On Wed, 18 Aug 1999, Mary wrote:

> I read in one of Ray's recommended books, I think it was CANCER DISEASE OF
> CIVILIZATION, that Inuit would be in excellent physical condition on all
> meat/fish/fat even with no exercise....in other words, you never got out of
> physical shape /condition on this diet....even if you had not run for
> months, you would still be in good physical condition, you did not get "out
> of shape" ever.

Note also, however, that the researchers at Bellevue described
Stefansson himself as "remarkably flabby."

For the record, I regard the idea that diet alone -- *any* diet
-- can bring about excellent physical fitness without exercise as
utter rubbish.  I would need to see a *lot* more evidence beyond
Stefansson's comments before I would believe this.  And I rather
doubt that the Inuit that he observed led sedentary lives.

Todd Moody
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