Its also why if I were to eat a diet consiting of 70% fat, I would die, whereas someone from an eskimo tribe would die without such a diet because thats how they live.
Actually, Vilhjalmur Stefansson was a (non-Inuit) Canadian who moved in with the eskimos, adopted their diet, and found that he survived just fine for years on their 70%-fat diet. Similarly, Weston A. Price studied the effects of a high-fat, whole-food diet on a variety of people from all parts of the world, and determined that the health benefits of such a diet were universal in nature. As final proof, my wife has actually lived with the Masai tribe of African plainsmen for two weeks, living nearly entirely on cow: steak, milk, and a drink made of cow blood, with maybe a few grams of gathered veggies and berries each day. I assure you, she's whiter and fatter than you are, but she came back feeling quite great.
People have a lot of mistaken ideas about how their bodies handle food. They should read this. (
http://www.scribd.com/doc/11329045/Understanding-Food) (Written by yours truly. It's work-safe, but the links in the document are broken.)
[EDIT: Bah, wrong forum...mods, could you please put this where it belongs? Thank you!]
