Date: 7 December 2000
Note: Aajonus reacts here to a post by low-carb critic, Phil Kaplan.
Karl Note: On December 7, 2000, I asked Aajonus Vonderplanitz to review this article, he did, and returned the following comment to me with permission to quote:
Ninety percent of what Kaplan says is true for cooked food diets, including the Atkins diet. No one has developed kidney stones on my Primal Diet because uric acids do not excessively form nor collect when eating raw meat.
The low-metabolism occurs on a low-carb/no-carb diet because of the glucose is consumed as the body tries to reduce the toxicity generated from being cooked. Humans require little glucose from carbs to produce health when the diet is raw with meats and fat.
Healthfully, Aajonus
Karl Note: In January 2001, a reader queried this data, wondering what reference Aajonus might have for this information. Aajonus responded with the following.
Hi, Karl,
Books:
New Raw Energy by Susannah and Leslie Kenton
Cancer; Disease of Civilization? by Vilhjalmur Stefansson
Primitive Man and His Food by Arnold De Vries
As I stated in my book, even though Native American tribes cooked some of their meat, they did not have the bone degeneration theoretically associated with meat. They developed bone degeneration after many years of gathering nuts and cultivation. The tribes that mainly live on meat do not have symptoms of overacidity or bone deterioration that is said to be caused by meat-eating: Masai and Samburu. The problem is probably the high cooked carbohydrate intake that causes overacidity and degeneration from byproducts, such as Advance Glycation End Products.
My experience is that people who had suffered severe overacidic problems on every sort of diet reversed those conditions on the Primal Diet consuming from 1-3 lbs. of raw meat per day. There is always some overacidity of the blood due to a lifetime of toxins that must be dissolved and removed from the body. That mild but frequent overacidity is countered by drinking green vegetable juices between meat meals, but at least 1 hour from any meat consumption.
Healthfully, Aajonus