On Mon, 19 Jul 1999, Mary wrote:

> Did Inuit eat blueberries or other fruit? Are antioxidants truly essential?
> Just wondering as I seem to recall that they ate meat/fish/fat only and had
> no degenerative disease.

There was recently a post on the lowcarb tech list indicating
research that suggests that ketosis causes increases free radical
formation, and consequently increased free radical damage.
Perhaps this would account for Weston Price's impression that the
Inuit, who would be in ketosis a great deal of the time, seemed
prematurely aged.

Todd Moody
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