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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2015-10-24 05:51, John Clark wrote:<br>
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<font size="4">nuits eat more animal fat and protein
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Actually, this has been disputed. The low cardiovascular disease
claim seems to come from one old, small and flawed study that has
been endlessly cited.<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12535749">http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12535749</a><br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2014/08/fish-oil-and-eskimo-diet-another-medical-myth-debunked">https://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion/2014/08/fish-oil-and-eskimo-diet-another-medical-myth-debunked</a><br>
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Still, there is no doubt populations of humans can thrive on very
bad diets. If the alternative is starvation, one will make do. <br>
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Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University
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