>> Not too long ago, a list member asked why primitive non-agricultural peoples
>> adopt a modern diet (if their won diet and lifestyle is working for them).
>> It is not by choice. The biggest reason is pressures or coercison  by "white
>> man," including conversion to Christianity, removal and disconnection from
>> their land, and encroachment of civilization.
>>
>
>The Inuit are reported to have traded with explorers and sailors, exchanging
>meat for SAD food items.

and recall that the sickest of all were the missionaries themselves, who
lived on the tinned /processed  food