On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, matesz wrote:

> Reply:
> According to Vilhjalmur Stefansson, an anthropologist who lived with the
> primitive Inuit for several years, Inuit on average live at least 10 years
> less than Americans, and Inuit women ³usually seem as old at sixty as our
> women do at eighty.²(11) Systemic acidity is responsible for their rapid
> rate of aging.

I know we discussed this before, but I think there has been
fairly recent research indicating the one of the downsides of
ketosis is escalated free radical production.  If the free
radical theory of aging is even partly right, this would
contribute to their premature aging.

At one time I had some other references concerning the premature
aging of the Inuit, but I seem to have lost them.  Ah well,
premature aging isn't just for the Inuit.

Todd Moody
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