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Skriven 2007-02-23 20:43:00 av JIM WELLER (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: more land o' chains 103
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 -=> Quoting Michael Loo to Jim Weller <=-

 ML> a pair of demon children.

 JW> I am grateful that while mine are boisterous and energetic at home,
 JW> they have learned how to behave at a restaurant already. Even the two
 JW> year old is safe to take to a good place.

 ML> Good for them. I don't know whence the defectiveness in these
 ML> children arises, unless it be genetic.

I think it's usually lack of training.

We had one moment, but all worked out well. The restaurant had an
aquarium full of tropical fish near the cashier. Lexi liked to go gaze
at the fish between courses. An older guy, semi-intoxicated, was
paying his bill when she tugged at his trousers, "Look, feesh! Dey is
coot. Hey, LOOOOK!!! FEEEESH!!!" But he decided she was adorable rather
than a pain in the ass and she now has a new fan.

[rabbit]

 JW> It's way too lean to survive on in cold weather. They may well be some
 JW> deficiency in their protein make-up as well, although this hasn't been
 JW> researched.

 ML> But I've not heard of any flesh being defective in proteins.

Me neither. I read an article once that suggested that, but it was all
speculation.

The following citation is taken from:
http://westonaprice.org/traditional_diets/nasty_brutish_short.html

"Another myth about primitive diets, and one that is harder to dispel,
is that they were low in fat, particularly saturated animal fat. Loren
Cordain, PhD, probably the most well known proponent of a return to
Paleolithic food habits, recommends a diet consisting of "lean meat,
occasional organ meats and wild fruits and vegetables." While this
prescription may be politically correct, it does not jibe with
descriptions of Paleolithic eating habits, either in cold or hot
climates.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson, who spent many years living with the Eskimos and
Indians of Northern Canada, reports that wild male ruminants like elk
and caribou carry a large slab of back fat, weighing as much as 40 to 50
pounds. The Indians and Eskimo hunted older male animals preferentially
because they wanted this back slab fat, as well as the highly saturated
fat found around the kidneys. Other groups used blubber from sea mammals
like seal and walrus.

"The groups that depend on the blubber animals are the most fortunate in
the hunting way of life," wrote Stefansson, "for they never suffer from
fat-hunger. This trouble is worst, so far as North America is concerned,
among those forest Indians who depend at times on rabbits, the leanest
animal in the North, and who develop the extreme fat-hunger known as
rabbit-starvation. Rabbit eaters, if they have no fat from another
source-beaver, moose, fish-will develop diarrhea in about a week, with
headache, lassitude, a vague discomfort. If there are enough rabbits,
the people eat till their stomachs are distended; but no matter how much
they eat they feel unsatisfied. Some think a man will die sooner if he
eats continually of fat-free meat than if he eats nothing, but this is a
belief on which sufficient evidence for a decision has not been gathered
in the north. Deaths from rabbit-starvation, or from the eating of other
skinny meat, are rare; for everyone understands the principle, and any
possible preventive steps are naturally taken."

Normally , according to Stefansson, the diet consisted of dried or cured
meat "eaten with fat," namely the highly saturated cavity and back slab
fat that could be easily separated from the animal. Another Arctic
explorer, Hugh Brody, reports that Eskimos ate raw liver mixed with
small pieces of fat and that strips of dried or smoked meat were "spread
with fat or lard."  Pemmican, a highly concentrated travel food, was a
mixture of lean dried buffalo meat and highly saturated buffalo fat.
(Buffalo fat, by the way, is more saturated than beef fat.) Less than
two pounds of pemmican per day could sustain a man doing hard physical
labor. The ratio of fat to protein in pemmican was 80%-20%. As lean meat
from game animals was often given to the dogs, there is no reason to
suppose that everyday fare did not have the same proportions: 80% fat
(mostly highly saturated fat) to 20% protein-in a population in which
heart disease and cancer were nonexistent."



Cheers

Jim, in Yellowknife




... I'm converting from veganitarianism to barbecueism.
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