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Irish were forced to subsist on a
>diet of primarily potatoes, buttermilk, and whatever they could
>scavenge in the way of intertidal sea creatures and plants. They
>died in great numbers from this insufficient diet.
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The Irish died in great numbers because, having been forced to live off of
potatoes, when the potatoes all started dying mysteriously all over the
country, the people began to starve. This was the great potato famine. It
was not the diet based on potatoes.
Having said that, humans evolved eating a great variety of species of
plants, and any diet that relies on one or just a few plant species is
probably not that healthy.
Paul Getty
Morehead City, NC
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