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Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects Paperback – 2 May 2010

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"Dr Price might well be called 'The Charles Darwin of Nutrition'." - The Laryngoscope, 1950.

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, a compendium of ancestral wisdom, is a ground-breaking work in nutrition. Price liberally included illustrations and wrote in non-technical language to make the book as accessible as possible.

Weston Price, a dentist with an interest in nutrition and health, travelled the globe, and observed the dietary habits of several diverse cultures, including the isolated Lötscher in Switzerland, Native Americans, Polynesians, Pygmies, and Australian Aboriginals. He observed that various diseases endemic to Western industrial societies of the 1920s and 1930s were rarely present in the indigenous populations he visited, but that as these groups abandoned their ancestral diet and adopted Western diets, they showed increases in typical Western diseases. He concluded that the modern Western diet, and, in particular, sugar, flour, and processed vegetable oils are responsible for these diseases and that Western methods of commercially preparing and storing foods stripped away vitamins and minerals necessary to prevent disease.

Initially, the medical and scientific communities vigorously rejected this controversial work as lacking scientific precision; nevertheless, research has confirmed his conclusions and modern medical orthodoxy is slowly accepting that lifestyle and diet are a major factor, perhaps the major factor, in the degenerative diseases that have beset the developed world. A plethora of health-promoting diets have sprung from his observations including Paleo, keto, primal blueprint and the ancestral diet movement. Many have credited this book with greatly improving their health.

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Is Weston Price's original edition.
Contains 134 original images and additional maps.
Is set in an easy to read 11-point font.

Weston A. Price (1870 -1948) was a Canadian-born dentist. While practicing in the United States, he conducted research, developed new dental techniques and equipment and published research papers and a textbook. He soon came to believe that nutritional deficiencies are largely responsible for dental caries. To investigate this, he visited the isolated people of Lötschental in Switzerland in 1931. He saw that they had excellent teeth but, more than that, they enjoyed outstanding general health and vigour, and soon he was travelling the globe cataloguing indigenous people's diets and comparing the health of those who had maintained their ancestral diet and those who had starting consuming modern Western foods. He published this now famous work in 1939. Travelling the world, observing and recording, like Darwin, he made a revolutionary discovery that is slowly percolating into medical science.

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1849027706
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978-1849027700
Publisher

Benediction Classics
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2 May 2010
Language

English
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15.24 x 2.36 x 22.86 cm
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418 pages
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Benediction Classics (2 May 2010)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 418 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1849027706
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1849027700
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.24 x 2.36 x 22.86 cm

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M. Sawyer

Buy version published by Price Pottenger it has more chapters than the Benediction Classics one

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I originally bought the version published by Benediction Classics which has only 411 pages of 21 Chapters, my fault for being stingy. So I ended up also buying the Price Pottenger version 528 pages 31 Chapters as I did not know what information I was missing. The book was fascinating and an essential read to see how the "modern" way of feeding ourselves and not looking after the land means we are depriving our bodies of essential minerals and fat-soluble activators . This was know about in the 1930s we are less physically well than our great-grand parents and "Primitive" people are being decimated by modern food ie sugar, jam white bread etc.

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satka

Great book!

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A book which is rarely read....i found out about it on my macrobioitics levels courses at kushi institute in 2012....highly intreasting and researched by this dentist who was clearly ahead of his time. ive recc it to many ptractitioners in health....nutritionists, therapists etc....its not well known...fascinating read of a study that is well researched & not much is known about. The distinct changes re diet in countries where good health teeth etc were a given and then the change in natural diets and foods lifestyle affects is quite dramatic looking at the generations.....A must for anybody whose studying or intreased in dietary influences!! *****

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Harvs

Eye Opening Insight into a world fast disappearing

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When I was young, I always wondered how people in the olden days brushed their teeth without toothpaste. To me, I had always been told if you don't brush your teeth they will fall out so it struck me how people used to live before toothpaste was even a thing. I just assumed they had bad teeth! This book tells a very different story and shows, via case studies and evidence, that those on low carb diets had almost no cavities throughout their life. This isn't simply no sugar, no cavities, it goes deeper showing how the very structure of the teeth and facial bones is affected from poor diet. The studies from all corners of the earth tell a sad story of how humans have forgotten how to eat for health and far and how far we have moved backwards. These indigenous people who have kept to their old diets are lean, healthy, have almost no disease and have the most incredible teeth despite not brushing them daily. There is also a fascinating section on pregnancy and how diet affects unborn babies. A must read!

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Dr Weston A Price: Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.

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I bought this book as I wanted to read Dr Price's study for myself, instead of reading other people's interpretation of it. I found it enlightening and informative, and it reinforced what I had already experienced for myself with my own health when eating the westernised diet, and then switching to local, clean organic, meats, fish, dairy products and available veg, and cutting out refined junk food.

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Great read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 6 January 2020

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Contains the answers to teeth and gum problems, explains why our diets give us disease compared to others.

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Chris X

Intriguing

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 18 May 2019

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Very interesting research done into the topic, a must read for everyone to understand the effects of diets.

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fatbelly

Fascinating

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Some dated terminology and concepts but nevertheless, a fascinating piece of research.

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