EXPLORER'S VIEW

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 78, 28 June 1928, Page 3

EXPLORER'S VIEW

MEAT FOR HEALTH. NOVEL DIET THEORIES. NEW YORIK, 'May 34 A superstition that a 100 par cent, meat diet is bad is all wrong, according to Dr. Stefansson, the Arctic explorer. Stefansson recently cam e out of Bellevue Hospital, New York—which he entered in perfect health —after subsisting on nothing but beef products and water for 23 days. His colleague, Karste n Anderson, lived on a beef diet exclusively for 58 days, and left the hospital at the same time. ■ They feel neither better nor worse for the hospital experience. In the Arctic they lived for long periods on a meat diet exclusively without ill effects. They had volunteered for the diet; just concluded ■ in the interests of the Russell Sage. Institute of Pathology, which seeks information on the effects of an exclusive meat, diet in normal conditions on beat production and blood pressure. "Seven of the 11 years I spent In the Arctic I lived entirely en meat," Dr. Stefansson says. "Scurvy never occurs among those who subsist on meat. Those who eat canned fruits and vegetables, oatmeal, honey, and preserves suffer from it terribly."