On Sunday, November 9, 2003, at 08:02 AM, Don Wiss wrote:
> Whatever these people ate certainly didn't help them grow to great
> heights.
> They are considerably shorter than our paleo ancestors. So I would not
> use
> what they ate for a long as a positive thing.
>
No, but they were primarily corn and bean eaters. Cocoa was probably
good for them in that poor diet! Some Native American tribes were very
big compared to the Europeans of the day. I imagine they were fat
starved in Central America.