“The Bear” reports he got his knowledge from Vilhjalmur Stefansson.
Here’s Vilhjalmur Stefansson’s own published report.
At the end of the article is a link to the Bellevue Hospital Experiment report whose last conclusion is, “In these trained subjects, the clinical observations and laboratory studies gave no evidence that any ill effects had occurred from the prolonged use of the exclusive meat diet.”
Interesting Stefansson quotes:
“These months on fish were the beginning of several years during which I lived on an exclusive meat diet. For I count in fish when I speak of living on meat, using “meat” and “meat diet” more as a professor of anthropology than as the editor of a housekeeping magazine. The term in this article and in like scientific discussions refers to a diet from which all things of the vegetable kingdom are absent.”
“We divided up the caribou Eskimo style, so the dogs got organs and entrails, hams, shoulders, and tenderloin, while the invalids, and we hunters got heads, briskets, ribs, pelvis and the marrow from the bones.”
“The danger is that you may reason from this good health to a great longevity. But meat eaters do not appear to live long. So far as we can tell, the Eskimos, before the white men upset their physiological as well as their economic balance, lived on the average at least ten years less than we.”
“It may be that meat as a speeder-up of metabolism explains in part both that Eskimo women are sometimes grandmothers before the age of twenty-three, and that they usually seem as old at sixty as our women do at eighty.”
Today we often argue about quality versus quantity of life, especially in end-of-life contexts.
Perhaps the lack of salt in the diet could have impacted their longevity as a new study suggests and as reported by Dr Phinney at the Feb 2015 Cape Town LCHF Convention:
Here’s a youtube video of Dr Phinney talking about the new salt findings.