you ARE what you eat!

[Madz]

A while ago I was watching a TV programme about history cold cases. This particular one was investigating a 600-year old skeleton found in a forgotten room in Stirling Castle.
By taking a sample from the femur of the skeleton and examining the isotopes, experts revealed that this long-dead man had been living on a diet of mostly fish.
Now to my way of thinking, doesn't this prove that 'you are what you eat'?

[ani]

i remember reading on the net a long time ago
how they found skeletons of native american indians
who had been eating corn
and the difference in their bones.
i have never been able to find it since
but basically it was saying once the west introduced corn
the bones degraded.
same ol same ol when we talk about the west :(

[Jeni]

The point about any 'old bone' is what was their general state of health in the overall picture?

The best series was on BBC2 a while back where they were looking at 200 year old skeletions to find out who they were and what was their life like by looking at the mineral levels, various lumps and bumps etc,..