From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue May 06 2003 - 20:35:03 MDT
Gary Miller wrote:
> What about the Eskimos eating whale blubber? I'm assuming
> they've done that since the last ice age. Or is blubber
> different Omega fat than beef or chicken fat?
Tricky thing about Eskimos: despite their primitive life-styles, they are
not properly defined as paleolithic.
Most estimates are that humans did not cross the Bering Straight into the
Americas until about 15,000 years ago, more or less. This immigration was
very recent on an evolutionary time-scale. All indigenous American natives
are non-paleolithic.
The Eskimo diet is however excellent evidence that modern humans can do well
on a diet rich in animal foods and (natural) animal fats.
-gts
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