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)
***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!
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.
Cholesterol is the wrong fight, wrong battlefield.
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.
