Posted on 09/27/2015 12:44:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
The traditional diet of Greenland natives -- the Inuit -- is held up as an example of how high levels of omega-3 fatty acids can counterbalance the bad health effects of a high-fat diet, but a new study hints that what's true for the Inuit may not be true for everyone else...
Those genetic mutations, found in nearly 100 percent of the Inuit, are found in a mere 2 percent of Europeans and 15 percent of Han Chinese, which means that these groups would synthesize omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids differently from the Inuit...
These genetic mutations in the Inuit have more widespread effects. They lower "bad" LDL cholesterol and fasting insulin levels, presumably protecting against cardiovascular disease and diabetes. They also have a significant effect on height, because growth is in part regulated by a person's fatty acid profile. The researchers found that the mutations causing shorter height in the Inuit are also associated with shorter height in Europeans...
Nielsen noted that this is some of the clearest evidence to date that human populations are actually adapted to particular diets; that is, they differ in the way they physiologically respond to diets. Just as genome sequencing can lead to personalized medicine tailored to an individual's specific set of genes, so too may a person's genome dictate a personalized diet...
Nielsen and his colleagues at UC Berkeley and in Greenland and Denmark came to their conclusions after analyzing the genomes of 191 Greenlanders with a low admixture of European genes (less than 5 percent) and comparing them to the genomes of 60 Europeans and 44 Han Chinese.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.berkeley.edu ...
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.
Any human or other sentient animal that believes a single word of this claptrap is obviously suffering from accelerated gray matter shrinkage caused by omega 3 deficiency. The higher an animal is on the food chain the more omega 3 the animal is adapted to require in it’s diet. This week google news features an article about ONE teenage girl who was diagnosed with liver damage after drinking green tea. Maybe two billion adults drink tea daily for decades and no one has previously noticed any significant patterns in liver damage and green tea. Evil people will spend huge amounts of money to pay underemployed wannabe scientists to speak untruths via culpable media.
“The higher an animal is on the food chain the more omega 3 the animal is adapted to require”
Yep, high omega 3 intake is associated with eating wild animals or domestic ones on a grain free diet.
A more useful study would have been to examine the effects on individuals of European ancestry who have lived among the Inuit for most of their lives and eaten their diet.
Thanks C2J.
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.
Whale meat again, don’t know how, don’t know when...
I cannot stand the smell or taste of fish no matter how fresh. I had my first and last at three.
Preference for fish can probably be measured on a sliding scale. /rimshot
Yet the Government consistently hammers round pegs into square holes without regard for ancestral diets which developed over hundreds, if not thousands of years (the most successful on those diets lived to procreate and flourish, those not adapted died out).
Lutefisk just isn’t for you...
The traditional Inuit diet in Greenland consumes far less plant material than other similar “paleo” groups. For some reason people assume paleo means just eating animals.... It doesn’t.
the taller ones froze to death before they passed on their genes...
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