Historical Event

All History

Copy URL to Share

Date:

December 28, 1859

Short Description:

Tweet:

Reddit:

Bernard Moncriff, who wrote a book about the all-meat carnivore diet, commits suicide at the age of 37. In his suicide letter - he remarks "my heart is broken. Now you will know the secret of my miserable diet and why I was sitting in a room without fire, dispensing even with milk and tea, subsisting mainly on bread, potatoes, and sugar water, a diet which has so often plauged me with dysentery, and which has all but ruined by constitution."

Title:

Book:

Person:

Deaths and Inquests

URL:

http://www.old-merseytimes.co.uk/deathsandinquests1860.html

Important Text:

"my heart is broken. Now you will know the secret of my miserable diet and why I was sitting in a room without fire, dispensing even with milk and tea, subsisting mainly on bread, potatoes, and sugar water, a diet which has so often plauged me with dysentery, and which has all but ruined by constitution.

Topics: (click image to open)

	Carbotoxicity	The harm of eating carbohydrates.
	Carnivore Diet	The carnivore diet involves eating only animal products such as meat, fish, dairy, eggs, marrow, meat broths, organs. There are little to no plants in the diet.