USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Inuit diet relied upon meat and blubber from whales, seals, and polar bears (Ursus maritimus). Caribou meat was eaten with seal oil or whale oil. Inland Inuit relied upon traded marine mammal oil for a critical part of their diet (Sheehan, 1997).

Detailed explanation-2: -The Arctic is home to the polar bear, caribou, musk oxen, walrus, the beluga and bowhead whales. The creatures most at risk from a warming planet are those that permanently live in the Arctic and depend on sea ice for their survival. The species most at risk include polar bear, seals, walrus and the ivory gull.

Detailed explanation-3: -These traditional Inuit foods include arctic char, seal, polar bear and caribou-often consumed raw, frozen or dried. The foods, which are native to the region, are packed with the vitamins and nutrients people need to stay nourished in the harsh winter conditions.

Detailed explanation-4: -’ The Inuit have adapted themselves to the various regions they inhabit by hunting and whaling for food and constructing igloos for shelter. At one point the Inuit were considered to be among the healthiest people in the world (Gardiner 2007).

Detailed explanation-5: -According to Edmund Searles in his article Food and the Making of Modern Inuit Identities, they consume this type of diet because a mostly meat diet is “effective in keeping the body warm, making the body strong, keeping the body fit, and even making that body healthy".