The Weight Loss Motivation Bible : Sustainable Fat Loss Carolyn Hansen The Weight Loss Motivation System | Page 28

Eskimo communities are
certainly not the only
populations
to
have
adopted a high protein,
high fat diet, and lived
fairly comfortably on
their preferred non-
carbohydrate staple of
meat. American Indian
populations often consumed bison almost exclusively as their food source,
only turning their noses up at the bison in the winter and early spring months
when bison body fat levels had dropped down to around 2 percent, making
the meat virtually poisonous as a sole source of nutrition.
Likewise, Midwestern trappers who made the mistake of thinking they could
live off rabbit meat in the winter months discovered the protein source was
so lean that no matter how much meat they ate they continued to remain
hungry (and eventually died if they kept up the habit). The point am I am
trying to make here is that a certain amount of fat in the diet is not only
desirable, it is absolutely essential to the metabolism of protein and the
maintenance of energy levels.
So when I say that you should eat lean meat as a source of protein I am
really talking about meat that is considered lean in modern day terms, with
a fat percentage of maybe 15 or 20 percent. This is in contrast to corn-fed
livestock whose body fat percentage can be closer to 50 percent. In the latter
case, this excess (saturated) fat is really a secondary source of carbohydrate
calories and the animals that supply the meat for our consumption are far
from healthy specimens. This is why “lean” meat is always to be preferred
over the alternative.
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