Primitive Nutrition 27: The Eskimo Model, Part I

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[Anthony M]

You can't calculate if a diet is healthy based on a few people. Maybe they had osteoporosis because they were starving to death for god sake...

[Plant Positive]

No, this keeps turning up for them. And as I say in the video, I think their fatty diets are a part of the problem. "Dietary saturated fat intake is inversely associated with bone density in humans: analysis of NHANES III"

[shirehorse91]

He's grouping two paleo-Inuits with contemporary Inuits. This gives a false reading. If you really want to see disease and parasites you'll find it in the primitive vegetarians.

[Plant Positive]

A false reading? What does that mean? Give me some truth then, using the references, please.

Primitive vegetarians? What are you talking about?

[MNveg]

Dr. Eric Dewailly believes that cardiovascular disease is less common among the Inuit. However, he's not a confusionist, because he proceeds to talk about how wild animals are much lower in saturated fat, and higher in unsaturated fats including omega 3s. Whale blubber, one of the Inuit's staples, is almost entirely unsaturated. It seems like no matter what angle you approach this from, the Inuits cannot be used to argue for the safety of a high saturated fat diet.

[Plant Positive]

This used to be the Loren Cordain argument.

[Plant Positive]

What's sad to me is I don't make a nickel doing all this, and in fact this has cost me an awful lot. This was a big effort that monopolized all my free time for a while. You are being unreasonable when you say I should have done more. This was the best way to present all this. Think about it and you'll understand why.

The mummies completely refute Paleo claims that athero is caused by wheat, lectins, whatever. That's the value here,

[Plant Positive]

Again, we seem to be having communication challenges. You are talking about arterial remodeling. And your point is what, if not that atherosclerosis is fine?

MI and heart disease are not the same thing. You do realize that?

[Shamoo Frenulum]

This must be embarrassing for the Paleo dieters. Whenever a hunter-gatherer culture is shown to have disease, it's predictably (and often rightly) blamed on modern foods. However, that excuse cannot be used for the prehistoric Inuit.

[正 起]

thing we need to remember about so-called "bad fat" is actually "what-would-be-later-on" fact. the link between fat and ASVD　is what fat happens when it mixes with the reactive oxygen species in our body. when this happens the "fat" gets oxidized, this will likely cause ASVD and other cardio problems. and among omega-3 and other we-celled "good fat" will get oxidized easily and faster than saturated fat.

[SomaticCellCount]

And if you actually watched the full videos, you would see many studies on large numbers of Inuit, not just individual cases. This paper for example contains a reliable old testimonial that heart disease was quite common for them:

"Low incidence of cardiovascular disease among the Inuit--what is the evidence?"

[nibblet777]

Yeah, I was addressing a flaw in that one would need a control group that ate wheat and not whales and seals. This would mean you would have to get mummies from siberia or wherever, but that control would not falsify whether modern strains of wheat can cause artherosclerosis.

[nibblet777]

Nope, I said that I need more info.