On Fri, 13 Jun 1997, Keith wrote:

> If this is true, how come women in cultures (in the far east) whose diet
> primarily consists of grains (rice) do not exhibit anywhere near the
> symptoms of calcium deficiency (e.g. osteoporeisis) found in United
> States?

        Osteoporeisis -=is=- most common in whites and Asians.  If I was
to take a wild guess, I would say it's due to malnutrition
(paleolithically speaking) that makes these people shorter.  They have
less body weight, and less skeletal mass to compete for calcium.
        Height does have more factors than just nutrition, but if you
look at modern Japanese teenagers you can see that they are getting to be
about the same size as the rest of us, and far taller than their parents.

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