> 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