Vilhjalmur stefansson diet for diverticulitis

About 100 years ago a Canadian ethnologist, Vilhjallmur Stefansson, spent 11 years living among the Inuit in the frozen North. For 9 of those years he ate substantially a diet composed of meat (including fish), organ meats and fat with just a few carbohydrates (only the glycogen contained in the muscle tissue and liver).

In the summer months he ate a few berries. Upon his return to ‘civilization,’ from his observations of the Inuit population with whom he had lived and of his own health, he postulated that such a diet was sufficient for good health.

It was, indeed, he averred, a complete diet.

Stefansson’s lectures on his experience with an all meat diet drew derision and cries of charlatan from the scientific and medical community.

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So, to ‘prove’ his hypothesis, he proposed a daring experiment. He offered himself and a colleague, Karsen Andersen, with whom he had shared his experience in the Arctic, as an in vivo experiment (n=2).

In 1928, under the