Guest guest Posted July 7, 2006 Report Share Posted July 7, 2006 more on the Chukchi diet.. http://arctan.org/nuhip/wp-article.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 7, 2006 Report Share Posted July 7, 2006 Hi Tony: That is interesting. Of course reindeer meat may constitute survivable nutrition, rather than optimal nutrition. It is possible they were not optimally healthy, or not optimally productive, on such a diet. One does wonder how they avoided scurvy. Rodney. > > I was reading about the Genographic project which uses genetic markers > to determine the origin and migration of humans. > > https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/atlas.html > > In the " Journey Highlights " it is mentioned that the male genetic > ancestor of all living humans, originated in Africa 60,000 years ago > in the area around Nairobi, Kenya. > > Something that seemed interesting: The Siberian Chukchi people lived > in an area devoid of edible vegetation and survived for thousands of > years eating only raindeer which fed off the lichen in the frozen thundra. > > Th Chukchi way of life has changed substantially due to the influence > of the Soviet Union. > > http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/croads/modchuk.html > > What I found fascinating was that to survive for thousands of years on > a diet of raindeer means that raindeer meat and by-products probably > provided all the essential nutrients needed by humans. It puts an > interesting twist on what is Optimum Nutrition. > > Tony > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 7, 2006 Report Share Posted July 7, 2006 Rodney, According to this, reindeer meat has plenty of vitamin C: " Laplanders Reindeer meat is the staple inside the Arctic circle because it provides more than just protein. Herded reindeer meat is 3-7 per cent higher in protein than domestic red meat. It has the lowest cholesterol levels of any red meat and has comparable saturated fat content to domestic white meat and fish. Because wild reindeer have a varied and nutrient-dense diet of moss, lichens and plants too tough for humans to digest their meat and marrow also carries more nutrients than domestic animals. In fact it's so plentiful in nutrients, such as vitamin C, that the indigenous Sami people of Lapland are able to live almost entirely off reindeer in the winter months. They crack open the bones for marrow and even mix reindeer blood into soups. " http://www.channel4.com/life/microsites/T/tbybc/healthycultures.html Diane > > > > I was reading about the Genographic project which uses genetic > markers > > to determine the origin and migration of humans. > > > > https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/atlas.html > > > > In the " Journey Highlights " it is mentioned that the male genetic > > ancestor of all living humans, originated in Africa 60,000 years ago > > in the area around Nairobi, Kenya. > > > > Something that seemed interesting: The Siberian Chukchi people lived > > in an area devoid of edible vegetation and survived for thousands of > > years eating only raindeer which fed off the lichen in the frozen > thundra. > > > > Th Chukchi way of life has changed substantially due to the > influence > > of the Soviet Union. > > > > http://www.mnh.si.edu/arctic/features/croads/m odchuk.html > > > > What I found fascinating was that to survive for thousands of years > on > > a diet of raindeer means that raindeer meat and by-products probably > > provided all the essential nutrients needed by humans. It puts an > > interesting twist on what is Optimum Nutrition. > > > > Tony > > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 20, 2006 Report Share Posted July 20, 2006 > > >Herded reindeer meat is 3-7 per cent higher in protein than domestic >red meat. It has the lowest cholesterol levels of any red meat and has >comparable saturated fat content to domestic white meat and fish. >Because wild reindeer have a varied and nutrient-dense diet of moss, >lichens and plants too tough for humans to digest their meat and >marrow also carries more nutrients than domestic animals. In fact it's >so plentiful in nutrients, such as vitamin C, that the indigenous Sami >people of Lapland are able to live almost entirely off reindeer in the >winter months. They crack open the bones for marrow and even mix >reindeer blood into soups. " Animal-centric diets are normal for indigenous people who live in the far north. You don't get a lot of sunlight in the winter months, so you're not going to get fresh vegetable matter in the winter. There is a surge of plant production in the summer, but storage and harvesting are problems. Animals do the harvesting and storage for you with minimal human labor inputs. You also get a net transfer of emergy (embedded energy) from animals that winter down south and come back up in the summer. Animals do thermalize most of the energy they consume, but there are some real ecological benefits in hunting and animal agriculture. I own two hill fields; PETA would have me till them and plant soybeans, or maybe plant GMO soybeans and spray them with glyphosate. Instead, I have a local farmer cut them for hay, which gets fed to our animals and his animals. The grass plants establish a network of roots that fight erosion and keep the hillside from falling down; we lime the fields occasionally, put a fraction of the manure back on the field (the other fraction goes on our vegetable gardens, fruit trees, etc.) and sometimes seed in clover. It's good for the soil structure, since natural processes are always breaking down the rock that's immediately below the soil, making more nutrients available. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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