Ecuador diet - 11 lb of sugar a week, no meat and nice teeth

[Guest guest]

I'm looking through the " Hungry Planet " book I finally got and am

stumped at the role of diet in Ecuador. These people have very nice

teeth, well-developed heads/faces etc. and eat 11 lb of sugar a week

(in a family of 9, some of them very small). They eat no meat or eggs

and only 1.8 gallons of milk a week for all of them. Their diet is

mostly starches with some fresh fruit/vegetables. They do eat mostly

whole grains tho and get A LOT of exercise. Hmmm. It seems there are

no simple rules for what works and what doesn't.