Archive for December, 2008
The Romance of Pemmican
By the mid-nineteenth century the tropics and temperate zone were mapped and the explorations only took place in the Polar Regions, Arctic and Antarctic. Rear Admiral Robert Edwin Peary was considered one of the greatest of modern Arctic explorers besides Fridtjof Nansen. Peary was perhaps the greatest sledge traveler in the entire history of polar [...]
In: Diet, Disease, Vitamins
Is a Low-Fat, High Carbohydrate Diet Really Heart Healthy?
The revelations that I’ve written about concerning HDL have had little effect on our diet experts. They did not prevent the recommendation of a national low-fat, high carbohydrate diet. John Gofman’s argument of 1950 was confirmed once the results of all the expensive studies were compared and high HDL and low triglycerides was found to [...]
A Case for Endurance Running
During his first full-throttle “persistence hunt,” the South African biologist Louis Liebenberg was working with bushmen in the Kalahari Desert in the early 1990s. He accompanied a hunting party armed with handmade bows and arrows. The hunters stalked kudu — a nimble antelope, slightly smaller than an elk. When a young stag split off from [...]
In: Exercise, Populations, Running
Pemmican
One of the most controversial statements I have ever made was when I declared that a person can enjoy sustained and superior health on a diet of beef, fat and water. This roused such ire among the many experts. To that, I say, those who don’t know their history are destined to repeat it. Although, [...]
A Mental Exercise: Cow Love
Sometimes, there are practical and rather mundane explanations for why people do the particular things they do. Anthropologist Marvin Harris speculated that “Everyday consciousness owes its very existence to our developed capacity to deny the facts that explain its existence.” We don’t expect dreamers to explain their dreams no more than we should expect lifestyle [...]
