I believe that the Inuit and others who primarily eat fat and protein, also do get some carbs via eating the gut contents of animals, plus whatever is available on the land in summer. But the Bellevue experiment was important in showing how well one can do on just fat and meat. And I don't think Stefansson died particularly early or suffered kidney disease etc or we certainly would have ben told about it by Dean Ornish!

There was a popular weight loss diet that was just fat and meat, about 25 years ago...I tried it myself back then, but the extreme ketosis it established caused me to suffer from almost constant extra-systole heartbeats, which doesn't happen on Atkins.

Interesting at the beach reading!

Val

Nice. On the web, check out: http://www.biblelife.org/stefansson1.htm

And I don't think Stefansson died particularly early or suffered kidney disease etc or we certainly would have ben told about it by Dean Ornish!

He lived till the age of 83. (1879 - 1962)