MYSTERY OF DIET
Who can answer the mystery of the splendid physical development of the ancient Hawaiians? (asks the 'World Magazine’). Recently investigations have shown they had none of these three important foods: milk, whole wheat, and cod liver oil—yet they grey to magnificent stature. Whatever the diet was, it must have contained something we do not use, something very potent. We know that their diet included 13S kinds of edible fish, thirty-one fowls, breadfruit, ferns, bananas, yams, taro, poi, pandanus, and various types of seaweed, but which one (if it was only one) played the role of the all-import food we do not know.
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Evening Star, Issue 19454, 12 January 1927, Page 4
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105MYSTERY OF DIET Evening Star, Issue 19454, 12 January 1927, Page 4
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