Eskimo and Inuit

Please don’t call me Eskimo and Inuit is the correct name for my people.

A story about real food and northern culture. The Inuit people are now a part of my world. After watching online videos, DVDs and reading their news, I appreciate these people that live in the North. Both of these names are still used today Eskimo and Inuit, and the moment I was told about the mistake of calling them an Eskimo I spoke only the name Inuit.

I am grateful for what I learned and it was eye-opening to see how the Inuit were first treated – given a number because it was easier than calling them by their true names.

The Inuit people know of a simple way of living, of being connected to mother earth and in a relationship with the creatures that inhabit it. They were happy, healthy, and not without hardship as the movies depict. When my electricity went out two years ago, I found it enjoyable and peaceful even though I wore my snow pants most of the time (article). This relationship may only seem out of survival but also includes an attitude of gratefulness which for most is not part of the dinner table, our eating in the car, fast food restaurants, and more.

Dr. Bass, once a fruitarian, introduced me to Canadian explorer Valhjadmir Stefansson on the healthy benefits of the Inuit diet which also included seal blubber.

Exclusive meat diets can be healthy
From 1906 until 1918, Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson ate almost exclusively fish and seal meat, often raw or fermented, and almost no vegetables – living as an Eskimo among Eskimos. He concluded that he had never been in better health in his life. In this article, he concludes that wild meat/fish is better than citrus for scurvy, that meat is excellent for the teeth, that exclusive meat diets increase health, and that humans may have no need for varied diets with vegetables & fruits. For his full article “Adventures in Diet” click here.

Don’t Call Me Eskimo? Eskimo actually means meat-eating dog but is this true?

A Discovery of Seal Oil from the Blubber of the Harp Seal

In 2008, another holistic nutritionist shared information on another source of omega – not fish or plant. I was curious because fish oil was not highly recommended by some of the doctors. The research indicated plant sources were not always converted into enough of the long-chain omegas most needed by our bodies. Conversion is hindered by the increased amounts of processed foods, toxins, and stress levels.

The following week I spoke with RJ Millar, a biochemist who was labeled with Asperger’s as a child and who had a personal mission to help children all over the world. He told me about how seal oil helped nonverbal autistic children speak after 6 weeks (Clinical Research Study). After 30 minutes of learning the key points, I now know it only scratched the surface of what was about to unfold.

First, I needed to experience the oil for myself before I would continue to explore and recommend this oil to family, friends, clients then perhaps other practitioners. In July 2008, I started consuming mammalian omegas from the harp seal. I put the oil under my tongue (sublingual) and held it there for optimum absorption – a direct route into the blood and into my brain. After holding the seal oil in my mouth, I swallowed it so the oil would flow down into the digestive tract for further absorption.

Believe it or not “I felt a response the same day. It was if I was taller which I liken to my brain turning on. The joke was I grew a half-inch at my annual doctor’s check-up only a few months after being on the Auum Sublingual-D seal oil” shares Cheryl.

Nutrient-Dense Food

Opening my mind and heart to it wasn’t always easy in the beginning because I was thinking about being a raw foodist (vegan). While studying to become a Holistic Nutritionist, there was plenty of information leaning towards vegetarianism but Weston A. Price showed a different side like Stefansson – animals and fat are not our enemies. My father hunted so I accepted hunters and how they provided food for their families. There was something poking me to continue and I followed my intuition.

“It is the nutrient-dense foods of our ancestors that allow ourselves and most importantly our children and grandchildren to enjoy the vibrant health that is the birthright of every human being on the planet.” shares Sally Fallon, President of the Weston A. Price Foundation

Should people support hunting and eating animals? Listening to the different sides, there are different opinions. In the news, I watched people who support stopping the seal hunt make fools out of themselves because they did not have a good grasp of what is going on (the reason behind the news clip), to this short video called Cold Cuts – spiritual ways with real food for the soul.

Stefansson: “These survivors of the stone age were the healthiest people I have ever lived among. I would say the community, from infancy to old age, may have had on the average the health of an equal number of men about twenty.” “I returned without reluctance to the Eskimo meals of fish and cold water. It seemed to me that, mentally and physically, I had never been in better health in my life.” “I have lived in the Arctic for more than five years exclusively on meat and water.”

Conclusion

From plants to animals, there is an appreciation from explorers to chefs for the ways the Inuit culture lived off the land and consumed real food. I will continue to consume seal oil from the harp seal blubber for my well-being. The Auum company has proven to me that taking seal oil or mammalian Omegas is an efficient way for me, my family, and my clients to get Omega-3. Omega-3 is the number one supplement on the market for the reasons it supports our well-being. Will an Omega supplement be good for you? Read Omega ABCs…

References:

http://www.drbass.com/stefansson1.html

http://www.drbass.com/stefansson2.html

Seal Blubber Oil Research http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19713092

Cold Cuts: The Cuisine of the Artic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiRKhzYdTes