Eskimo

The hver of sharks and other oily fishes sometimes accumulate toxic levels of vitamin A, and cases of acute poisoning have been reported both among Eskimos and the Japanese. 

People have sometimes been able to avoid the tedious business of extracting iron from its natural ore. When Commander Peary was exploring Greenland in 1894 he was taken by an Eskimo to a place near Cape York to see a huge, half-buried meteorite. This had provided metal for Eskimo tools and weapons for over a hundred years. Meteorites usually contain iron plus about 10% nickel a direct delivery of low-alloy iron from the heavens. 

A common example utilizing the same concept is a woman s pointed high heel shoes. She can leave imprint marks on a vinyl tile floor from impression of her shoe heel points. Another example would be the Eskimo, who can walk on soft snow without sinking by varying the area of contact of his footprint with broad snowshoes. 

The prevalence of PACG is lower than that of POAG and varies significantly by race and ethnicity. It is low in patients of European descent (0.09% to 0.16%) but higher in patients of Chinese (1.3%), Eskimo (2.9% to 5%), and Asian Indian (4.33%) descent. PACG is also more prevalent with increasing age and female gender.5,6... 

African or Hispanic descent Asian or Eskimo ethnicity... 

Finally, polymorphisms associated with arylamine N-acetyltransferase (NAT2) may result in slow acetylators. The slow-acetylator phenotype is present in 50-70% of the population in Western countries and is associated with several drug-induced side effects. The frequency of the slow-acetylator phenotype rises to 80% in Egyptian and certain Jewish populations however, the frequency drops to 10% or 20% among Japanese and Canadian Eskimos. 

MacCartney, A. P. and Mack, D. J., Iron utilization by Thule Eskimos of Central Canada, American Antiquity. 38(3), 328-338 (1973). 

Galster, W.A. 1976. Mercury in Alaskan Eskimo mothers and infants. Environ. Health Perspec. 15 135-140. 

French explorers probably taught the Inuit Eskimos how to play dominoes. 

In contrast to the Bantu, consumption of high-meat diets by the North American Eskimos has been accompanied by severe osteoporosis. Mazess and Mather ( 0 measured bone densities of both male and female Eskimos of all ages. As early as the fourth decade of life, Eskimo women had bones with less than 857> of the density of age, and sex-matched white women living in the United States. Markedly larger differences of bone occurred in later decades this was true of Eskimos of both sexes. The Eskimo diet, very high in protein, is abundantly supplied with fish, reindeer, moose, caribou, and other meats. 

K17. Klausen, I. C., Gerdes, L. U., Berg Schmidt, E., Dyerberg, J., and Faergeman, O., Differences in apolipoprotein(a) polymorphism in West Greenland Eskimos and Caucasian Danes. Hum. Genet. 89, 384-388 (1992). 

In the Artie Eskimos depended historically on fish for their supply of vitamin D, whereas in the tropics a supply is unnecessary. Excessive intakes of vitamins A and D can be lethal. The liver is the storage organ for fat-soluble vitamins Eskimos avoided hypervitaminoses by discarding livers of polar bears which get a surfeit of vitamins A and D from their diet of seals and fish. 

And so this history of whiteness and its fluidity is very much a history of power and its disposition. But there is a second dimension race is not just a conception it is also a perception. The problem is not merely how races are comprehended, but how they are seen. In her 1943 obituary of Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict recounted how Boas the physicist, having gone to the Arctic to study the properties of water, became Boas the anthropologist upon discovering that his observations did not at all match those of the Eskimos he encountered. Remarked Benedict, He returned with... 

Sixty to eighty-five percent of the fatty acids in fishery products are either monounsaturated or polyunsaturated. Polyunsaturated fats have been shown to reduce blood cholesterol levels and the same phenomenon exists for fish oils. Epidemiological studies of the Greenland Eskimos show their diet to be high in marine oils and the populaticxi has correspcMidingly low serum cholesterol values (6) (7). 

Our blood type is determined by a gene that is present on chromosome 9, near the end of the long arm. There are four general blood types A, AB, B, and O. Some of these are intermixable while others are not. For instance, A blood from a person is compatible with A and AB B with B and AB AB with only AB and O blood is compatible with all of the blood types—a person with type O is then a universal donor. These compatibility scenarios are not race-related. For all but the native Americans who have almost totally type O, the rest of us have about 40% type O another 40% type A 15% type B and 5% type AB. (Some of the Eskimos are type AB or B and some Canadian tribes are type A.) A and B are codominant versions of the same gene and O is the recessive form of this gene. 

Today, controversies rage as to whether the Inuit really have richer vocabularies for snow than do English speakers. Many English snow-related words do indeed exist, like sleet, slush, blizzard, and others that are not as commonly spoken. Psychologist Steven Pinker calls the idea that the Inuit have more words for snow than English the Great Eskimo Vocabulary Hoax. ... 

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