Sentence examples for blubber consumption from inspiring English sources
Because the demographics of the participants in these two cohorts were similar, this decrease, and the association with the frequency of whale dinners during pregnancy, may reflect a decrease in whale blubber consumption.
These findings are supported by a study on a Faroese birth cohort in which the primary contributors to the serum total PCB concentrations at 7 and 14 years of age were breast-feeding and blubber consumption, respectively (Barr et al. 2006).
Faroe Islands residents are heavily exposed to PCBs and methylmercury (MeHg) because of their pilot whale blubber and meat intake and extensive fish consumption.
Dr. Ohsumi says that only whale carcasses can provide "ear plugs for age determination studies; reproductive organs for examination of maturation, reproductive cycles and reproductive rates; stomachs for analysis of food consumption; and blubber thickness as a measure of condition".
The study, published online last month in the journal PloS Medicine, was carried out in the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic, where the consumption of pilot whale blubber results in very high PCB blood levels.
On 1 June 2011 the Faroese Food and Veterinary Authorities, Named Heilsufrøðiliga Starvsstovan, sent out an official recommendation regarding the consumption of meat and blubber from the pilot whale.
Consumption of fish, whale blubber, and dairy products by pregnant women was the main source of prenatal PCB exposure as reflected by maternal serum concentrations that ranged from 23 to 450 ng/g of fat.
Still use whale blubber for lighting.
This allows them to maintain their body heat without the blubber other sea mammals use.
Due to pollution, consumption of the meat and blubber is considered unhealthy by some.
