Word: meats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eskimos do not suffer from diabetes or cancer, rarely from hardening of the arteries. Yet they subsist almost entirely on meat. The possible relationship between such absence of disease and the peculiar diet of Eskimos led Professor Israel Mordecai Rabinowitch of McGill University Faculty of Medicine to join the Canadian Government's Eastern Arctic Patrol on a nine-week cruise last summer among the Hudson's Bay Co. fur trading posts which fringe Hudson Bay and the great islands to the north. Having systematized his clinical, bacteriological, chemical and sociological findings among the Eskimos, Dr. Rabinowitch published them...
When food is abundant, "a healthy Eskimo living under primitive conditions will eat 5 to 10 pounds of meat a day." Trappers rely on caribou and dried buffalo meat. Hunters eat seal, walrus and whale meat. The Eskimo "has some carbohydrates for approximately two months in the year, in the form of blueberries. He also relishes the stomach contents of the caribou which, throughout the year, contain carbohydrates. . . . The stomach contents are often eaten with seal oil-a salad! When an Eskimo catches a walrus he immediately opens the stomach and eats all of the clams. . . . The Eskimos...
That diet supplies all the proteins, fats and carbohydrates which the Eskimos need to thrive on. Whenever they adopt white men's flour, they develop alkalosis. Seal meat is the Arctic purgative...
...rate it shows that we are living in a small world when college professors read meat advertisements of rural midwestern towns and make comment thereof in their official college papers. If our advertisements are good reading for folks in the "High-bat' East they must be alright for us of the "common" Midwest. And it also goes to show it pays to advertise. -Clipped from the "Sleepy Eye Progressive...
...Workers' Alliance charged down from the gallery. Ray Cooke, jobless actor and national treasurer of the Alliance, announced: "There will be no violence. We are all peaceful, but we propose to stay here." By nightfall 50 men, women & children were encamped in the Assembly chamber. Bread and meat were brought in, and sandwiches were made on the clerk's desk. A coffee urn was set up under a portrait of Abraham Lincoln. John Spain Jr., Workers' Alliance organizer, took the chair as "Speaker." "Assemblymen" made speeches demanding relief...