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What the Inuit can tell us about omega-3 fats and 'paleo' diets
Berkeley News ^ | September 17, 2015 | Robert Sanders

Posted on 09/27/2015 12:44:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv

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A village on the coast of Greenland, where the native Inuit population traditionally ate diets high in omega-3 fats. Over thousands of years, they developed genetic mutations that allowed them to remain healthy despite the fatty diet, but this adaptation had other consequences, such as short height. (Photo by Malik Milfeldt)

A village on the coast of Greenland, where the native Inuit population traditionally ate diets high in omega-3 fats. Over thousands of years, they developed genetic mutations that allowed them to remain healthy despite the fatty diet, but this adaptation had other consequences, such as short height. (Photo by Malik Milfeldt)

1 posted on 09/27/2015 12:44:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv

https://youtu.be/bU6Cwz4iGDg


2 posted on 09/27/2015 3:26:50 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan (Beau Biden's funeral, attended by Bp. Malooly, Card. McCarrick, and Papal Nuncio, Abp. Vigano.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Better version:

https://youtu.be/Sfes9gs9qZg


3 posted on 09/27/2015 3:28:08 AM PDT by Arthur McGowan (Beau Biden's funeral, attended by Bp. Malooly, Card. McCarrick, and Papal Nuncio, Abp. Vigano.)
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To: SunkenCiv
FTA " . . .some of the clearest evidence to date that human populations are actually adapted . . ."

I kind of knew this by the time I was in Kindergarten.

Lot of people around the planet, doing different things, in differing climates, facing unique challenges.

Maybe we turn out a little different from each other?
Now there's a scientific breakthrough. /s
4 posted on 09/27/2015 5:43:27 AM PDT by Macoozie ("Estoy votando por Ted 2016!" bumper stickers available)
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To: SunkenCiv

***but this adaptation had other consequences, such as short height.***

But wait! I read years ago that the Inuit were short because EVOLUTION was making them short to conserve body heat!
So why haven’t they all froze to death before they got short!


5 posted on 09/27/2015 6:02:41 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: SunkenCiv
This reads like a vegan propaganda piece.

For the scientists, once more all together now, “correlation is not causation”.

They needed to study the diets of Pleistocene Europeans. They'd find that the euros had diets similar to the Eskimos AND were larger in body size. Body size is consistently correlated to latitude not diet. People at the equator and at very northern latitudes are small.

What I find odd is that this exact idea (about diet being exclusive to certain groups) was proposed a hundred years ago or more. It was studied then too. The result....a European man was able to live and perform the same way as the Eskimos while eating the Eskimos diet.

6 posted on 09/27/2015 6:04:51 AM PDT by Varda
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Any human or other sentient animal that believes a single word of this claptrap is obviously suffering from accelerated gray matter shrinkage caused by omega 3 deficiency. The higher an animal is on the food chain the more omega 3 the animal is adapted to require in it’s diet. This week google news features an article about ONE teenage girl who was diagnosed with liver damage after drinking green tea. Maybe two billion adults drink tea daily for decades and no one has previously noticed any significant patterns in liver damage and green tea. Evil people will spend huge amounts of money to pay underemployed wannabe scientists to speak untruths via culpable media.


7 posted on 09/27/2015 6:38:59 AM PDT by kruss3
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“The higher an animal is on the food chain the more omega 3 the animal is adapted to require”

Yep, high omega 3 intake is associated with eating wild animals or domestic ones on a grain free diet.


8 posted on 09/27/2015 7:10:14 AM PDT by Varda
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9 posted on 09/27/2015 3:04:55 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: SunkenCiv

A more useful study would have been to examine the effects on individuals of European ancestry who have lived among the Inuit for most of their lives and eaten their diet.


10 posted on 09/27/2015 3:22:40 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (I'll vote for Jeb when Terri Schiavo endorses him.)
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Thanks C2J.


11 posted on 09/27/2015 3:54:21 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: SunkenCiv

Cholesterol is the wrong fight, wrong battlefield.


12 posted on 09/28/2015 3:14:57 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: SunkenCiv

You have to try a traditional Norwegian smorgasbord to get an idea of the diet of those folks who live in the Great White North.

I sampled one once, and tried the main entrée, whale steak. It tasted like liver marinated in fish oil.

I’d rather die than live on that. Give me Tex-Mex every day and you’ll see a happy man.


13 posted on 09/28/2015 10:38:48 AM PDT by wildbill (If you check behind the shower curtain for a murderer, and find one.... what's yoIur plan?)
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To: wildbill

Whale meat again, don’t know how, don’t know when...


14 posted on 09/28/2015 12:02:07 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: SunkenCiv

I cannot stand the smell or taste of fish no matter how fresh. I had my first and last at three.


15 posted on 09/28/2015 3:32:27 PM PDT by Little Bill (EVICT Queen Jean)
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Preference for fish can probably be measured on a sliding scale. /rimshot


16 posted on 09/29/2015 12:45:10 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW)
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To: Macoozie
With that in mind, consider a government which tries to set the diet for all people, regardless of genetics, with the same requirements. Different populations over generations adapted to specific diets found primarily in their region. You ate differently if you were a Chippewa Indian than someone from the coast, for instance. If your ancestors thrived on a diet of red meat, why wouldn't you?

Yet the Government consistently hammers round pegs into square holes without regard for ancestral diets which developed over hundreds, if not thousands of years (the most successful on those diets lived to procreate and flourish, those not adapted died out).

17 posted on 09/29/2015 12:53:58 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Little Bill

Lutefisk just isn’t for you...


18 posted on 09/29/2015 12:55:09 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Arthur McGowan

The traditional Inuit diet in Greenland consumes far less plant material than other similar “paleo” groups. For some reason people assume paleo means just eating animals.... It doesn’t.


19 posted on 09/29/2015 7:24:04 PM PDT by Katya (Homo Nosce Te Ipsum)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

the taller ones froze to death before they passed on their genes...


20 posted on 09/30/2015 3:30:52 AM PDT by Cronos (ObamaÂ’s dislike of Assad is not based on AssadÂ’s brutality but that he isn't a jihadi Moslem)
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