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The data on their life expectancy shows it was far lower than average. What caused this? Was it heart disease? Infant mortality? Something else? Did they live long enough on average to get heart disease? The inuits eat more of a western diet now so getting data on their traditional diet must be difficult.

In any case, we don't have enough data to justify them as a data point supporting high saturated fat diets.



What data are you looking at?

Consider also the Minnesota Coronary Experiment which violates this connection: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/records-found-in-...




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