RE: The Arctic - A freezing-cold part of Earth and more on the survival of the inuit people

[tobixen]

When the inuits are eating no vegetables, how do they avoid the scurvy?

I've heard two different explainations for this.

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[logic42]

Wish I had a more detailed explanation for that, but from what I gathered, meats like the seal, muktuk (skin of the beluga whales) , poler bear livers when they are lucky was a good source of vitamin C, I think that had helped in Surviving the scurvy, if you care to share some information on that, would be glad :)

[tobixen]

Reindeer/caribou is one of the things keeping many nothern people going, I heard that they ate all of the deer, including the contents of the stomach - broken-down lichen, rich in vitamin C.

Then later I also heard that raw meat may contain some vitamin C, which is lost during cooking.

Wikipedia says:

(...) adequate vitamin C could be obtained from items in their traditional diet of raw meat such as ringed seal liver and whale skin (muktuk). While there was considerable skepticism when he reported these findings, they have been borne out in recent studies and analyses

[logic42]

Reindeer/caribou is one of the things keeping many nothern people going, I heard that they ate all of the deer, including the contents of the stomach

All in the need for survival, no wonder they are call them the Eskimos, checked up and it came from the meaning "eaters of raw meat" , but that's all in the quest for survival