Northwest History. Alaska, United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1937
• Subjects: Eskimo diet; decay; teeth; Bethel; Alaska; Columbia university; dental research expedition; Hooper bay; Nunivak island; Bering sea; Dr. L. M. Waugh; civilized diet; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th century; Bering Sea; Pacific; Waugh; eskimo*; Nunivak; Nunivak Island
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/92143

Eskimo Diet Would Stop Decay Of Whites' Teeth. ESKIMO-DIET WOULD STOP DECAY OF WHITES' TEETH ! Bethel, Alaska, March 20— (/P)—A Columbia university dental research expedition found today that the Eskimo's diet would stop decay of the white man's teeth. Examining Eskimos with perfect teeth in remote areas of Hooper bay and Nunivak island on the Bering sea, Dr. L. M. Waugh, leader of the party, said he had concluded that refined sugar, not natural sweets, in the civilized diet was responsible for tooth "We found natives with practically perfect teeth, lacking in decay, so long as they lived in their natural state untouched by the white man and ate their native diet which lacks sugar in its refined form. "When natives are subjected to the white man's diet their teeth decay and its causes are identical in the white man and the Eskimo when the latter is subjected to the civilized diet," he said.