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Historical Event
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January 1, 1937
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Short Description:
Eskimos suffer very little from maglignant disease despite a practically exclusive meat diet.
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Cancer and Diet
Vilhjalmur Stefansson
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Chronologically speaking, the next report on cancer for this region is credited to me, on page 171 of Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman's Cancer and Diet (Baltimore, 1937) :
“... food surveys of the Arctic region, particularly by Stefansson [in northern Alaska and the Canadian western Arctic] seem to show, regardless of a practically exclusive meat diet, that Eskimos suffer very little from malignant disease ...”
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