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by BurningFrog 1133 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 1131 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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