I believe that people have listened to their parents since childhood to teach that a balanced diet and meat and vegetarian combination can grow healthily. These teachings are not without scientific reason, after all, most of the older generation of people have come out of "not enough to eat, not warm to wear".
In modern times, generations are taller and stronger than the next, and in addition to the reasons for the abundance of food sources, there are also reasons for the abundance of food ingested. What are the consequences of eating only vegetables and not eating meat, I believe that people who have learned about Japanese history have the answer in their hearts - they have become short because of malnutrition.
So what about eating only meat and not vegetables and fruits? Some people may wonder, after all, there is no such thing as a belief or someone who can be extravagant enough to eat only meat. But in real history, a group of people who worked in the seafaring profession told everyone the answer - easy to get scurvy.
Scurvy is a very serious disease that has even threatened human life in the past, but it is more common to seafarers who sail far away. For thousands of years, sailors have been suffering from this ailment, and they have to endure the risk of dehydration and death when they sail the vast seas, but what scares them most is the bleeding under the skin, under the mucous membranes, and in the bones.
If they don't get it resolved for months, sailors will have loose teeth, bruises or swelling on their bodies, and even severe paralysis. Curiously, as soon as the sailors went ashore to recuperate for a while, their bodies recovered again. Therefore, the ancients for unknown reasons also called this disease "fierce god of the sea", and the sailors were all discolored.
It was not until the 17th and 18th centuries that people discovered that this was caused by the lack of food resources at sea and the long-term lack of intake of vegetables and fruits. And the treatment and prevention of this disease does not require much effort, citrus fruits and fresh vegetables are serious threats to human life and health of the "sea god" nemesis, the real reason is actually the lack of vitamin C caused by the disease.
But when the cause was found, more strange phenomena emerged. For example, the Eskimos living in the cold Arctic Circle can not eat vegetables and fruits at all, they live in the ice and snow all year round, the lack of materials, the living conditions are quite primitive, the usual diet is only hunted sea fish, polar foxes and polar bears and so on.
According to common sense, the Eskimos could not have survived in this harsh environment for a long time, but they not only continued from generation to generation, but also did not cause any physical discomfort by eating only meat. Could it be that they have evolved under the long-term harsh environment? The answer is no, sometimes, nature is indeed quite harsh, but human intelligence is not small.
First of all, the name Eskimos means "people who love raw meat", which is an ironic term for the Eskimos who drank blood from ancient Times. But the Eskimos had to draw vitamins from raw meat in order to survive, so they still minded the ironic title.
Although cooked food is delicious, many times, some nutrients in the meat will be lost during the process of heating and roasting. Vitamin C is also generally decomposed at 80 degrees Celsius, which is undoubtedly a huge loss for the Eskimos, who are difficult to make fires in cold weather.
It's just that meat generally doesn't contain vitamin C, and even if some animals have trace amounts of vitamins in their bodies, they are mostly concentrated in the liver. But the vitamins in the liver are completely insufficient to support the nutrients that humans need to consume every day.
In addition to eating raw meat, the Eskimos also came up with a trick, that is, to process and ferment meat products. However, getting enough vitamins is not so simple. The Eskimos have two very traditional meat fermented delicacies that can replenish the vitamins in their bodies, but they are not good smelling, nor good-looking, and normal people will be sick to their stomachs the first time they see them.
The first delicacy, called The Marktak, was made by the Eskimonians after slaughtering the captured whales, cutting their skins into chunks along with their subcutaneous fat, storing them, and waiting for time and nature to act on them. To put it bluntly, it is actually food formed by the decomposition and fermentation of fat after a period of time.
MarkTak does bring eskimos a wealth of nutrients, and each pound contains up to 200mg of vitamin C. However, after all, Marktak is fermented food, like the sour shoots in the snail powder, and Changsha's famous stinky tofu, Marktak also has a strong fishy smell, the average person easily does not dare to try, the Eskimos themselves are also dipped in salt to eat.
Another delicacy is called Kiviak, but the process is more complicated than that of Marktak. Every time the Eskimos made a Kiviak, they needed to catch a hundred or so petrels, then stuff all of these hairy petrels into the seal's stomach, and finally bury them in the frozen soil, waiting for the petrel to ferment in the seal's stomach acid, often waiting for 1 to 3 years.
Kiviak is also quite disgusting, and the Eskimos take out the fermented petrels and then directly suck their offal, or smear the contents of the rotting bird's belly on top of the meat pieces. Today, the Eskimos still retain this food culture, although this seems very primitive, but at least they can get enough vitamins and live.