They write:Because of their traditional diet, which is based largely on fish and other marine foods (Some Eskimos in their sample got as much as 15% of calories from EPA+DHA. I have a friend who was eating grass fed organic beef and bone stew and ballooned up in weight on that Paleo/Atkins crap and couldn't stop the weight gain, until I told her to start juicing and eating more fruit and vegetables. Your health is in your own hands.One of the classic counter-arguments that's used to discredit accounts of healthy hunter-gatherers is the fallacy that they were short-lived, and thus did not have timdevelop diseases of old age like cancer.
A traditional Inuit diet consists almost entirely of protein and fat. I don't intend it to replace professional medical consultation or treatment.
I think as omnivores that have specific genetically encoded enzymes and morphological structures devoted to the breaking down of meat, the natural state of humans is an omnivorous diet.
Some had diabetes, despite low-carb diets; I suspect the combination of alcohol and omega-3 fats (also low vitamin D) to have been the culprit. [12] Scott EM et al.
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These and other chemical pollutants are already beginning to show an adverse effect on the Inuits' health, according to an article published in the March 2000 "Environmental Health Perspectives.
This may partially account for the health that the Inuit enjoy on this diet.The Inuit consume many parts of the animals they hunt, including bone marrow, brains and organ meats. These indigenous people are unable to grow crops on the frozen tundra; they subsist on wild fish and game. I had decided that my blood lipids were less than ideal but as good as they could get.
The average lifespan of a healthy Northern Inuit Dog is about 12 to 14 years. Two children had masses of confluent glands in the neck. We don’t have mortality or illness statistics but have conflicting clinical and pathological reports.
Considering that 75% to 90% of their food was acquired in the traditional way, a life expectancy of 32 years is not exactly a ringing endorsement of the healthfulness of the Eskimo/Inuit diet. Thanks for sharing those numbers.
I don’t wholly agree with his advice.I get the distinct impression that the author of this piece believes that “a life expectancy of 32 years” means that people generally died at that age. There was one case of tuberculosis of bone (phalanx); there was no reason to suspect lues in this case. It does not do a body good end of story. Therefore, I’ll give each group its own blog post, starting with the Eskimos and Inuit.Searches on “Eskimo cholesterol” and “Inuit cholesterol” turned up a lot of papers.
How many of these healthy eskimos had TC under 200 and how many had say, above 275?I didn’t record the standard deviations, but the picture shows scatter plots which give you an idea, and many of the papers have free full text available so you can follow links to see.In the scatter plots TC above 275 looks to be something under 10% of the sample – maybe 5%?Great series, Paul. However, iodine status was excellent and hypothyroidism was extremely rare.My guess is that these Eskimos were bringing a lot of tobacco, alcohol, and infectious disease back from those trading posts.Considering that 75% to 90% of their food was acquired in the traditional way, a life expectancy of 32 years is not exactly a ringing endorsement of the healthfulness of the Eskimo/Inuit diet. LOL.