Outsider Logic Department: the Fabulous Curative Necessity of Fatty Meats

JF Ptak Science Books LLC    Post 989

[see also my related posts on Women Meat Pioneers and of course Meat String and Curled Hair]

I have a suspicion that the author of Eat Meat for a Successful Life, G.H. Brinkler  (a “N.D.”, doctor of nauturopathy,  from the American School of Naturopathy and the tautologically-surprising “founder” of the “Brinkler Club”) had a compromised and possibly antagonistic personal history with vegetables.  And water, as Mr. Brinkler is also the originator of the “Brinkler Waterless Way to Health”, and a man who claims not to have drunk any water in 35 years. 

Most humans don’t do so well without water after a few days, though there are extreme cases where people have survived for several weeks without water. To have survived 1,820 weeks seems pretty much to be well on its way to being a vastly under-appreciated record of human endurance.

But the main story here of course is the meat, with the waterless bit woven through it like heart-ending marbling in a butt chop.  Meat, as we are told by Mr. Brinkler, is pretty much a “natural fixer” for just about anything.  Lazy in the morning?  A pound of pork on the broiler will cure that.  Sexual inadequacy?  Solved with meat (ingestion).  Poor memory?--the answer:  meat, and lots of it. And not only just meat; it definitely needs to be not lean. Big fatty meats are the greatest source of the desired “muscle food”; lean meats, unfortunately, are only “nerve foods”. Somehow the meat mixed with the waterless way induces the “nerve-ends” into a “more natural” and strengthened existence.

The Brinkler follower should also chew their meat less.  “The masticating fad might result in tiring the jaws and gross undernourishment”.

I could go on and pull further quotes out of context from this piece, but that would be mean. The pamphlet (1934) I have is the U.S. Copyright Deposit copy, and I suspect that there may not have been many copies other than mine. I think that all the man was trying to do was sell broilers. 

Comments

[Jeff Donlan]

I love it: unchewed red meat and no water. The path to good health. Beats Woody Allen's lines in "Sleeper." I love this subtle caveat: "Why not try Dr. Brinker's remedy, a pound of good porterhouse. People tell me it works well when used with sufficient fruit juices." Like ... eight to ten glasses of fruit juice a day?

[John F. Ptak]

Yes, Mr. Brinkler didn't stipulate how many glasses of fruit juices to take. Mainly I think because fruit juice can't be broiled (I think). And if it can't be broiled you don't need a broiler. A broiler sold by people. A broiler sold by Mr. Brinkler. So if you don't need a broiler sold by Mr. Brinkler it isn't a Brinkler System Dietary Deal. Flat Earth.