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SunnyExpat said:
I agree entirely, I'm sure Inuits are unlikely to grow enough vegetables to survive on as a race.
But the species seems to be adaptable to the conditions it finds itself in, fortunately.
Then again, a rapid transplant of an equatorial dweller to the Inuit habitation may not be immediately successful, so possibly the species also has a margin for diversification throughout the millennia.
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Westerner explorers who lived for extended periods of time in the Arctic in the last few centuries did just fine when they adopted the Inuit way of life (diet, clothing, shelter, etc.). Interestingly, the Inuit took the warm humid climate with them. Inside their fur clothing and shelters it was quite steamy. They slept naked in their igloos as it was quite warm inside.
 
NoCrbs4Me said:
Westerner explorers who lived for extended periods of time in the Arctic in the last few centuries did just fine when they adopted the Inuit way of life (diet, clothing, shelter, etc.). Interestingly, the Inuit took the warm humid climate with them. Inside their fur clothing and shelters it was quite steamy. They slept naked in their igloos as it was quite warm inside.
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Must have different ice to us.
Steamy ice seems like an excellent concept, although to be fair, I guess we have rain too.
 
It is a bit off topic, to be fair, but it is an interesting concept.
Inside an Inuit shelter, which is an igloo, made of frozen water, you claim it's as warm as as tropical jungle, and they sleep naked?

It would be good to get that sort of ice here, as the type I have very quickly melts in my G&T, which is actually in something similar in temperature to a tropical jungle.
 
SunnyExpat said:
It is a bit off topic, to be fair, but it is an interesting concept.
Inside an Inuit shelter, which is an igloo, made of frozen water, you claim it's as warm as as tropical jungle, and they sleep naked?

It would be good to get that sort of ice here, as the type I have very quickly melts in my G&T, which is actually in something similar in temperature to a tropical jungle.
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The igloos you're thinking of are the ones made of snow that are just temporary shelters built while travelling or on hunting expeditions. The more permanent houses were made of wood or bone holding up hides. The snow structures were temporary, so they would melt a bit on the inside from the whale oil lamps heating the inside, but they'd only be used for a short time.
 
Back to the business of BG rising on a LCHF diet, there is something called physiological insulin resistance and it's generally considered to be benign. I think I've posted these links before, but if anyone wants to read them, I'm posting them again - long, scientific explanation of how it works by Peter/Hyperlipid:

http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.co.uk/2007/10/physiological-insulin-resistance.html
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.co.uk/2008/05/physiological-insulin-resistance-2-dawn.html
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.co.uk/2008/08/physiological-insulin-resistance.html
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/physiological-insulin-resistance.html
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/physiological-insulin-resistance-wild.html
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.co.uk/2008/09/terminator.html
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/physiological-insulin-resistance-and.html
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/chewing-fat.html
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.co.uk/2009/09/physiological-insulin-restisance-guess.html
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/physiological-insulin-resistance.html

Good luck :)
 
SunnyExpat said:
Traditional Inuit diets derive approximately 50% of their calories from fat, 30-35% from protein and 15-20% of their calories from carbohydrates.
It has been suggested that because the fats of the Inuit's wild-caught game are largely monounsaturated and rich in omega-3 fatty acids, the diet does not pose the same health risks as a typical Western high-fat diet
(but google could be wrong)
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It seems that the life expectancy of the Iniuit is approximately nine years less than the average North American
 
SunnyExpat said:
. . . . . . many on here notice an upwards drift in BG on LCHF, so it's not surprising .
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Really? I'm assuming then that it's the HF bit that does it. My personal experience was that after lowering my carbs to 80 gms per day, or there abouts, not increasing my fats, so low fat, my BG dropped enough for me to sling out Gliclazide and Januvia and my total cholesterol dropped enough for me not to worry so much about ditching statins.
 
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