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Historical Event
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February 19, 1957
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Mrs. Griest never found a case of breast cancer among Eskimo natives.
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Griest Letter
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Toward the end of her first letter to me, the one dated February 19, 1957, having dealt already with the case of Jobe, Mrs. Greist goes on to discuss a form of cancer that is frequent among whites in Europe and North America, breast cancer in women. The letter says:
“This I know, we never found any women with lumps in their breasts. I never knew, in all my 17 years of nursing in the hospital with Dr. Greist, of a single woman who did not breast-feed her child, and nurse it for 2, 3, and up to 4 years ... I never observed a caked breast or a sore nipple.”
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Eskimo | The Inuit lived for as long as 10,000 years in the far north of Canada, Alaska, and Greenland and likely come from Mongolian Bering-Strait travelers. They ate an all-meat diet of seal, whale, caribou, musk ox, fish, birds, and eggs. Their nutritional transition to civilized plant foods spelled their health demise. | |
Cancer | Cancer is a metabolic disease where the mitochrondria are no longer able to burn fatty acids and instead rely on fermentation of glucose and glutamine. Ketogenic diets have been used to prevent and cure cancer, as they induce a metabolic stress on cancer cells who cannot use ketones as fuel. |
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