tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423071683558717679.post1834149545725840435..comments2023-07-19T07:54:43.113-06:00Comments on Health Matters To Me: Talking Nutrition with a Wild ManUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423071683558717679.post-75370696946098020742009-03-03T14:39:00.000-07:002009-03-03T14:39:00.000-07:00To be fair, Matt said he "must have eaten ten poun...To be fair, Matt said he "must have eaten ten pounds of meat." He may have been overestimating. Or maybe not. After months of squirrels and rabbits, his body may have been primed and ready for the feast.<BR/><BR/>I recall reading about the mountain men and their meat-eating antics in Melvin Anchell's "The Steak Lovers' Diet." Interesting stuff. There was a part about these burly mountain dudes dipping rare liver in bile and eating it with gusto! <BR/><BR/>Thanks for reading, Scott :-)R K @ Health Matters To Mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03129987871286653818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423071683558717679.post-91876535014682369872009-03-03T05:00:00.000-07:002009-03-03T05:00:00.000-07:00wow 10 lbs in one sitting! I have heard of the ear...wow 10 lbs in one sitting! I have heard of the early explorers eating 6lbs of meat a day,Amazing. Nice blog by the way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423071683558717679.post-39775394627540624102009-03-02T20:19:00.000-07:002009-03-02T20:19:00.000-07:00Hi D.A.,Yes, I'm familiar with rabbit starvation. ...Hi D.A.,<BR/><BR/>Yes, I'm familiar with rabbit starvation. Stefansson (see links) has some great tidbits about this in his writings. It did strike me as odd that Matt ate so many rabbits and squirrels on his primitive living trip. One would think that such a diet would lead to rabbit starvation symptoms very quickly.<BR/><BR/>But Matt, being intuitive and paying attention to his body's needs discovered that he could survive and live quite well on small game by eating the entire animal. With squirrels, he chomped down bones, organs, skin, brains, and all. The whole carcass fat content (marrow included with that) must have been substantial enough to keep his health up. Some California Native peoples ate small game in a similar fashion, roasting and pounding the whole carcass and eating all the resultant powder.<BR/><BR/>As for rabbits, Matt ate the organs, brains, eyes -- every fleshy, edible part that he could sink his teeth into. Maybe he even cracked open the bones to suck out the marrow -- I don't know for certain. My hunch is that squirrels are fatter than rabbits, though.<BR/><BR/>Matt ate fish, too, and, yes, many fish are very lean, some are very fatty, depending on how cold the water is. I would think that he ate all the parts of the fish, too, getting adequate fat. But there is something about fish -- maybe the lack of saturated fats, as I posted -- that doesn't fully nourish a human body's needs. The Apache apparently knew this.R K @ Health Matters To Mehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03129987871286653818noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3423071683558717679.post-19631313959440769112009-03-01T21:47:00.000-07:002009-03-01T21:47:00.000-07:00wondering how rabbits play into this equation,as i...wondering how rabbits play into this equation,as it's my understanding that one would starve if eating nothing but rabbits because they are so lean - "rabbit starvation", it's even got a name of it's own... are fish even leaner? does eating the organs, brains, eyes offset this dearth of body fat?<BR/><BR/> Thanks,<BR/><BR/> D.A.Destroying Angelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06498483346205482056noreply@blogger.com