and anthropologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson spent years living with indigenous Inuit and Eskimo people. Observing their dietary habits, he determined that their primary food was meat, both lean and fatty, and that their diets were very low in sugary or starchy carbohydrates. He noted their general healthiness (and good teeth), and an absence of many of the diseases that plagued western cultures, such as scurvy, heart disease, and diabetes.
Karsten Andersen ate a meat-only diet for one year. Was this meaty diet the key to their good health?Stefansson's classic Not By Bread Alone chronicles a 1928 scientific experiment, conducted by the Russell Sage Institute of Pathology at Bellevue Hospital in New York, in which Stefansson and his colleague Dr. The two men stayed healthy and fared very well, leading him to claim that we should reexamine our notion of