On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 06:37:36 +1100, Jeßus > wrote:

>On Thu, 12 Jan 2017 02:25:31 +1100, Bruce >
>wrote:
>
>>On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 09:34:02 -0500, Dave Smith
> wrote:
>>
>>>On 2017-01-11 5:39 AM, Bruce wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 21:36:45 +1100, Jeßus > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> On Wed, 11 Jan 2017 11:30:31 +1100, Bruce >
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> There you go. You say they lived long because they had hard lives.
>>>>>> Lucretia thinks it's because of the fat (that they actually ate little
>>>>>> off in those days). I'm guessing it's because of low fat and sweet
>>>>>> potato. We can all have our own party thanks to these people.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Yes. The Inuit are well known for scoffing down tons of sweet potato.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>
>Because they are mostly eating all the wrong things in a western diet,
>seal blubber has nothing to do with it. Very few have eaten a truly
>traditional diet in the 20th century.

Dave says that when they did eat their traditional stuff, they died
even younger.