Given the extreme meaty diet, don people in Mongolia suffer from obesity, high cholesterol, and other illnesses?
In tropical countries and for western office personnel, a low meat or even vegetarian diet can make sense and is certainly healthy. Given the extremely cold winter climate and the hard physical work of the Mongolian nomads, the energy supplied by animal fat is simply necessary for survival. The same is true eg. for the Eskimos. The mentioned civilicational illnesses practically don’t exist with mongols who practise a traditional livestyle. This makes it obvious that under the given conditions their diet is healthy and appropriate. The same nutritional promlems as know in the west only appear with city dwellers, who increasinly consume industrially processed food.
