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Nutrition and Physical Degeneration Paperback – 1 Jan. 2009
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An epic study demonstrating the importance of whole food nutrition, and the degeneration and destruction that comes from a diet of processed foods.
For nearly 10 years, Weston Price and his wife traveled around the world in search of the secret to health. Instead of looking at people afflicted with disease symptoms, this highly-respected dentist and dental researcher chose to focus on healthy individuals, and challenged himself to understand how they achieved such amazing health. Dr. Price traveled to hundreds of cities in a total of 14 different countries in his search to find healthy people. He investigated some of the most remote areas in the world. He observed perfect dental arches, minimal tooth decay, high immunity to tuberculosis and overall excellent health in those groups of people who ate their indigenous foods. He found when these people were introduced to modernized foods, such as white flour, white sugar, refined vegetable oils and canned goods, signs of degeneration quickly became quite evident. Dental caries, deformed jaw structures, crooked teeth, arthritis and a low immunity to tuberculosis became rampant amongst them. Dr. Price documented this ancestral wisdom including hundreds of photos in his book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.
- ISBN-100916764206
- ISBN-13978-0916764203
- Edition8th
- PublisherPrice-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation
- Publication date1 Jan. 2009
- LanguageEnglish
- Dimensions22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm
- Print length527 pages
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- Publisher : Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation; 8th edition (1 Jan. 2009)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 527 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0916764206
- ISBN-13 : 978-0916764203
- Dimensions : 22.86 x 15.24 x 2.54 cm
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It is written in a really easy to read non-scientific style, which is good for me.
It has a chapter devoted to each of the 14 primitive people groups, comparing the health of those on the primitive diet to those on the western style diet. Followed by chapters on general dietary principles (5 of which are missing in the other edition).
I already hold to the theory he puts forth, through reading more modern alternative diet books, so he has nothing to sell me there but I am glad I finally got round to getting this great grandady of such research. It is invaluable because the world of such people living purely on their primitive diet has all but vanished and the will to pursue such studies is distinctly non PC. The China Study, for example, did not include native groups living on traditional diets. They would have skewed the data too much, I guess.
This is a bit dated as you will see when you see young Africans with nutritionally caused, facial abnormalities compared to chimpanzees and a picture of 2 children running round on all fours like monkeys. There is no malice however. Merely an observation.
Obviously it's not completely scientific, but when you see every group living off traditional high fat/protein/cholesteral food with less than 1% tooth decay and low related physical degeneration (of which tooth decay is merely an outward indicator) and the same people and surrounding people living on typical western high sugar/refined carbs diet having around 30% tooth decay and high related physical degeneration; it should make at least some of the china study devotees think.
People have been moving further from Weston Prices ideal, on the advice of the medical industry and food manufacturers and getting less healthy.
Perhaps it's time for a return to the basic old fashioned traditional nutrition set forth in this book.
God blessee.
Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved.
Note: this edition contains some very important chapters that have been dropped from some later editions.
Today people are getting fatter not because of saturated fat.








