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Polar Gateways Arctic Circle Sunrise - Post-Conference News
Nutritionist Jennifer Johnson Dishes Out Counterintuitive Advice
Carrie Galou, The Core, Supplement to University of Chicago
Magazine, pp. 33-34, July-Aug. 2012
On native Inupiat diet of Barrow, Alaska: “The traditional diet,
especially of the arctic people, is considered to be the most
nutritious of any indigenous diet in the world.”
This diet includes “herring eggs, caribou bone marrow, and muktuk
(whale skin and blubber).” which are “extremely fatty” but composed
of “healthy unsaturated fat.” Jennifer is a 1987 graduate of UC and
now nutrition program manager for the North Slope Borough including
Barrow.