(11-13-2017, 05:16 AM)Valence Wrote: Yeah but Inuits have such a special diet that I don't think applying it to more or less "standard" pre industrial revolution diet is fair.
Fact remains that people before contemporary dental care had rotten teeth, even with a lot less sugar than today, which helped them not to lose them all before their twenties I guess. Some civilizations, again, fared better than others, of course.
The issue is that you can't just apply a general one-thing-fits-all to everywhere. People tend to look at the big cities in western europe in specific time periods, and apply that to every single group of people in every time period ever, and that simply does not work. What's their diet like? What's their idea of hygiene? What's their idea of normal? What's their idea of appropriate hygienic practice?
To say that "I don't think applying it to more or less 'standard' pre industrial revolution diet is fair" of one group and then assume that another group is "standard" is missing the point and really, really defaulting back to that western bias.
