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by BigCryo 1133 days ago
Our meat Staples here in America are very unhealthy.. we really should be aqua farming cetaceans and walruses and seals and stuff. Loaded with healthy fats... Eskimos eat pure meat and fat from these animals and they never get heart disease.. something to think about..... PostScript... Some would say we should not aquafarm cetaceans, but surely there are dumb cetaceans...
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tpush 1133 days ago
> Eskimos eat pure meat and fat from these animals and they never get heart disease..

That is probably more of a myth than anything [0].

"The evidence for a low mortality from IHD among the Inuit is fragile and rests on unreliable mortality statistics. Mortality from stroke, however, is higher among the Inuit than among other western populations."

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12535749/

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causi 1133 days ago
Different human ethnic groups have different dietary needs. Eating like a traditional Inuit would not go as well for, say, a Frankish man.

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/03/europeans-evolved-to...

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BurningFrog 1132 days ago
The Eskimos surviving after thousands of years in the arctic have evolved to thrive with the available diet.

That very likely does not apply to the rest of us.

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ch4s3 1132 days ago
There's no evolutionary pressure to not die from a stroke at 50 because you subsist on that sort of diet. Rates of stroke mortality are higher among Alaskan natives than other US ethnic groups, for example[1].

[1] https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2008...

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BurningFrog 1131 days ago
I don't think they're eating that diet anymore.
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ch4s3 1130 days ago
It seems like AN males used to have lower death rates from IVD than white males in the US, but as those rates dropped for white males they stayed the same for AN males.[1] This study is from a period where the AN male population over ~40 was still primarily eating a traditional diet. SO it seems like the traditional diet was better than mainstream diets from the 80s and 90s, but probably worse than a good diet today if I may extrapolate a bit.

[1] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.3402/ijch.v62i4.17579

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CyberDildonics 1132 days ago
Eskimos also would have no access to a good source of sugar, so attributing everything to a different type of meat is very myopic.
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