The “Eskimo diet” hypothesis, suggested as a factor in the alleged low incidence of coronary artery disease (CAD) in Greenland Eskimos, seems not to be supported in the literature, according to a ...

Over the past 25 years, Greenlanders have experienced a dramatic increase in cardiometabolic diseases, including type 2 ...

Scientists warned on Thursday that the long-term health of Inuit hunters in eastern Greenland was under threat, due to so-called "forever chemicals" in the atmosphere and their diet of polar bear and ...

Eskimos do not suffer from diabetes or cancer, rarely from hardening of the arteries. Yet they subsist almost entirely on meat. The possible relationship between such absence of disease and the ...

The first person to recommend a diet high in meat and fat for good health and low obesity was from North Dakota. Seventy-five years ago, long before the Atkins Diet or the South Beach Diet became ...

Tiff-Annie Kenny receives funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), the New Frontiers in Research Fund (CIHR), the Northern Contaminants Program, ArcticNet, Fonds de recherche du ...

There was an icy wind in the spring air when English chef-adventurer Mike Keen started out on a kayak journey up the coast of Greenland. From the harbor in Qaqortoq, cheered on by a crowd of around ...