TEETH AND CHHEWING
The charming girl who gnaws a. ham bone at the dinner party is not being sensibly primitive. The Arctic explorer Vilhjalmur Stefanssbh declared in an address at the annual banquet of the American Dietetic Association that we chew today far more, than our primitive ancestors. Although it is assumed that the Eskimos owe their'fine, healthy teeth to excessive chewing, they actually chew their 'food less than almost any other people, says Mr. Stefansson, and their native meat diet does not massage their gums with coarse foodi Yet not one cavity has been found in any tooth of any Eskimo who died before his food was Europeanised. The Eskimos are the'only people known, past or present, who have this 100 per cent, record of no decayed teeth. He attributed the Eskimo's good teeth to his exclusively meat diet, which includes many parts of the animal not featured in civilised man's meat diet.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 5
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154TEETH AND CHHEWING Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 47, 25 February 1937, Page 5
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