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Seeing the Light
When Dr. Albert Schweitzer arrived in Lambarene, Gabon, in French Equatorial Africa in 1912, he hardly ever saw a case of cancer. Later, cancer rates skyrocketed. Although their new "civilized" diet was certainly at fault, another lifestyle factor may have also played a role.
Natives who had once paddled their dugout canoes up and down the rivers wearing nothing more than a loin cloth, had started wearing sunglasses. Indeed Dr. Schweitzer's daughter remembers that sunglasses were such a status symbol in Lambarene that they had a higher bartering value than beads and trinkets.