We’re told, sensibly, to avoid animal fats except in very small amounts, but what would actually happen to someone who ate nothing at all except animal fat for an entire year? Assuming they were a fit and healthy adult to begin with.
Bubblecar said:
We’re told, sensibly, to avoid animal fats except in very small amounts, but what would actually happen to someone who ate nothing at all except animal fat for an entire year? Assuming they were a fit and healthy adult to begin with.
I’d say you’d be either dead or seriously ill through lack of essential vitamins and protein.
Meanwhile, toddlers in low-income US families are becoming a bit less fat:
Study Finds Modest Declines in Obesity Rates Among Young Children From Poor Families
A new national study has found modest declines in obesity among 2- to 4-year-olds from poor families, a dip that researchers say may indicate that the obesity epidemic has passed its peak among this group.
…The study was based on data from 30 states and the District of Columbia and covered the years from 1998 to 2010. The share of children who were obese declined to 14.9 percent in 2010, down from 15.2 percent in 2003, after rising between 1998 and 2003. Extreme obesity also declined, dropping to 2.07 percent in 2010 from 2.22 percent in 2003.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/health/study-finds-modest-declines-in-obesity-rates-among-young-children-from-poor-families.html?_r=0
It appears that meat does contain vitamin C, but that the cooking process destroys it. The innuit appear to have avoided scurvy by not cooking, or only partially cooking, their meat.
I don’t know whether the animal fat contains any Vit C.
How do you do an image search?
Bubblecar said:
I’d say you’d be either dead or seriously ill through lack of essential vitamins and protein.
But but but that woman in the UK who only eats BBQ crisps is alive and… well, she looks terrible but is apparently healthy enough to be alive still. And she’s eaten nothing but crisps for 20 years.
wookiemeister said:
Bubblecar said:
We’re told, sensibly, to avoid animal fats except in very small amounts, but what would actually happen to someone who ate nothing at all except animal fat for an entire year? Assuming they were a fit and healthy adult to begin with.
you mean like the innuit?
They use their gall bladder more than most of us do.
>The innuit appear to have avoided scurvy by not cooking, or only partially cooking, their meat.
Whale skin is also a good source of Vitamin C.
Inuit.
I nu it was inuit.
But speaking of things people can eat without dying, I was watching My Strange Addiction the other night featuring a woman who eats powdered household cleanser. She eats it up to 10 times a day and has done for the past 30 years. Aside from having rotten teeth due to the damage from the cleanser, she was otherwise healthy. That stuff is toxic- how can she be alive after eating so much of it for so many years??
Divine Angel said:
But speaking of things people can eat without dying, I was watching My Strange Addiction the other night featuring a woman who eats powdered household cleanser. She eats it up to 10 times a day and has done for the past 30 years. Aside from having rotten teeth due to the damage from the cleanser, she was otherwise healthy. That stuff is toxic- how can she be alive after eating so much of it for so many years??
Her metabolism has attempted to adapt to the source of nutrient?
Anyway, here’s a short clip of the cleanser-eating woman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvEFXPJ25p8