Think that's a myth.
http://rules-of-the-game.com/lin003-snow-words.htm

Paul H
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Jonathan B. Britten 
  To: [email protected] 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2004 5:52 AM
  Subject: CS>Inuit


  Note to all: these people wish to be called Inuit and consider the term 
"Eskimo" derogatory. 


  On Tuesday, Nov 16, 2004, at 12:30 Asia/Tokyo, bbanever wrote:


    Marshall,
     
        The eskimos are eating mostly raw, organically produced meat/blubber 
and living in very cold climates.  This necessitates a higher metabolic rate 
for increased body heat which is produced by those foods.   If you ate their 
typical diet in more temperate climates you wouldn't live that long.  Also, 
they aren't eating bacon, cheesebugers, hotdogs, sausage, and other fatty, 
cooked, and processed meats full of nitrates, nitrites, coloring agents, 
flavoring agents, antibiotics, rodent hairs, fecal matter, and other 
non-nutritional additives.  Eating raw meat offers the body enzymes capable of 
digesting the meat, and other vitamin/mineral and protein substances not 
destroyed by heat, ionizing radiation, antibiotics, and other preservatives.  
Go ahead, eat all those high trans-fat, saturated fat, and cholesterol laden 
meats.... just don't complain when you're told by your cardiologist you need a 
triple bypass.