[Glenn]

I am reading "Native American Women" (1996) by Diana Steer. She points out that scientists have found that living in the pure land as it was then, and centuries of knowledge doing so, found whole cultures without tooth decay, arthritis, no cancer among northerns and eskimos, and lived longer than we thought. As soon as they ate Europeon food, and learned their ways, their health deteriorated. They also knew which part of an animal provided crucial vitamins to prevent diseases. For example,The Plains tribes knew to eat raw adrenal glands for vitamin C and vitamin A around the fatty tissues of the eyes of animals etc. things we would'nt think of eating raw today. Most of this knowledge is gone now, along with the pure land, but since I began reading this book, I now believe they lived better and just as long as us.