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Vilhjalmur Stefansson’s Amazing “Stone Age” Meat Diet

Explorer-anthropologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson spent more than ten years among primitive Eskimo people on islands in the Canadian Arctic. He learned about their diet, and later (in the 1950s) adopted it. What is the diet of a Stone Age Eskimo? In the Arctic, it consists of meat, both the lean and fat, and water. The primitive Eskimos had no vegetables, no carbohydrate except the infinitesimal amount contained in meat, no fruit, no cheese, no salads, no desserts. In this article his wife Evelyn explains why it proved to be successful.