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Inuit consume a diet of foods that are fished, hunted, and gathered locally. 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".〔 Nonetheless, fish oil supplement studies have failed to support claims of preventing heart attacks or strokes.〔〔〔 ==Food sources== * Hunted meats: * * Sea mammals such as walrus, seal, and whale. Whale meat generally comes from the beluga whale and the bowhead whale. The latter is able to feed an entire community for nearly a year from its meat, blubber, and skin. Inuit hunters most often hunt juvenile whales which, compared to adults, are safer to hunt and have tastier skin. Ringed seal and bearded seal are the most important aspect of an Inuit diet and is often the largest part of an Inuit hunter's diet.〔 * * Land mammals such as caribou, polar bear, and muskox * * Birds and their eggs * * Saltwater and freshwater fish including sculpin, Arctic cod, Arctic char, capelin and lake trout. * While it is not possible to cultivate native plants for food in the Arctic, the Inuit have traditionally gathered those that are naturally available,〔Searles, Edmund. "Food and the Making of Modern Inuit Identities." Food & Foodways: History & Culture of Human Nourishment 10 (2002): 55–78.〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=kuanniq )〕〔Bennett, John, and Susan Rowley, eds. Uqalurait: An Oral History of Nunavut. Canada: McGill-Queen's Univ. Press, 2004.〕 including: * * Berries including crowberry and cloudberry * * Herbaceous plants such as grasses and fireweed * * Tubers and stems including mousefood, roots of various tundra plants which are cached by voles in underground burrows. * * Roots such as tuberous spring beauty and sweet vetch * * Seaweed 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Inuit diet」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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