Sinclair cites a number of references and accounts of
the Eskimos consuming between 8 to 10 pounds of meat per day (which is quite easy to do when raw meat is consumed... it's cooked meat that is difficult to eat in large quantities).
Reports show that
Eskimos consuming their native diets obtain about 80 percent of their calories from fat, with the remainder primarily from protein and very little from carbohydrates.
Not exact matches
Rink made estimations on the macronutrient levels based on the amount of annual food consumption, including those imports, and if one excludes the imported bread, barley, peas and sugar from the table, he guessed that the
Eskimos were getting 33g of carbs / day from their seal and whale flesh alone (the fresh skin in particular was rich in glycogen and they would often
consume it quickly as it arrived onshore).
Eskimos that
consumed 8 to 10 pounds of meat per day would have obtained considerable amounts of glycogen, especially if they
consumed marine mammals.
Eskimos actually
consume more carbohydrates than most nutritionists have assumed.
Eskimos traditionally
consumed a diet of mostly whale blubber.
The Inuit (
Eskimos) of Greenland have only 3 to 4 times as much mercury in their bodies, even though they
consume about 100 times as much mercury, PCBs, and other marine pollutants as the average American.