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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 35, 25 February 1937, Page 10

The charming girl who gnaws a-ham bone at the dinner party is not being sensibly- primitive. The Arctxc explorer Yilhjalmur Stefansson, dpclared in an address at the annual banquet of the American Dietetic Association, that we chew to-dayi far mote than our primitive ancestors. Although it is assumed that the Eskimos owe "their fine, healthy teeth to excessive chewiitg, they actually chew their food less than almost any other people, saya Mr Stefansson, and their native meat diet does not massage their gums with ; coarse food. Yot not one eavity has been found in any to.oth of any Eskimo who died before his food was Europeanised. The Eskimos are' the only people known, past or present, who have this 100 per cent record of no decayed teeth. He attributed the Eskimo 's good teeth to his exclusively meat diet, which includes many parts of the animal not featured in- civilised man's meat diet. If you smear the white of egg on the bottom of tarts, it will prevent tho iuiee of the fruit or jam/ soaking , thtough.