At 14:46 7/23/97 -0400, you wrote:
>Well certainly I may be dismissing something I shouldn't be.  But again,
>multiple sources who lived among the Inuit around the turn of the century
>describe the eskimos invariably as a hearty, strong, upright people, with
>zero incidence of rickets and none of the stoopedness and late-life
>deformity that are so common among people who suffer from severe calcium
>deficiency.
        Hey, the talk about vit. D and SAD made me think of something.  The
eskimos eat a lot of liver, high in vit. A and D.  D is without a doubt,
more important in preventing bone loss, than any other vitamin.