> Date:    Fri, 25 May 2007 11:04:07 +0100
> From:    Geoffrey Purcell <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject:
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> I already pointed out, in an earlier message re accounts of  how the Maori
> were often afflicted by extensive  dental decay, long before settlers
> arrived from the UK.

*** Perhaps that had to do with the reliance in the North on the Kumara?

> Yet Weston-Price claims that they had perfect teeth.

*** Did Price photograph Kumara-eating people of the North, or perhaps 
people from other groups that did not rely heavily on tubers? I don't know, 
just tossing it out as an idea.

--Carrie