The Healthy People of the Outer Hebrides

The Healthy People of the Outer Hebrides

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The splendid physical development of the native Gaelic fisher folk is characterized by excellent teeth and well-formed faces.14 ( Original caption.)

Stories have long been told of the superb health of the people living in the Islands of the Outer Hebrides.15

The Outer Hebrides are islands off of the coast of Scotland.

The basic foods of these islanders are fish and oat products with a little barley. Oat grain is the one cereal that develops fairly readily, and it provides the porridge and oat cakes that in many homes are eaten in some form regularly with each meal. The fishing about the Outer Hebrides is especially favorable, and small seafoods including lobsters, crabs, oysters and clams, are abundant. An important and highly relished article of diet has been baked cod's head stuffed with chopped cod's liver and oatmeal.16

Immunity to Tooth Decay

On the Isle of Lewis, only 1.3 teeth out of every hundred examined had been attacked by dental caries (1.3%). On the Isle of Harris, just 1.0% of teeth were decayed, and on the Isle of Skye, those living on primitive foods had only 0.7 carious teeth per hundred (0.7%).

Gaelics on Modern Foods are Losing Their Health

One of the sad stories of the Isle of Lewis has to do with the recent rapid progress of the white plague. The younger generation of the modernized part of the Isle of Lewis is not showing the same resistance to tuberculosis as their ancestors.17 (Emphasis added.)

The pictures of the brothers on the next pages illustrate how it is not genetics that causes physical deterioration. Rather it is a factor of the amount of modern, nutrient-poor processed foods that one eats.

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