Who is Aajonus Vonderplanitz ?

While this is supposed to be a paleo list, and the article is about paleo
living, I would like to comment that in Europe there was plenty of evidence
from the 1920s of perfectly fit and healthy people living in a pastoral
manner, particularly isolated Swiss villagers, and also islanders living on
isolated islands in the Orkneys. The common thread is that they did not have
any road access to the outside world, and they lived entirely on what they
produced themselves, either from their high alpine meadows, in the case of
the Swiss, or the surrounding seas for the Orkney islanders.

They had no tooth decay, no heart disease, no cancers and no diabetes, etc.,
also they had happy cheerful dispositions, and open wide "sunny" faces with
perfect teeth. No jobs for orthodontists there. This is all documented. In
other words, a village life, based on community farming and agriculture, and
fishing and hunting, is perfectly healthy, so long as there are no inputs
from the industrialized world.

(I also have a Mexican friend, one of whose grandmothers lived so long that
the family basically abandoned her - she was well over 100 years old. She
also lived in an isolated village with no road access, on Mexico's west coast)

Charles
San Diego, CA