History List

Holiday magazine ran a series of articles discussing the du Pont project, and for a time the so-called Holiday Diet became a household word. In principle, this was a controlled-carbohydrate diet, but in practice the high-protein, high-fat regimen offered so many calories per day that it was still impossible for most people to believe it would work.

The L-C Diet

January 1, 1950

holiday magazine holiday diet

The Masai have a relatively very high intake of protein, fat and calcium, while the Kikuyu have a high intake of carbohydrate and a low one of calcium.

Studies of nutrition. -- The physique and health of two African tribes

January 1, 1931

studies of nutrition kikuyu masai

Diabetic Cookery is published and provides guidelines to eat animal products while avoiding carbohydrates.

Diabetic Cookery: Recipes and Menus

January 1, 1917

oppenheimer diabetic cookery

Carnivorous animals most resemble man in their digestive apparatus.

Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion

January 1, 1833

beaumont digestion gastric juice

Ellen G. White, a Seventh-Day Adventist gets a vision to reform health by abstain from eating flesh-foods.

Ellen G. White and vegetarianism

June 6, 1863

ellen g white great light from the lord

Dr. Harvey knew that a diet of purely animal foods helped cure diabetes and would likely help obesity as well.

Mr. Harvey's Remarks

January 1, 1856

harvey diabetes obesity purely animal foods

Cope discusses the early eating habits of the English and the rarity of cancer at the time, the disease increasing as the consumption of meat decreased. He deplores certain civilized customs.

Cancer: Civilization and Degeneration

January 2, 1932

cope rarity of cancer english

Further evidence of old age Labrador Eskimos exists.

Superintendent Peacock's letter is dated at Happy Valley, Labrador, March 25, 1959

January 2, 1836

peacock eskimo old age

Aleut Eskimos who died between 1822 and 1836 are recorded with their age.

Veniaminov, Vol. II

January 1, 1836

veniaminov heavy flesh foods

Ancel Keys dismisses findings of the health of primitive Eskimos.

A newspaper exchange with Mr. C. N. Pearson

December 30, 1958

keys eskimos primitive

The Eskimo of the far North was healthy and lived to a very great age.

Seventeen Years among the Eskimos

January 1, 1890

griest eskimo point barrow very great age

Eskimos ate almost entirely animal substances and never ate the half-digested contents of the reindeer, and would also eat about as much fat as civilized man.

Ethnological Results of the Point Barrow Expedition

January 1, 1880

ethnological results point barrow expedition

For untold centuries ... the Eskimo of the far north had solely a carnivorous diet ... He was healthy ... He suffered from neither tuberculosis nor any venereal disease; and had rheumatism, if at all, in a limited degree.

Seventeen Years with the Eskimos

January 1, 1921

seventeen years with the eskimos

Eskimos who were meeting white men for the first time were living beyond 80 despite eating only meat and smoking Chinese tobacco.

The Plover's skipper, Commander Rochefort Maguire

April 1, 1853

eskimo robust muscular active longetivity

Eskimo infants are breastfed for 3-6 years and get masticated food directly from mouth to mouth, usually the fat and lean meats.

January 1, 1906

infant nutrition eskimo

Judicial Divisions in Alaska show more cancer for more civilization in a 5 year U.S. Treasury Public Health Report for 1926 - 1930.

Mortality in the Native Races of the Territory of Alaska, with Special Reference to Tuberculosis

January 1, 1931

public health report alaska cancer eskimo

Dr Ray N. Lawson believes most or all other types of malignancy to be as rare as breast cancer, among those Eskimos of the Canadian Arctic who still depend for the main part of their food on fat and lean seal's meat, cooked moderately or eaten raw.

Dr. Ray N. Lawson of 4459 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal 6 Conversation

December 1, 1957

lawson copper eskimo all meat no cancer

Copper Eskimos still didn't have breast cancer or cystic disease from 1946-1956 and were the last to Europeanize.

The Canadian Medical Association Journal of Toronto for 1956 (LXXV, 486-88)

January 2, 1956

breast cancer copper eskimo

A 70 year old Eskimo dies of cancer in 1949 but was likely eating a diet of largely flour, sugar, and tea in his latter two decades of life.

Cancer, Journal of the American Cancer Society, Vol. V (1952)

August 1, 1949

eskimo cancer flour sugar

Eskimos suffer very little from maglignant disease despite a practically exclusive meat diet.

Cancer and Diet

January 1, 1937

arctic region meat diet suffer very little

The Copper Eskimos taste sugar for the first time in 1910.

January 1, 1910

copper eskimos eastern arctic least europeanized

Dr Urquhart has not yet met with a single case of cancer in the seven years of his practice, the Eskimos of the Canadian Eastern Arctic were still living substantially on their native foods.

May 1935 issue of The Canadian Medical Association Journal (Toronto)

May 1, 1935

copper eskimo no cancer eastern arctic

Cancer becomes more common among Labrador Eskimos who ate the same Europeanized diets.

January 1, 1941

martin obed rosia white voisey samiat death cancer

An Eskimo woman named Leah Ikkusak becomes ill with inoperable stomach cancer.

January 1, 1938

leah ikkusak cancer

An Eskimo dies of cancer.

December 1, 1935

ford nochasak die cancer

Cancer was unknown among the Eskimos until their food was Europeanized.

January 1, 1898

hettasch cancer eskimos

Labrador Eskimos' muscles are rested by a shorter period of sleep than is customary among civilized peoples. Men and women alike show the power of withstanding fatigue.

January 1, 1902

hutton withstanding fatigue

Dr. L. A. White practiced in Alaska and rarely found hypertensive, arteriosclerotic, diabetes, cancer, strokes, or coronary heart disease among the natives between 1934-1948.

Dr. L. A. White Letter

January 1, 1934

white eskimo disease conclusions

Dr. Thomas Marcom found only one case of cancer of the penis between 1936-1946

Dr. Thomas Marcom Letter

January 1, 1936

marcom cancer

Dr. Smith had never encountered cancer in the natives before 1936

Mrs. Marguerite Smith Letter

January 1, 1936

smith cancer eskimo rare

Miss Keaton couldn't find any cases of breast cancer among Canadian natives while traveling for 15 years.

Miss Mildred H. Keaton Letter

April 15, 1957

keaton breast cancer eskimo

Mrs. Griest never found a case of breast cancer among Eskimo natives.

Griest Letter

February 19, 1957

griest breast cancer eskimo

White man's food starts to be eaten in 1913

Dawn in Arctic Alaska

January 1, 1913

dawn arctic alaska

The first case of cancer, a 25 pound liver, is found in an Eskimo native.

A Letter by Mrs Griest, a nurse in Alaska

July 27, 1933

first case cancer natives

Eskimo natives had a range of cooking styles and mostly carnivorous diets but did not suffer from cancer until modern foods entered their diet.

Letters of the present rector of St. Peter's-by-the-Sea, of Sitka, the Reverend Henry H. Chapman.

January 1, 1906

chapman cooking styles cancer

Dr. J. Lyman Bulkley never found a single true case of carcinosis while in Alaska.

Cancer among Primitive Tribes

January 1, 1901

bulkley cancer primitive tribes

Tumors, cancers and toothache were unknown to [Thlinget natives] until within recent years. The white man's food, especially his sweetmeats, is, no doubt, largely the cause of this change.

A Study of the Thlingets of Alaska

January 1, 1914

thlingets alaska

Dr Hutton: I have not seen or heard of a case of malignant new growth in an Eskimo.

Health Conditions and Disease Incidence among the Eskimos of Labrador

January 1, 1925

hutton eskimos labrador

Steward confirms that Dr Romig was a highly skilled doctor and that his discoveries about native peoples and nutrition were true.

Letters from Benjamin D. Steward and Reverend Henry H. Chapman

February 6, 1958

romig stewart chapman

Dr Romig was finding cancer in modernizing native families.

January 1, 1903

romig cancer modernized elements

He stated that in his thirty-six years of contact with these people he had never seen a case of malignant disease among the truly primitive Eskimos and Indians, although it frequently occurs when they become modernized.

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration - Romig

January 1, 1933

romig nutrition physical degeneration cancer

Dr Romig states that Alaskan natives on this [carnivore] diet the people were strong, and did not get scurvy ... the did not have gastric ulcer, cancer, diabetes, malaria, or typhoid fever, or the common diseases of childhood known so well among the whites.

J.H. Romig, M.D. Letterhead

January 1, 1896

romig 1896 alaskans

Cancer is very old in the civilized world, but rare in the native world based on research by Tanchou

Memoir on the Frequency of Cancer

July 6, 1843

memoir frequency cancer

Nobel laureate Albert Schweitzer: This absence of cancer seemed to me due to the difference in nutrition of the natives as compared with the Europeans ...

Cancer: Its Nature, Cause and Cure

January 1, 1913

cancer nature cause cure

Dr. William Howard Hay: Is it possible the cause of cancer is our departure from native foods?

Cancer a Disease of Either Election or Ignorance.

July 1, 1927

howard hay cancer

Dr. Stanton Hooker thinks cancer is a disease of civilization caused by wrong eating.

Eclecticism in Cancer Therapy

October 1, 1926

stanton hooker cancer eating drinking

Dr Morley Roberts thinks cancer is a disease of civilization.

Malignancy and Evolution

January 1, 1926

morley roberts cancer civilization

Cancer is extremely common among all civilized peoples.

Hoffman 1923 Lecture

January 2, 1923

hoffman cancer common

J Ellis Barker states in his book that the rates of cancer death and of sugar consumption were going up together.

Cancer: How It Is Caused, How It Can Be Prevented

January 2, 1924

rates cancer sugar

Dr. William Seaman Bainbridge - as civilization develops, there came an increase in susceptibility to cancerous disease.

The Cancer Problem

January 1, 1914

william seaman bainbridge cancer problem