On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 8:07 AM, carolyn_graff <zgraff@charter.net > wrote:
Heather,
so what if your relative had eaten no veggies but lots of butter (for butyrate)? would he have fared better?
Mostly the milk is fermented, or made into cheese, and I'm sure they would eat butter too. The only example I can think of for people eating primarily butter though would be, say, the Tibetian monks, who drink "butter tea" mixed with barley as a main staple. Whole barley though, has plenty of polysaccharides in it, and the tea has antioxidants. And since they are all male, we don't know how it affects babies and kids. Butter probably has the "good stuff" from plants in it though, so I could see how it would make a decent staple without eating vegies.
The "low carb" diets tend to be primarily ruminant muscle meat though, and I don't see much precedent for that. The Masai, interestingly, do 10 days on milk and then one day on blood or meat? Since meat, and especially blood and organ meats, is very high in iron and humans don't handle iron all that well, this is an interesting division. Of course, you also don't want to kill your cows much (cows can give a lot more milk than they can blood).
My relative didn't drink milk either, and ate mostly meat and potatoes. Probably ate some butter. But the meat and potatoes are both high in iron, plus most commercial starches are too. The iron gets absorbed by the gut cells and is stored there ... I think THAT is one of the big triggers of colon cancer and gut issues in general. Iron is really, really irritating, which is why people tend to throw up after surgery. The blood that gets into their stomach (from the air tube they put down your nose) makes you ill, even in small amounts. Eating it day after day, the gut cells are saturated with iron, so they get inflamed, which probably leads to polyps? Then, without the butyrate to clean them out, they just grow.
The lactoferrin in whey though, binds to iron and keeps it from being problematic. So I would think a milk diet would be better (assuming one can digest milk ok, which only a portion of human beings can, genetically).
The Plains Indians relied on buffalo for a staple, but they ate lots of other foods too, and apparently they started hunting buffalo more after they got horses, which was a more recent thing. But they also tended to have a low birth rate (and high infant mortality?) which is why they would kidnap kids. So I don't know that their diet was ideal. It's hard to get a good human diet on inland foods.
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