[g-garron]

When I was following Atkins (because I like to lift weights and we need lots of protein) I read that the Inuit are really healthy people and they only eat meat.

Maybe meat is understimate and it's our western life style that cause the illnesses.

Meat + bad carbs + no exercise = health problems

But for sure being a vegetarian or something in the middle is healthy. As long as you continue biking and avoid fast absorbing carbs

Good luck

[tomkr]

The reason the Inuit can eat an diet consisting only of meat while remaining healthy is that it matches their lifestyle. A big problem for health in western society is the mismatch between those two, I don't think you can blame either one in isolation. We don't do a whole lot, but we eat a load of sugary stuff. This is a big part of Michael Pollan's critique on our diet, it is a very interesting read.

Besides, there are the obvious other health-related reasons to not eat factory-farmed meat, which most of our meat is. For that I can only recommend reading Eating Animals by Jonathan Saffran Foer. It was what pushed me over the line into becoming a vegetarian.

[g-garron]

Thanks I'll try to read those.

I'm now trying to eat a more equilibrated diet, lentils, beans but still meat in the diet.

[gte910h]

If you eat very fresh meat, a lot of the plant biased nutrients haven't decayed yet. For instance, very fresh beef has quite a bit of vitamin C in it, but by the time many people in the US eat it, much of that is gone.

[torontos]

I just did a quick google search and everything that I found suggested that the Inuit people are LESS healthy because they only eat meat. They have a lifespan 12 years lower than the rest of Canada.

[syedkarim]

no exercise = health problems --That's the real issue. Good carbs, bad carbs, gristle and fat; none of that is as important as not leading a sedentary life.