The Primal diet: the silliest diet ever?

[bijou]

John, a 36-year-old from London, is discussing the foods his diet allows. Carrots perhaps? Or quinoa? “I'm very keen on a raw hare carcass,” he says. “Raw mallard is good too. So's raw tongue and raw organ meat. Ideally, it'll have been sitting around for three or four weeks and be really off. Some people like it when it's liquid mush but I prefer it really off, but still so you can stick a fork in it.”

If the Pineapple, Atkins and Cabbage Soup diets seemed extreme, then consider the fanatics worldwide following the latest allegedly detoxifying trend - the Primal Diet, an eating plan consisting of raw meat, eggs and dairy - preferably past their sell-by dates. The diet, the latest to hit Hollywood, was founded by Aajonus (pronounced oj-enus) Vonderplanitz, a 62-year-old nutritionist from California - and it can be only a matter of time before it's endorsed by a twig-thin starlet. The theory is that raw fats bind to the toxins in the body, which are then more readily transported out of the system.

At its most basic level adherents exist on 95 per cent raw meat, including chicken (made more palatable with a marinade of herbs and spices). When they eat out they can rely on culinary classics such as sashimi, steak tartare and beef carpaccio. The remaining 5 per cent is made up with vegetable juices and low-carbohydrate fruits, such as avocados. True aficionados, however, favour “high” meat (so called because of Vonderplanitz's claims that it inspires a natural high), with a small sideorder of rancid unpasteurised yoghurt and fermented vegetables.

“It took me a long time to try high meat because I was scared,” John says. “It does stink like hell and it tastes like an aged raw cheese. The first time I tried it I had to chase it down with a glass of mineral water and I did have a couple of days detoxing, with a bit of diarrhoea. But now my only regret is being squeamish for so long. I used to have all sorts of health problems but now I feel great. I've heard of a couple of people with parasites from it, but I've been doing it for seven years and I haven't died yet.”

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[Chris]

Mmmm, rancid meat.

Hopefully these nitwits will take themselves out of the gene pool.

[bijou]

Mmmm, rancid meat.

Hopefully these nitwits will take themselves out of the gene pool.

If not I can't imagine anyone wanting to reproduce with them. 

[Flame]

Well, I can see how it works....the thought of eating any of that stuff makes you vomit, so you lose the weight you otherwise would have gained.   Those people are nutjobs!

[JohnnyReb]

If not I can't imagine anyone wanting to reproduce with them. 

I do imagine they all have a bad case of bad breath.

[Celtic Rose]

So the guy ate old meat, then spent several days "detoxing" with diarrhea  Dude, that is called food poisoning, not "detox" 

[Mike220]

And here I thought I'd heard just about everything.

I just don't understand things like this. I love my steaks rare or med-rare, and there isn't much better than fresh sushi, but it's damn sure fresh. No way am I eating rancid meat.

Fools.