riddle@ut-sally.UUCP (Prentiss Riddle) (05/03/85)
Just a little cross-fertilization: Wale Akinpelu (link!aaa) posted the following to net.nlang.africa recently; since chewing sticks are used in India as well, I thought readers of that group might have something to add. > ...Can we learn anything from the ways African > Doctors treat sick people? For example, it has proved > that the reason why african people have less dental > people is because they eat more calcium food and because > they use a combination of chewing stick and brush to > clean their mouth. As a matter of fact, my dentist ask > me to bring a couple of chewing stick when next I visit > any African country. Is this theory true? --- Prentiss Riddle ("Aprendiz de todo, maestro de nada.") --- {ihnp4,harvard,seismo,gatech,ctvax}!ut-sally!riddle --- riddle@ut-sally.UUCP, riddle@ut-sally.ARPA, riddle%zotz@ut-sally