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Originally Posted by MJK
The Inuit survived on a majority meat diet for thousands of years. There are no farms, no fresh veggies, no fruit trees. They ate meat, cooked and raw, and survived.
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Life expectancy among the Inuit is also very low compared to the rest of Canada. Now before you jump on me and suggest it is more than a diet based answer, I would tell you I concur. Poor housing, high risk lifestyles, etc also contribute, but I dont think you can discount the diet aspect either, an all protein diet must be a contributor.
In 1991, life expectancy in the Inuit-inhabited areas was about 68 years, 10 years less than for Canada as a whole. From 1991 to 2001, life expectancy in the Inuit-inhabited areas did not increase, although life expectancy rose by about two years for Canada overall.
Among the four areas, life expectancy was generally highest in the Inuvialuit region and Nunavut, followed by Nunatsiavut and Nunavik.
The findings for the Inuit-inhabited areas do not distinguish life expectancy for Inuit from that of non-Inuit people. However, if the life expectancy of the non-Inuit population (who make up about 20% of the population in the four areas combined) is assumed to be the same as in the rest of Canada, then, taking into account the relative population sizes of each group, the life expectancy of Inuit residents would have been 64.2 years, or 15 years less than for Canada as a whole.