14 Facts About Inuit cuisine

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Climate of the Arctic is ill-suited for agriculture and lacks forageable plant matter for much of the year, the traditional Inuit cuisine diet is lower in carbohydrates and higher in fat and animal protein compared to the global average.

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Inuit cuisine studied in the 1970s were found to have abnormally large livers, presumably to assist in this process.

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Inuit cuisine might consume more carbohydrates than most nutritionists have assumed.

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Furthermore, the blubber, organs, muscle and skin of the marine mammals that Inuit cuisine eat have significant glycogen stores, which assist those animals when oxygen is depleted on prolonged dives.

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However, actual evidence has shown that Inuit cuisine have a similar prevalence of coronary artery disease as non-Inuit cuisine populations and they have excessive mortality due to cerebrovascular strokes, with twice the risk to that of the North American population.

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6.

Inuit cuisine eat only two main meals a day, but it is common to eat many snacks every hour.

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Inuit cuisine are known for their practice of food sharing, a form of food distribution where one person catches the food and shares with the entire community.

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Inuit cuisine often are relentless in making known that they are not like in the sense that they do not eat the same food and they are communal with their food.

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Inuit cuisine believe that their diet has many benefits over the western food.

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10.

Inuit cuisine believe that eating raw meat keeps them warmer and stronger.

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One Inuk, Oleetoa, who ate a combination of and Inuit cuisine food, told of a story of his cousin Joanasee who ate a diet consisting of mostly raw Inuit cuisine food.

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The Inuit cuisine belief is that the combination of animal and human blood in one's bloodstream creates a healthy human body and soul.

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Inuit cuisine are under the belief that if they do not follow the alliances that their ancestors have laid out, the animals will disappear because they have been offended and will cease to reproduce.

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14.

Borre tells of a time when she saw an Inuit cuisine woman fall ill who blamed her sickness on the lack of seal in her diet.

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