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Dr. James H. Salisbury - Early Advocate for Meat Consumption

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I don't know how many times I've eaten a dish called "Salisbury Steak" but I never knew the story until today.  Some consider the Salisbury Steak the first fad diet.

I always thought Salisbury was a chef, not a doctor.  Turns out he was a civil war doctor and early experimenter and promoter of using diet for health and longevity.  He claimed our teeth are "meat teeth" and our digestive systems designed to digest lean meat, and that vegetables, fats, starches and fruit should only be 1/3 of our diet.  (Oddly the video only says fruits and vegetables)

The entire video is very good but if pressed for time skip tp 8:01 for the most salient part.

 

 

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10 hours ago, XaqNautilus said:

He claimed our teeth are "meat teeth" and our digestive systems designed to digest lean meat, and that vegetables, fats, starches and fruit should only be 1/3 of our diet.

And he was definitely on to something. 

This jives with the claim that humans are hypercarnivores, meaning that we get more than 70% of our diet from meat.

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