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Message: [QUOTE="monica e. hall, post: 22572, member: 166175"] The interesting thing about bad teeth is that it often seems to be a result of the mixing of different human types - people with large jaws marrying people with small ones, and the resulting over-crowding in their offspring. Not to mention using sugar as a preservative or in processed food, of course. When one sees Africans, sometimes in very dire circumstances, I am often struck by how brilliant their teeth are compared to ours. And it's all natural. Some aspects of Baker Joughin's story [i]must[/i] be true, as he survived after all, and was pulled from the freezing water after some time. Most modern doubts about his tale seem to me to hinge on the contemporary belief that drinking alcohol should have accelerated his demise, rather than protecting him against the elements. I'm not sure this is true. I reckon that the effects of alcohol are dependent upon one's age, BMI, general fitness etc., and that maybe alcohol did confer a short-term advantage for him. You might not want to take a chance on this in a tricky situation, of course. [/QUOTE]