The very first sentence about why feces floats (for some people) is false. It’s due to methane, not fiber or undigested fat. I doubt that any of the rest of it is ay more accurate.
"Your body does not really digest meat. It only uses the fat & the meat rots in your system" T or F?
Maybe, that’s one hypothesis.
But yes, it is true that the old time Eskimo diet used to contain a lot of fat. Doubtless it was the primary source of calories.
I thought the folks who spouted that bit about all that undigested meat in the intestines were the loons who touted intestinal cleansing (the kind where they shoot water up your tush).
In Farley Mowat’s Never Cry Wolf he found that for a large carnivore to survive on an animal diet, it’s necessary to eat the whole animal:
Well, if you want to get extremely technical, your body’s digestive system cannot directly utilize anything that that you eat.
The food you consume feeds the beneficial bacteria in your digestive tract and it is these bacteria and the byproducts they produce while digesting your food that feeds you.
If the beneficial bacteria in your digestive tract is eliminated by antibiotics you may actually need a shit transplant to rejuvenate your system.
It is now thought that your appendix, rather than being a useless remnant of evolution serves the purpose of being a bacterial reservoir.
Before someone calls for a cite on the appendix thing, here:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/17/health/research/17appe.html?_r=0
Bullshit. You cites do not support this, nor does anything else. We are not termites or cows. Some carbohydrates are indigestible by us, and some of the fermentation products of our gut bacteria are absorbed by the gut. Everything else we do ourselves.
This has nothing to do with what you said. Yes, flourishing gut bacteria will help prevent C. dif. infection, but they do not digest your food for you.
As Nametag has pointed out, this is nonsense. Most digestion is carried out by our own enzymes; bacterial digestion makes a contribution, but it’s not the major factor.
Does anyone pay attention during their high school biology class?
From my experience teaching high school: Some, but not all, and even fewer remember anything a week after the test.
It’s one of my favorite books of all time, but the author admits some portion of it is fictional, it’s more “based upon a true story”. However, I think that’s one of the true parts, mind you, my Dad more or less said they same thing, and he lived with the Alaskan Eskimo for many years. (Mind you, he didn’t eat mouse, but his Eskimo taught him to eat all of a animal, including the stomach contents in many cases. Except certain bear liver.)
I want to remind dudes that “rabbit starvation” actually has few or no confirmed instances of actual death or starvation. The person does develop very strong cravings, which eating more lean rabbit meat can not quench. But the records show few instances of anyone actually dying of it. This is why we are not completely sure of what causes it. EFA deficiency is one theory, and DSeid’s cite about too much protein for the liver to metabolize is another. Perhaps it is some of both.
Did you read the thread before posting this? In particular, post #10
Well, it’s due to fart gases, and methane is one component of fart gases, but it’s far from the only or even dominant component. There’s also carbon dioxide, hydrogen, and ordinary air.
The biggest difference between “digest” and “rot” is whether or not the microbes that do it are inside your gut or outside your gut.
No it isn’t, as has already been pointed out several times in this fairly short thread, which is only being dragged out because people keep repeating this nonsense.
Wouldn’t it more or less the same thing as an Atkins diet?
This person is far, far too fascinated about taking a crap. That should be a clue that you are entering the Woo Zone.
Incidentally, the claim that a thin/narrow BM is perfectly fine ignores one ominous possibility - that a partial intestinal blockage could be responsible (for instance, from a tumor narrowing part of the colon).
Similar, but Atkins does include fats.
no, because 1) Atkins isn’t and never was about complete elimination of carbohydrate intake, and 2) generally contains enough fat intake for energy needs.
and that whole “putrefaction” thing which happens during decay but not digestion.
Atkins is usually 20 to 30% protein. Well under the 35 to 40% that the liver seems able to handle.