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That Icelandic diet sounds pretty similar to how I eat today. What's unhealthy about it?
by cgh 9y ago
That Icelandic diet sounds pretty similar to how I eat today. What's unhealthy about it?
- ppeetteerr 9y agoIt's not the same cooking you've come to expect. There is a whole wikipedia entry on the subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_cuisine#Medieval_Iceland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_cuisine#Medieval_Ice...
- Eric_WVGG 9y agoI assume your response is coming from a low-carb/paleo perspective? No leafy greens or vitamin-rich vegetables. The vegetables that are there (root vegetables) are carby and not especially nutritious. Huge vitamin deficiency across the board.
- cgh 9y agoThat is simply incorrect. For example, beef liver is about twenty times more nutritious than fruit by mass. My original question was a bit cheeky as I already knew the answer.
- ivanhoe 9y agoYes, but don't forget that for a relatively small amount of a beef liver you need to kill a whole cow. And when you kill the animal you couldn't cherry-pick the parts of the meat you use, everything was used while it lasted. The parts that could be preserved would last for a while and things like a liver would be eaten right away or used to make sausages. In the middle age common folks didn't eat meat as often as we do today, it was a luxury. They primarily used a lot of buttermilk, cheese and eggs instead.
- gehwartzen 9y agoNot when you eat the entire animal including organ meat as these folks undoubtedly did.
- puranjay 9y agoYou get your diet from a warm supermarket. Or heck, delivered to your door. The Icelandic ancestors didn't have that luxury in their country's bitter cold