>A lifelong, mostly vegetarian diet of all-natural,
>organic, pesticide free grains and green vegetables
>stunted her growth to the point that her twelve year
>old granddaughter stands a head taller than she.
>
>
"Correlation does not imply causality". Her shortness will have been due to other factors, such as perhaps a lack of protein when she was a child.
>Decades of wholesome physical labor, stooped over rows
>of rice plants in the fields outlying our town bent
>her spine so that she walks in a permanent crouch,
>like a beetle. I've never seen her stand up straight.
> I don't think she can anymore.
>
>
Sounds like she has osteoporosis, something that affects people in all walks of life, not just agricultural workers.
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Colin Brace | cb at lim.nl
Amsterdam