scrapking said:
I dove into your link in more detail, and there's something important: the study it's based on is false. The Danish researchers didn't actually examine the cardiovascular status of the Greenland Inuit, they simply accepted as fact that the anecdotal evidence they'd heard was true (as chronicled here: http://nutritionfacts.org/video/omega-3s-and-the-eskimo-fish-tale/). They published no medical reports on the Greenland Inuit they studied, because there were no tests. Whether they were deliberately falsifying data, or just doing bad science due to incompetence, the world may never know. This makes sense, as the results they published flew in the face of all other published data that was actually based on the scientific method. We've looked at mummified inuit, and they were suffering atherosclerosis/heart disease, so it never made sense for that not to also be true in Greenland. But to learn that the Danish researchers published junk science explains it. The author of the link you sent me has no such excuse, and says things like "I believe there’s limited scientific evidence that this will help us avoid heart disease," with no suggestion as to why the author believes that the enduring scientific consensus is wrong. The entire article is based upon 40 year old assumptions that were never tested and almost certainly were never true. |
It's not as clear as you make it sound, the understanding either way is not there yet
http://cardiobrief.org/2016/07/29/changes-in-eskimo-diet-linked-to-increase-in-heart-disease/
