Adrienne Smith wrote:

> Asian women do get more osteoporosis, maybe it's because they are so much
> smaller in general.  However, maybe they are smaller because they don't eat
> enough calcium.  Who knows, I just want to cut down on all this pill
> gobbling.

Modern asians are no smaller than other races. The
diminutive Japanese of the war era are dwarfed by their
grandchildren. You can track the advance of the modern
economy by the size of the people. Of course, the heavy meat
eaters like the Koreans are much more robust than the
Japanese.