| Summary: | Eskimos Teeth Aching: Change To White Man's Food Blamed By Scientists. ESKIMOS' TEETH ACHING Change to White Man's Food Blamed by Scientists. WASHINGTON, Aug. 2. (/P)— Toothaches are increasing among Eskimos of Alaska in proportion to the amount of white man's food they eat. The Smithsonian institution said today that among 25 Eskimos who still live on fish, seal, walrus, birds and whale meat, and seldom see whites, not a single case of tooth decay was found by Henry B. Collins, Smithsonian scientist. At Nome, largest white settlement in Alaska, he found seven out of nine natives had decayed teeth. Change of diet from native to "civilized" foods is undoubtedly the predisposing factor in the increased tooth decay, said the Smithsonian announcement. Before the advent of the whites Eskimos had the least amount of tooth decay of any racial group in the world.
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