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carnivore:
The book is available online here :
https://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=batch_download&send_id=729378333&email=bae3a2e0a2ba2088a765e0fe70b3353a

The author advocates a low carb carnivorous diet.

A review taken from http://forum.zeroinginonhealth.com/showthread.php?tid=2479 :

Now that we can read it, the book deserves it own thread. I just finished it and I would consider it a MUST READ for all carber restricters, whether ZC, VLC, or LC.

Walter Voegtlin was a gastroenterologist, and his book on carnivorous/low carb nutrition is comprehensive and written from the perspective of a physician that treated patients in the real world. His argument for man as carnivore is well demonstrated, and he is most emphatic about fat meat being the only thing a human needs. He belongs in the ZC hall of fame alongside Stefansson, Banting, Taubes, Pennington, and Price for contributions to our knowledge -- and indeed like Banting published the work at his own expense and without fanfare or recognition.

The book does have its flaws: his map of human evolution is of course several decades out of date, he appeared to be unaware of the ability of the CNS to run partially on ketones, and the last few "save the world" chapters could have been omitted altogether (a flaw of self-publishing and not screened by a good editor). His prescribed low carb diets also fall short of his open enthusiam for zero carb -- which he never actually prescribes, but this is now the pattern I have seen with pro-meat physicians that advocated carb restriction: from Donaldson to Anchell to Atkins. Even Stefansson stops short of actually recommending zero carb to the average joe in NBBA, though he proves it works. If the Eades actually promote "all meat" in their latest book, it will be a first. I suspect these working physicians deemed zero carb as too challenging psychologically to recommend it to their patients.

Yet on the whole it remains a must read. I think that those who have come to ZC due to gastrointestinal issues will find this book especially edifying.

goodsamaritan:
Awesome find!
Thank you very much!
I've downloaded it and started reading it.

In my experience, in the past 3 times I've experienced inflamed intestines, what works is roasted / seared meats of fatty pork and beef.  It is immediately soothing.  No chance in hell fruits or vegetables would have helped with those incidents.

Raw Rob:
Thank you so much Carnivore!

I'm going to read this cover to cover.

I wanted this book a long time ago and could never find it.

I came to zero carb because of colitis.

I'm going to print out a copy for my neighbor who has colitis, and is still using drugs to treat it.

 

Ioanna:
Thanks, can't wait to read!

PaleoPhil:
Yes, thank you very much Frederic. I've been meaning to get my hands on this for a couple years now.

The following is an interesting quote from the book. I wonder if it qualifies as a hypothesis of diseases of civilization being caused by biological discordance and thus preempts Boyd Eaton's hypothesis in the 1985 New England Journal of Medicine? What do you think?


--- Quote ---p. XV:

It is now realized that whereas the environment of an organism such as Man may change very rapidly, physical and functional changes in him are accomplished only through a process of evolution, and such adaptive alterations occur in Nature only with profound deliberation, over millions of years.

Thus we can envision a collision course existing between unchanging Man and his rapidly changing environment. The more rapid his environmental changes, the more imminent is the inevitable collision.

This book is a study of the ecology of Man, as his environment has changed with (relatively) lightning-like rapidity from prehistorical to modern times, ana to delineate the effect these changes have had on human nutrition.

An attempt will be made to answer the question: "Is modern Man actually better or worse off nutritionally than was his Stone Age forbear?"
--- End quote ---

I believe this is the first book to advocate a Paleo/Stone Age diet. It was beaten out slightly by an article that came out in 1973, however. Stephen Boyden's “Evolution and Health,” published in The Ecologist, advocated a plant-based "primeval" diet, though I don't remember whether Boyden made any specific mention of the Paleolithic/Stone Age or biological discordance.

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