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iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years agoThat's the irony, isn't it ? The Romans who would have just starved a bit would have survived, but the ones who ate only rabbits got poisoned.
Yup, fish would have solved their problems, but they foolishly ate too many rabbits since they had access to them.
The poison limit seems to be defined by how much protein your liver kidneys can throw out of your body:
"According to Bilsborough and Mann (2006), the protein intake is mainly restricted by the urea cycle. They suggest a limit of 2.5 g/kg"
A 100 Kg man would have a limit around 250 g per day
masterofballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I'm really skeptical. I know people that have eaten nothing but lean meat for atleast two weeks to get "Ripped" The rabbit bones and deer bones should still have had a decent amount of fat they could have drank after boiling. It's probably because they would cut up the animal and give the really bad lean parts to the soldiers while the officers kept all the good parts for themselves. Deer brains and organs have lots of nutrients. You can 100% live off just deer and rabbit for more than a year if you had plenty of them. Maybe not just the lean cuts.
iamtanmay@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Rabbits don't have the kind of essential fats like in fish. Not sure about Deer meat. To be really sure that your friends didn't consume any fats, there would have to be no dairy, no alcohol, no oil, no snacks etc. I think its hard to get protein poisoning if you live near civilisation, because most food contains alcohol, dairy and oil.
As mentioned in the Wiki article, science is not sure why protein poisoning takes place if you don't eat essential fats. Logic would say you should get poisoned if you eat 10 rabbits and a pork steak, instead of just 10 rabbits. But that isn't the case according to the US military, which warns troops not to eat too many rabbits if they get stranded.
Liver can't get rid of excess protein via Urea unless you give it some fats. Why ? No one knows
Nutritional science is the Astrology of natural sciences. No way to make accurate research on humans because it would be unethical to imprison people and control their diet.