I did a rough calculation on an account of the high protein meals in
early Jamestown and found a similar calorie consumption. It made no
sense to me until the recent Atkins diet fad. I think what they lacked
were carbohydrates. They must have all been in permanent ketoacidosis
with acne and fetid halitosis.
Winsor
Long Beach, California, USA
On / December 13, 2007 CE, at 11:05 AM, Garth Wood wrote:
>
> Pemmican was a popular survival food for many of these guys, to
> supplement their diets with a store of fat and protein they could
> carry
> with them. There's at least one story of David Thompson, where
> voyageurs from the Northwest Company who were accompanying him had
> managed to gorge themselves on pemmican for several days at the rate
> of
> 4.67 *pounds* per guide per day, as well as other food stores they had
> with them. Thompson, reporting this in his diary, was obviously
> pissed
> off. I did a quick back-of-the-envelope calculation on the calorie
> intake of the voyageurs at this time -- assuming Thompson's
> reporting to
> be anywhere near accurate, they were each consuming about *20,000*
> calories/day.
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