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Meat, cheese, bacon bad proteins and no diet like that in the world?
Again let’s look at facts.
The Masai and other African tribes exist largely on a diet of milk, beef and blood, they are free from heart disease and have low cholesterol.
Eskimos eat copious amounts of animal fats from fish and marine animals. They are free of disease and exceptionally hardy.
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These are both groups of people who live in yin, natural environments with lots of space and lead very yang, physically active lives. Especially Eskimos! If you look at the lifestyle as a whole you'll always find some kind of a balance.
An interesting note I found about the Masai: "They (the Masai) are dreaded as warriors, laying all to waste with fire and sword, so that the weaker tribes do not venture to resist them in the open field, but leave them in possession of their herds, and seek only to save themselves by the quickest possible flight."
(J.L. Krapf, Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labours.)
I don't know about you, but I wouldn't have wanted these guys for neighbors.
The Masai had space (yin) but their climate was yang. They therefore had excess yang, which they seemed to find a use for!
Dr. Weston Price, who studied traditional African diets during the early twentieth century, concluded that the healthiest tribe "was the Dinkas, a Sudanese tribe on the western bank of the Nile. They were not as tall as the cattle-herding Neurs groups but they were physically better proportioned and had greater strength. Their diet consisted mainly of fish and cereal grains. This is perhaps the greatest lesson of Price’s African research—that a diet of whole foods, one that avoids the extremes of the carnivorous Masai and the largely vegetarian Bantu, but incorporates both nutrient dense grains and seafood, ensures optimum physical development."
http://www.westonaprice.org/traditio...of_africa.html
The world is getting more and more polluted and one of the greatest, if not THE greatest, sources of toxins in the human diet is now animal fat. Our bodies are fast becoming Superfund sites. It is unfortunate but even indigenous peoples who once thrived on animal-rich diets are now just as vulnerable to the effects of these industrial by-products as those of us living in the societies that create them. Cancer, birth defects, things once unheard of in these communities are becoming common. You mention Eskimos, but studies done on their food sources & breast milk are finding alarmingly high amounts of PCBs and dioxin.