Icelanders are inbred but they look good and healthy

[LoLeL]

How do you explain the good result of inbreeding among Icelanders?

[Kouros]

That's because they practice borderline eugenics. Icelanders have aborted nearly 70%+ of babies tested positive for Down Syndrome since early 2000s.

The only other two European countries that do the same are Russia and Cyprus. Cyprus has reduced the incidence of thalassemia from 1 out of every 158 births to almost zero using a compulsary screening policy.

[LoLeL]

That's because they practice borderline eugenics. Icelanders have aborted nearly 70%+ of babies tested positive for Down Syndrome since early 2000s.

The only other two European countries that do the same are Russia and Cyprus. Cyprus has reduced the incidence of thalassemia from 1 out of every 158 births to almost zero using a compulsary screening policy.

It seems avoiding first cousin marriage is enough. Other levels of inbreeding are actually good.

[Kouros]

It seems avoiding first cousin marriage is enough. Other levels of inbreeding are actually good.

Who knows. Icelanders also have mutations that increase their risk to cancer and heart diseases that are only scarcely found elsewhere in Europe. That's most likely a result of founder effect and inbreeding.

If you look at the stats around 30% of Icelanders end up dying to cancer and another 30% to heart diseases. But it doesn't really matter in the end because they still have the longest lifespan in the world. And thats ultimately due to their fit/healthy lifestyle and tradition.

http://www.cancerregistry.is/krabbameinsskra/indexen.jsp?id=summary
https://statice.is/publications/news-archive/population/causes-of-death/

[LoLeL]

Who knows. Icelanders also have mutations that increase their risk to cancer and heart diseases that are only scarcely found elsewhere in Europe. That's most likely a result of founder effect and inbreeding.

If you look at the stats around 30% of Icelanders end up dying to cancer and another 30% to heart diseases. But it doesn't really matter in the end because they still have the longest lifespan in the world. And thats ultimately due to their fit/healthy lifestyle and tradition.

http://www.cancerregistry.is/krabbameinsskra/indexen.jsp?id=summary
https://statice.is/publications/news-archive/population/causes-of-death/

Interesting info

[Jehan]

That's because they practice borderline eugenics. Icelanders have aborted nearly 70%+ of babies tested positive for Down Syndrome since early 2000s.

The only other two European countries that do the same are Russia and Cyprus. Cyprus has reduced the incidence of thalassemia from 1 out of every 158 births to almost zero using a compulsary screening policy.


In France all babies are test for down syndrome...

[Jehan]

And icelanders are probably no more inbreed than many others nations.

Inbreeding is the production of offspring from the mating or breeding of individuals or organisms that are closely related genetically

[brennus dux gallorum]

Do you have statistics implying that Icelanders are healthy?

[rein]

Good Viking and Irish genes.

[LoLeL]

Do you have statistics implying that Icelanders are healthy?

No. As you see I said "they look...". Read Kouros' posts.

[brennus dux gallorum]

No. As you see I said "they look...". Read Kouros' posts.

I see nothing "healthy" about their looking. You should say "to me they look"

[Jehan]

Do you have statistics implying that Icelanders are healthy?

They build a good society and a correct economy without oil and gaz. I fhtey were retard, island would look like arabs or african countries, no?

[Petalpusher]

They are healthy and have the longest lifespan in the world because they are closely related, which is different than being inbred. Genetically they are mostly at the balance point where it actually has positive effects. It's even intuitive, as humanity has probably evolved to favor that closely related pattern, just not too close. They have good food as well but it cannot explain this alone:


"It is probably because of a genetic background," said Stefansson. "I don't think it has anything to do with the environment we live in. I don't think it has anything to do with the clean air, the fresh water, or the fish we eat. I think it has all to do with how we select our parents."

Stefansson said his company — which has collected genetic information on one-third of Iceland's population — investigated the underpinnings of longevity by comparing the genes of those 90 and up to see if they were more related to each other than control groups.

"And indeed they are much more related to each other," he said. "We established that the ability to become 90 years of age was basically genetic."


https://www.nbcnews.com/health/aging/genetics-or-good-living-why-people-iceland-outlast-rest-world-n516301
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/319/5864/813
https://www.nature.com/news/2008/080207/full/news.2008.562.html#B1




They also have the lowest violent crime while the country is filled with firearms. Some braindead journalists went there to investigate the paradox and they still can't explain it. Such a difficult riddle, what in the hell Iceland is lacking compared to the US dayum dayum !

[brennus dux gallorum]

They build a good society and a correct economy without oil and gaz. I fhtey were retard, island would look like arabs or african countries, no?

I will agree that they have a kinda more "traditional" economy, mostly based on cod fishing

But the question is about physical health, not economy