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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsVitamin D deficiency may be reason Sauron lost his bid to rule Middle Earth
"...the evil denizens of Middle Earththe focus of the Hopkinsons' analysisall suffer a consistent problem: their diets, short in fresh fruits and vegetables, and their affinity for dark places, leaves them deficient in vitamin D."
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/the-scientific-reason-super-villains-always-lose-180948173/?no-ist
Kaleva
(36,298 posts)KamaAina
(78,249 posts)perhaps the Eye was an attempt at that.
ashling
(25,771 posts)a more in depth analysis would have looked into
whether nutritional deficits contribute to these "villains" becoming
so cranky in the first place.
In fact, the term "villain" is needlessly derogatory and certainly a misplaced,
if not intentionally bigoted response to a situation no doubt created by Republicans in the first place.
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
― Thomas More, Utopia
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Baitball Blogger
(46,705 posts)that diabetes is not a problem in Middle Earth.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)and with the Trazodone bind them