IIRC, he theorized that women aged more rapidly than men because they remained primarily indoors in very warm dwellings.
Maybe they didn't get enough sunlight?
Kathy
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From: Adrienne Smith <[log in to unmask]>
>
...Stephansson hypothesized that the Eskimo women had a
> prematurely aged appearance and I think that is partly subjective (no make-up),
> partly
> because of the harsh climate and largely because of the regular ingestion of
> spoiled fish. They also ate plenty of caribou and boiled fish -- but
> Stephansson rights about the spoiled fish delicacy. One last thing -- Ross
> Horne
> advocated an all-fruit diet. So I take anything he has to say with a grain of
> salt...on my hunk of fatty meat of course.
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