Good dental health (as Weston Price noted), but otherwise not particularly healthy among populations eating traditional diets. Some resources:
Fortuine, R. (1969). Characteristics of cancer in the Eskimos of southwestern Alaska. Cancer, 23(2), 468-474.
Young, T. K., Moffatt, M. E., & O'Neil, J. D. (1993). Cardiovascular diseases in a Canadian Arctic population. American journal of public health, 83(6), 881-887.
Zimmerman, M. R. (1993). The paleopathology of the cardiovascular system.Texas Heart Institute Journal, 20(4), 252.
Bjerregaard, P., Young, T. K., & Hegele, R. A. (2003). Low incidence of cardiovascular disease among the Inuit—what is the evidence?.Atherosclerosis, 166(2), 351-357.
Ebbesson, S. O., Risica, P. M., Ebbesson, L. O., & Kennish, J. M. (2005). Eskimos have CHD despite high consumption of omega-3 fatty acids: the Alaska Siberia project. International journal of circumpolar health, 64(4).
Eilat-Adar, S., Mete, M., Nobmann, E. D., Xu, J., Fabsitz, R. R., Ebbesson, S. O., & Howard, B. V. (2009). Dietary patterns are linked to cardiovascular risk factors but not to inflammatory markers in Alaska Eskimos. The Journal of nutrition, jn-109.
Jamieson, J. A., & Kuhnlein, H. V. (2008). The paradox of anemia with high meat intake: a review of the multifactorial etiology of anemia in the Inuit of North America. Nutrition reviews, 66(5), 256-271.
Howard, B. V., Comuzzie, A., Devereux, R. B., Ebbesson, S. O., Fabsitz, R. R., Howard, W. J., ... & Wenger, C. R. (2010). Cardiovascular disease prevalence and its relation to risk factors in Alaska Eskimos. Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, 20(5), 350-358.
Fodor, J. G., Helis, E., Yazdekhasti, N., & Vohnout, B. (2014). “Fishing” for the Origins of the “Eskimos and Heart Disease” Story: Facts or Wishful Thinking?.Canadian Journal of Cardiology, 30(8), 864-868.
From the last paper:
In 1940, A. Bertelsen, a Danish doctor that practiced for many years in Greenland, described frequent occurrence of CAD in this Inuit population. Bertelsen’s report, which was written in Danish and published in a book with limited circulation, was largely ignored. More recently, a number of studies have confirmed what Bertelsen ascertained more than 70 years ago, i.e. that the prevalence of CAD among Eskimos in Greenland and other Inuit populations in Canada and the US is similar or higher compared to that of non-Eskimo/Caucasian populations
Edited by Darryl, 06 March 2015 - 06:30 PM.