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To: Islander7

Can that be true? Inuit (Eskimos) have lived on an all-meat diet for millenia.


4 posted on 10/19/2010 4:10:09 PM PDT by squarebarb
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To: squarebarb
Not really. While they did not cultivate plants they did gather wild plants and eat them. It was not a huge part of their diet but they did eat some plants.

Their diet was also very high in fat. When you eat pure protein without fat or with very little fat you end up with protein poisoning. However it was something that the Inuit used to face in the late winter.

11 posted on 10/19/2010 4:20:22 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (When all you have is bolt cutters & vodka everything looks like the lock on Wolf Blitzer's boathouse)
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