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I took a class freshman year on ethnology of native American tribes. At one point the professor was talking about Athabaskan tribes and what they ate. Pretty m
by mythrwy 5y ago
I took a class freshman year on ethnology of native American tribes.
At one point the professor was talking about Athabaskan tribes and what they ate. Pretty much all animal, especially during winter.
So I asked him how that worked, because according to health authorities we were supposed to be eating 5 fruits and vegetables a day. His response was they ate a lot of part that we don't usually eat from animals in modern times. Organ meats and even the contents of the stomach. Which presumably covered what was nutritionally needed.
- NikolaeVarius 5y agoNot just that. Its the fact that much nutrition breaks down in a short period of time. If you eat it fresh, you can salvage the required vitamins and nutrients before it goes away
- s1artibartfast 5y agoThis is also the case of the Native American in the far north AKA Eskimos, where their diet consisted largely on Seafood protein. They would eat a lot of the Bissell route to get important trace nutrients that were necessary in their protein-rich diet.