When food is abundant, “a healthy Eskimo living under primitive conditions will eat 5 to 10 pounds of meat a day.” Trappers rely on caribou and dried buffalo meat. Hunters eat seal ...

“I eat fifty-fifty,” she explains, half traditional, half regular American. No one, not even residents of the northernmost villages on Earth, eats an entirely traditional northern diet anymore. Even ...

They make us feel the same as they have for generations. “When I eat Inuit foods, I know who I am.” Unexpected Poisons In 1987, Dr. Eric Dewailly, an epidemiologist at Laval University in ...

As he wrote proudly to his fiancee, "I am now truly like an Eskimo. . . . I scarcely eat any European foodstuffs any longer but am living entirely on seal meat." He was particularly intrigued ...

Explorers in the 1900's encountered Eskimo's and noted that they lived primarily on animal proteins and fats. No vegetables or fruits grow in the north. They also noticed that the Eskimos were quite ...

eating some of its liver while it was still warm, as his ancestors have done for centuries—the hunter's reward. Such scenes are common around the hugely isolated Inuit community of ...