New Guinea cannibals on native diet

[Guest guest]

I'm reading " Peace Child " now by Don , about his first

missionary trip to New Guinea to reach a tribe of people who had been

untouched by civilization until the 1970's. They were living as their

ancestors had, on a native diet, and while he doesn't mention their

teeth, they had a truly violent and dysfunctional culture! I thought

Price noticed that people on native diets were more harmonious? These

guys would force their wives to sit in a corner and beat them whenever

she looked around, shot them through with arrows, and are hugely

warlike and even frequently fought amonst themselves - in their

villages.

So what do you think? Is a healthy diet one that ALWAYS leads to

greater compassion and amounts of those good attributes that we think

belong to humans in their highest level of self-actualization, or can

incredibly dysfunctional peoples remain incredibly dysfunctional even

on the best of diets? Can we assume that the New Guinea cannibals were

deficient in some nutrient that led to their violent and warlike ways,

or is that another form of " normal " for a " healthy " human being?