[lbo-talk] High fat diet makes you stupid and lazy

Somebody Somebody philos_case at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 13 07:57:56 PDT 2009


The pre-modern Inuit had appallingly high mortality rates like any other hunter-gatherer society:


>From V. Steffanson, Cancer: A Disease of Civilization?

Moravian Church in Labrador

and the Russian Church in Alaska,1822-36 inclusive. Presented as numbers of people for each range of age of death:

Aleuts, Unalaska district

Died ages 1-4 -- 92

Died ages 4-7 -- 17

Died ages 7-15 -- 41

Died ages 15-25 -- 41

Died ages 25-45 -- 103

Died ages 45-55 -- 66

Died ages 55-60 -- 29

Died ages 60-65 -- 22

Died ages 65-70 -- 24

Died ages 70-75 -- 23

Died ages 75-80 -- 11

Died ages 80-90 -- 20

Died ages 90-100 -- 2

Labrador Eskimos

Died under 10 -- 29

Died ages 11-15 -- 9

Died ages 16-20 -- 4

Died ages 21-25 -- 6

Died ages 26-30 -- 7

Died ages 46-50 -- 10

Died ages 51-55 -- 10

Died ages 56-60 -- 4

Died ages 61-65 -- 4

Died ages 66-70 -- 8

Died ages 71-75 -- 4

Died age 79 -- 1

Labrador

1860 to 1879 -- 150 births, of which:

Died under 5 -- 79

Died age 5-10 -- 5

Died 10-60 -- 30

Died 61-81 -- 30

Died after 81 -- 1

Cape Chidley, of those (n=41) born between 1902 and 1922, inclusive.

Still living, at ages between 48 and 58, were 21.



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