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To: dylan murphy who wrote (6091)	8/23/2008 11:27:03 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 17107

"Its amazing how barren the woods are when you are looking for food." Boy you said a mouthful there. Every 5 to 7 years by Hudson Bay records there is an animal die off. Both the animals died and the Indians starved like clockwork in many parts of the country. Hudson Bay in Canada changed all that as the Indians could come in for supplies. I have lived in the bush for extended periods and can testify to the fact that you are not overrun by wildlife anywhere in Canada. That is why snaring birds and rabbits and trapping fish and other animals is a necessary skill if you want to live off the land. Indians even used to snare moose. Hard to say how long they lived in the past. What is clear is that they don't live long today. Probably because of bad diet, alcoholism and childhood mortality. In 1967 the average age of death of Indians was 55.6 years in the US, if you subtract death before 5 years of age. White North American lived to 69 on average and others in the US to 60 on average. Blacks lived shorted lives due to a predisposition to Cancer and heart disease, probably because of their lack of ability to get proper D3 and their poorer diet. Indians' diet was likewise lousy due to poverty. High diabetes, and heart disease plagued him as well. TB, smallpox all took their toll at the time. Today interestingly Indians die of less cancer than whites. This may be because they don't live as long. It is a still a major killer. Explorers and other observers noticed that Indians and Eskimo did not show as much cancer and heart disease as whites in general. They definitely knew about Cancer and had salves for its topical expression that have been found effective. I had heard from some Indians that they had "cures" for cancers. These people were recounting something from lore, which was supposed to be known and did not know the plant names. However they were serious about this. The subsequent discovery of Taxol from an Indian herb points to this story being a possibly true to some extent. Vilhjalmur Stefansson wrote some on the Inuit diet and culture that he believe was responsible for their low incidence of cancer and heart disease. His writing on that can be found here. biblelife.org "Otto Schaeffer, a specialist in internal medicine and director of the Northern Medical Research Unit at Charles Campbell Hospital, Arctic Canada, found that as long as the Eskimo lived on his native diet in the traditional manner, he remained in sound health and was practically free from degenerative diseases, especially those that afflict Americans. He reports that with the adoption of the white man’s diet, which consists largely of refined carbohydrates (sugar, white flour), processed polyunsaturated fats, and other processed foods, the Eskimo is widely afflicted with all the degenerative diseases common to our modern society. "