Just another snippet of info to add to Sheye's above...

The Inuit (Eskimos) traditionally didn't eat much in the way of fruit and vegetables (for the simple reason the growing season is too short and the conditions are generally too harsh.) They received most of their necessary vitamins from eating raw meat. Cooking the meat destroys some of the vitamins in the meat. The idea of eating raw meat, like seal, for example, is not very inviting to most non-Inuit people.

Moira Cameron, Yellowknife, NT (Just below the Arctic Circle; and yes, I have eaten raw seal blubber, as well as other Northern delicacies.)