soil fertility and immunity (was: What hope can be offered to AIDS patients?)

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and Chi,

>> > In any case, my point was that the differential immunity to various

>> > diseases of the natives and the European settlers can better be

>> > explained by differences in historical populational exposure to the

>> > specific microbes than it can by a superiority of the nutrition of

>> > European settlers.

>>

>> Fine, I disagree. The natives wouldn't have had the problems of the

>> European settlers until they ate the inferior quality of nutrition

>> of the European food. Gosh, I thought that was the point Price over

>> emphasized in his book.

Thanks for this fascinating discussion, it's been very educational. I have a

question, although I suspect no one has an answer but I'll throw it out

there anyhow. Is there any data to suggest that natives who lived in areas

of low soil fertility, such as New England, and that had not been exposed to

" white man's food " (meaning processed, refined foods in the context of

Price's research), were more prone to succumbing to smallpox and other novel

infectious diseases? I guess it would make sense that they'd succumb quicker

or maybe just get sicker than natives who ate foods from high fertility

soil, but I wonder if the soil fertility made a *significant* difference, or

just a negligable one. (I have an idea what Chi would say.) Did anyone see

that map in " Metabolic Man: 10,000 Years from Eden " which showed the

correlation between soil fertility and dental decay? I understand that

immunity to dental decay and other forms of phsyical degeneration may be

different than immunity to infectious disease, but I'd sure love to see a

similar mapping of soil fertility as it related to infectious disease during

a time when folks consumed only indigenous foods (thus, the nutrient density

of their diet would reflect the level of soil fertility in their area).

Suze Fisher

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