On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 10:49:51 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>On 2017-01-11 10:25 AM, Bruce wrote:
>> On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 09:34:02 -0500, Dave Smith
>> > wrote:
>
>>>> The Inuit may do other things that make them live long (do they live
>>>> long?) Maybe it's not so much the sweet potato that helped the
>>>> Okinokonaki as the fact that the sweet potato replaced a lot of grains
>>>> such as rice.
>>>
>>> The Inuit do not live longer than the rest of us. Their life expectancy
>>> is about 10 years shorter than the average Canadian and that is a big
>>> improvement because back in the 1940s it was 29 years.
>>
>> So seal blubber isn't a superfood.
>>
>I can't say that it ever appealed to me. I guess we can follow
>Lucretia's advice for pork belly and cook it to render out *all* the fat.
>
>Fat was always an important part of the diet of the native people of the
>north. A few years ago I read a book that was the translated memoirs of
>an Innu hunter, and was sort of grossed out by his telling of taking a
>can of bear fat and eating it straight. Apparently their bodies have
>adapted to a diet that it high in fat and low in carbohydrates. There
>are some special challenges to natives because the switch to high carb
>and high salt and sugar and alcohol has led to high rates of type II
>diabetes.

But they're not getting very old on their fat diets either.