Whatever shortcomings people ascribe to dwarves, a recent study on Ecuadorian little people might finally convince some bigoted members of the larger society to stop selling them short.
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http://tvnz.co.nz/health-news/dwarfs...r-cure-4034349
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For 22 years around 100 members of the Laron dwarfs community have been closely monitored by researchers from the University of Southern California, ABC reports.
They have discovered almost no cases of cancer or diabetes amongst the group, who all live in a remote village on the slopes of the Andes Mountains in the Loja province of southern Ecuador.
The Larons all suffer from mutated genes that lower their growth hormone activity, stunting their growth.
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