The Gaels of the Outer Hebrides ate little but fish, oats, barley, and some seaweed. The Kikuyus of Africa ate primarily sweet potatoes, corn, beans, and bananas, while the Indians of the Pelly mountain country in northwest Canada ate almost solely wild animals.
In contrast to the racial stock that was eating indigenous foods, Price sought out a neighboring tribe or group that had been exposed to foods of western civilization, particularly refined foods such as flour and sugar, as well as canned foods and meats. The comparisons between the “control” and the newly civilized group
