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msluyter correctly points to the Inuits as a good case against what you've said. Their diet consists pretty much entirely fat and meat yet they have lower hear
by TomGullen 14y ago
msluyter correctly points to the Inuits as a good case against what you've said. Their diet consists pretty much entirely fat and meat yet they have lower heart disease and rates of cancer.
http://www.theiflife.com/the-inuit-paradox-high-fat-lower-heart-disease-and-cancer/ http://www.theiflife.com/the-inuit-paradox-high-fat-lower-he...
Pretty strange how their not keeling over from heart disease! Perhaps the traditional view of fat is wrong.
Highly recommend you watch this amazing lecture by Garry Taubes at Google:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6vpFV6Wkl4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6vpFV6Wkl4
He also brings a lot of other eye opening case studies to light such as obesity in Pima Indians during a famine.
- Aloisius 14y agoOh not those studies again. Those studies are wonderful until you get to the fact that the Inuit have the shortest life expectancy of any other Canadian group - upwards of 15 years shorter. So of course you find less heart disease in that group. They're dying of TB, diabetes (of all things) and suicide long before they get heart disease.
- TomGullen 14y ago"Analysis of the 2001 Census data revealed lower levels of education and income and poorer housing conditions for the Inuit-inhabited areas compared with Canada as a whole. Any or all of these, in addition to lifestyle risk factors and environmental conditions, could be at least partly responsible for the lower life expectancy in those areas. In the three five-year periods studied, from 1989 through 2003, the infant mortality rate was approximately four times higher in the Inuit-inhabited areas, compared with all of Canada." http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/080123/dq080123d-eng.htm http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/080123/dq080123d-en...