Fish, fishy, and fish adjacent - by Heather Heying

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Why eat like an Inuit when you can pop a pill

In 1913, the people living on the northwest coast of Greenland were described as “probably the most exquisitely carnivorous people on earth1.” They subsisted almost entirely on the meat of whales, seals, seabirds, and fish, of which the dominant species were halibut, capelin, and salmon. They ate almost no carbohydrates at all. And yet, they thrived. More than half a century later, in 1971, researchers found that these same people had extremely low levels of heart disease, and no diabetes at all. Rather than engaging in collective hand-wringing about how people with such awful diets could…

Fish, fishy, and fish adjacent - by Heather Heying

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