how do people who live in arctic areas get enough vitamins?”
Although their diet is less than 2% vegetables, fruits and carbohydrates, much of the fish and meat they eat is uncooked. Cooking destroys many of the vitamins and minerals in meat, but uncooked they are apparently very rich. More below… — Dear Cecil: Why didn’t Eskimos get scurvy before citrus was introduced to their diet? They have a traditional diet of almost entirely meat and fish. Where did they get their vitamin C? –Kevin Carson, via the Internet Dear Kevin: This calls to mind a question I’ve dealt with before: Why do the Eskimos (or Inuit, as those in Canada and Greenland generally prefer to be called) stay there? It turns out that the people of the north have a highly evolved physiology that makes them well suited to life in the arctic: a compact build that conserves warmth, a faster metabolism, optimally distributed body fat, and special modifications to the circulatory system. One marvels at the adaptability of the human organism, of course, but still one has to ask: Wou
