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Inuit have been surviving off of a diet of mainly meat, and fat rendered from animals since before the country was colonized, and they had the lowest rates of chronic disease and cancer in the world. [1]
Now Canada's Food Guide and the Nunavut Food Guide recommend they spend money on canola oil instead of living off the land and using traditional animal fats. The claim that canola has omega 3 and so should replace the traditional oils is erroneous, as the traditional oils not only have a higher omega 3 content, but are so nutrient dense that they are among the most nutrient dense in the world.
Most poor people in the world have to get by using vegetable and canola oil because they can't afford better quality oil. In Nunavut getting healthy animal fats wasn't a problem before colonization, and it still isn't. Along with community hunting and sharing programs where Inuit receive meat for free or trade, there are government programs for supporting hunters and the people who eat the food - simply put a free meat program. [2]
In fact canola oil is often damaging to cell membranes.[3] The heat-processed canola is much less expensive than cold-pressed, which would incline less-wealthy people to choose it. What they aren't made aware of is that this high-temperature processed oil change the reticulum membrane, disabling its function.
This is the same reason margarine is so damaging to our bodies, but it is recommended by the Dept of Health.
ref:
[1] Oxford, 1900.
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[3]NIH, Sparkes