Ken Stuart posted:
>>However, if you look at the Inuit hunter-gatherer diet, there is not much to
gather, and the diet is undoubtedly less varied than the modern diet, yet
the Inuits are free from diseases of civilization.

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. 

Historically primitive Inuit are documented practically immune to heart
disease, but this may be only because most do not live long enough; coronary
heart disease typically strikes people after the age of 60. Inuit also
suffer a high incidence of bleeding disorders from excessive intake of
polyunsaturated fish oils.

Don & Rachel Matesz,
authors of the Practically Primtive Dieet & Cookbook (Jan. 2003)