Original: In 1928 the Arctic anthropologist Vilhjalmur Stefansson attempted to prove his theory of how the Eskimos are able to avoid scurvy with almost no plant food in their diet , despite the disease striking European Arctic explorers living on similar high-meat diets .
Simplified: In 1928 the Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson proved that Eskimo ( Inuit ) people are able to avoid scurvy with almost no plant food in their diet by eating raw meat .