Sentences with phrase «among eskimos»

The large amount of fermented food, easy to digest and contributing to the health of intestinal flora, is the most likely explanation for this phenomena - fermented dairy products in European groups and fermented fish among the Eskimos accomplish the same results.

The main objects of the experiments were to learn whether detectable ketosis exists among Eskimos under natural dietary conditions; the extent to which ketosis develops in fasting and the rate at which it disappears on glucose ingestion; the «carbohydrate tolerance» as indicated by blood sugar curves; and to determine the respiratory metabolism during and after a ketosis - producing fast.

Several researchers have reported that a diet of lean meat leads to nausea in three days, symptoms of starvation and ketosis in 7 - 10 days, severe debilitation in 12 days and possibly death in a few weeks.21 Vilhjalmur Stefansson lived for many years among the Eskimos and thrived in a diet that was 20 percent protein and 80 percent fat.22 When he and his colleagues tried to eat lean meat, they quickly developed diarrhea and a lack of energy.

In a 1972 article, «Mental Illness, Biology, and Culture,» published in the book Psychological Anthropology, Alfred Wallace hypothesized that hypocalcemic tetany from low levels of calcium and vitamin D underlied a phenomenon of hysteria found among Eskimos called pibloktok.

Not exact matches

We should learn our lessons about how to prevent cancer not from the subtle distinctions between various states of disease we observe in our own society but from groups like the Torres Strait Islanders, the Eskimos and the North American Indians whose physicians went decades at a time unable to find a single case of cancer among them.

Price actually published a paper on this subject, «Acid - Base Balance of Diets Which Produce Immunity to Dental Caries Among the South Sea Islanders and Other Primitive Races,» 25 in which he compares the amount of acid ash and alkaline ash minerals in the diets of primitive Swiss, Gaellics, Eskimos, native Americans and South Sea Islanders.

Although we will never be able to ascertain the life expectancy of the primitive peoples he studied, Price noted great longevity among certain groups, such as the Eskimos and the South Sea Islanders.

Two narratives — one historical, one nearly contemporary — make up this intricate novel set among the Iñupiaq Eskimos in Alaska's far northern territories.