Crops don't grow in the frozen ground, so people have
a largely carnivorous diet — reindeer meat, raw flesh shaved from frozen fish, and ice cubes of horse blood with macaroni are a few local delicacies.»
This is one of the most important lessons of Price's research — that a mixed
diet of whole foods, one that avoids the extremes of the
carnivorous Masai and the
largely vegetarian Bantu, ensures optimum physical development.