FROM EGYPT TO HAWAII Records that go back as far as the early findings of the existence of man show our ancestors were eating fruits and vegetables.  It has only been within the last 10,000 years that our ancestors began to eat grains. This trend started in the Upper Nile River of Egypt when people began to see the advantages of staying in one place and growing crops.  It was time consuming to walk the forests in search of fruits and berries, up and down hills, and sometimes traveling a long way foraging for food. It was much easier to chew a few grains.  Archaeological findings reveal Egyptians using their molar teeth more than they had in previous times. This indicates the beginning of whole grain consumption.  During this same period of history, findings show that the life expectancy of Egyptians decreased from about seventy-five years old, all the way down to thirty-five years of age.  Later evidence shows a lesser use of the molars as time went along, but a higher degree of tooth decay due to the start of milling and baking. High consumption of grains meant clearing forests to make space for grain fields, and the green forest wood was used as fire wood for baking.  The result was the green forests of the Sahara became a desert.   I learned that many archaeologists believe present inhabitants of the Polynesian Islands originally migrated from Egypt to Sumatra and onto Polynesia.   As Egypt became a desert, tribes foresaw the danger of their extinction. Tribal members asked their spiritual leaders to call upon the Mana, or spiritual, powers to search the globe to find a safe place to go and practice their beliefs, while maintaining their style of living and healthy way of eating.  They chose a place they had never seen, isolated in the middle of Pacific Ocean.   The tribes left Egypt in large double canoes up to four hundred feet long, migrating through the Red Sea and into the Indian Ocean. They traveled along the coast of Africa to Madagascar, and at least one tribe remained in Madagascar. This is evidenced by people there today with light brown skin color that speak one of the Polynesian dialects called Malagasy.  The rest eventually made their way to Sumatra and onto the Fiji Island.  Clay pottery found in Fiji has the same decorative style as pottery found in Sumatra.  Such ship building and navigation skills are testaments to the significant intelligence of these early Polynesian-Hawaiian people.