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Old 18th October 2019, 07:05 AM   #142
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Originally Posted by Distracted1 View Post
Perhaps.
Perhaps different cultures within the same time period could be compared instead.
Different cultures within the same time period had different availability of food. And the data on something like obesity rates for anything other than very recent times isn't going to be very accurate to begin with.
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