Showing posts with label Heart Disease; Amazon Tribe; Tsimane People. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Heart Disease; Amazon Tribe; Tsimane People. Show all posts

Saturday, March 18, 2017

Amazon Tribe Has Lowest Heart Risk Ever Seen: Study

A Tsimane father and son hunt fish in a river. (Michael Gurven)
Researchers said Friday they had found an indigenous Amazonian tribe with the lowest levels of artery hardening -- a portender of heart disease -- ever observed.
Most members of the Tsimane community, an indigenous Amazonian tribe, are active for between four and seven hours a day --  hunting, gathering, fishing and farming, the study found