The traditional Greenland lifestyle is one of hunting and fishing - most important, the hunting of seals. Now scientists have discovered that the Inuit diet of seal and fish protets them against some of the big evils of Western civilization because these foods contain a lifesaving fatty acid known as omega-3. Researchers in Louisiana conducting the largest-ever study of arteriosclerosis say the evidence shows that the Inuit in Greenland suffers less from the disease, and they suggest Westerners might consider modifying their own eating habits accordingly.
April 05, 2006
Foot for thought
The traditional Greenland lifestyle is one of hunting and fishing - most important, the hunting of seals. Now scientists have discovered that the Inuit diet of seal and fish protets them against some of the big evils of Western civilization because these foods contain a lifesaving fatty acid known as omega-3. Researchers in Louisiana conducting the largest-ever study of arteriosclerosis say the evidence shows that the Inuit in Greenland suffers less from the disease, and they suggest Westerners might consider modifying their own eating habits accordingly.
