On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, matesz wrote:

>
> he found an amazing thing.  There was not a single case of tuberculosis
> among the people in the mountain villages in Switzerland, who were eating
> their native diets.  They had not access to sugar, white flour, canned, or
> other processed foods.  At that time, tuberculous was rampant among the
> people in rest of Switzerland and Europe.  These people had exceptional
> immunity against dental and infectious diseases.  Price found this among 12
> other native population groups eating primitive diets.
>

I believe that the Swiss villagers were eating mainly rye bread, cheese and
milk products. Healthy, perhaps, but not really paleo.

Andy.