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Nutrition and Physical Degeneration (平装)
by Weston Andrew Price
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Dietary health & nutrition, Original books |
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| MSL Pointer Review:
This is not just a book about nutrition but also about mankind, human progress, social harmony, the roots of crime and the foundation of happiness. A first-rate travelogue, superb cultural anthropological study, and an astonishingly thorough analysis of human behaviors. |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-27 00:00>
Dr. Price hoped to influence the world to change their dietary habits. With just his wife and whatever bearers, guides, and drivers he could find, he single-handedly proved the diet-health link and backed it up with meticulous records and photographic evidence. He traveled to the far corners of the world to find the most primitive cultures on each continent, and compared their traditional diets to the standard Western diet. Photo after photo in his book points up the glaring difference between the health and Appearance of the natives of whatever culture nourished on their traditional diet and those whose diets had been disrupted and "displaced" by the "white diet"... a diet high in refined foods like white sugar, bleached white flour, polished rice, and synthetic fats. He also carefully laid out the guidelines for a natural unrefined diet that would be suitable for modern Americans. Too bad all that careful research and excellent advice has been ignored. Today's SAD (standard American diet) is a god-awful, unbalanced grain-heavy (65% "complex carbohydrates") piece of tomfoolery that bears no resemblance to the diet that nourished and nurtured our ancestors. If you never buy another book about nutrition, you owe it to your children and your grandchildren to buy This book, Read and Read It, and pass it down to your posterity. |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-27 00:00>
Hard to believe this was written in the 1930's. The pictures in this book tell everything. Notice how the primitives have perfect teeth, but they never brushed or cleaned them. It's also interesting how the people that ate grains had more cavities than those that didn't eat them. The healthiest folks were the ones that consumed seafood. What suprised me the most is when the author explains how cavities repair themselves when you start eating nutritious food. And there's an x-ray picture there so you can see. This was done on a child, so i don't know if it'll work for adults. I noticed that one of my cavities improved after i started eating healthier (a white layer covered half of it). The author also did a lot of experiments with animals, and there are some weird pictures that show the results. An incredible book!
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Ian Ivey (MSL quote), New Zealand
<2007-02-27 00:00>
I recently read a summary from a report covering functional foods released by the Boston Consulting Group where the statement was made that there "is increasing scientific evidence of a diet health link".
The primitive peoples studied by Weston Price knew that long ago. Their diets were finely tuned in with their genetic inheritance accumulated over tens of thousands of years of evolution.
Over the past 100 years or so, that inheritance has largely been either ignored or forgotten. We now have diets based on far too many food products which are not in tune with our genetic requirements. Minerals and vitamins, along with other complex natural components, are refined or "farmed" out of many foods.
We live longer but do we live more healthily? The huge increases in lifestyle related diseases (obesity, heart disease, diabetes etc.)and psychiatric problems suggest that is not the case.
Weston Price was an amazing man who saw and understood the cost of this deviation in our nutritional patterns from our inherited path. The old adage "one picture is worth a thousand words" is particularly applicable to this book. The photo records have an inestimable value for all time.
This book is as relevant today as it was when first published in 1939. |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-27 00:00>
This is one of the most amazing books on health I have ever read! Complete with pictures and documentation of various native races and the deterioration of their teeth, face, and bone structure when they went from their "native" diets and switched to "white man's" food. That is, mainly "white" flour, and "white" sugar (as well as other processed food). From this book I learned that these foods alter bone structure in ways not imaginable! Not only ruining the health of natives but destroying their magnificent and perfect teeth, thinning their skulls (and I thought I was a hardhead) and destroying their heritable bone lines within one generation!
If one examines his teeth, one can see the influence of eating these foods. You can even see the devastation in family and friends. Obviously, "enriched" flour still doesn't cut it as whole foods have the right Proportions of vitamins and minerals. I have since quit eating "health" sugars such as turbinado (it's not whole sugar) and have switched to Rapadura(TM), (it's whole sugar) and avoid white flour and nearly anything processed. This book really explains why we get cavities. We don't need to flouridate the water. There are many other things that Price mentions in his book of the devastation of modern diet too numerous to mention here but important.
Though this book was written in the 1930's it is remarkable how it seems to read like a modern day diet book, sometimes, as it mentions osteoporosis, heart disease and other supposedly "modern" ailments. |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-27 00:00>
This is one of the great classics of nutrition, and deserves a wide audience. See how Dr. Price travelled the globe and saw first hand how whole foods promote health, and refined ones destroy it. Learn also about "factor X," an important nutrient which can only be found in certain animal foods, and which is essential for optimal health according to Price. Filled with extraordinary pictures, this book should be in every nutrition library and be read by everyone who values their health.
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D. Saul Weiner (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-27 00:00>
One day we are told that fats are bad and that we must avoid them at all costs. Next we are told that carbs are the enemy. The experts cannot seem to make up their minds on which individual foods are good for you and which are bad. If all else fails, they fall back on the need for "moderation". Wouldn't it be nice if there were some really rock-solid nutritional research one could rely upon? Wouldn't it be comforting if we had research more compelling than "Food X just might raise your blood cholesterol a bit, and if that happens you just might be at a slightly higher risk for getting heart disease?"
Unbeknownst to practically everyone, there is a body of nutritional research in which we can have great confidence. Researchers can never carry out large-scaled controlled experiments on people but Weston Price did the next best thing and served as an eyewitness and recorder of nutritional experiments that tribes throughout the world had decided to undertake on their own. Side by side were groups that maintained their traditional diets with those that adopted the modern commercial diet of the 1930's. Price meticulously documented the results of these experiments and pinpointed the factors necessary for optimal health that were common to the successful traditional diets. And how did Price judge the efficiency of the alternate approaches to nutrition, by use of weak biological markers? No way, he focused on the incontrovertible results of dietary regimens, such as whether or not they supported the proper development of the dental arches (as opposed to causing crowded, crooked teeth or problems with one's bite), whether the diet conferred resistance to dental infection (or left one susceptible to the ravages of dental caries), and various other direct and significant measures of health and vitality. And he documented all of this with photographs as well.
If this were the extent of his research, it would be astonishing and compelling, but Price went beyond this series of studies to find corroborating evidence in a great variety of other studies performed by scientists of his day. He also verified his findings in studies of his own patients. When taken in aggregate, one cannot help but be in awe of what he accomplished, a series of undertakings which come across as heroic and superhuman to this mortal. Read this book and be a witness to a scientific study of unparalleled significance and scope. |
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-27 00:00>
This is the most amazing nutrition book I've ever read- and I've read many. The amount of data, the photographs, the anecdotes, all point to an obvious conclusion. I am simply shocked that his work is not better known. After reading this book I understand why the health of so many in the world today is so poor. This book provides all the answers. I know with absolute certainty now what constitutes a healthy diet. This book will fascinate you, educate you, and leave you feeling shocked. Highly recommended!
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R. Haeckler (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-27 00:00>
This book was amazing! It changed my diet and now, thanks to the ongoing information from the Weston A. Price Foundation www.westonaprice.org I feel healthier than I ever have!
He explored how the healthiest people on the planet ate, how it affected their teeth and overall health. He drops hints at the incredibly exciting life he had, like mentioning that he and his wife met a cannibal chief on the Pacific Islands, travelled to Alaska, and climbed the Swiss Alps. And he found that age old dietary wisdom beats modern convenience foods hands down.
One unexpected find that I've shared with some dentist friends is that he had a special diet that stopped the progression of cavities and actually re calcified the deteriorating teeth.
The only flaw in the book was that I think he overlooked the very important role of salt in the native's diets. They used it to preserve their food, and those who ate modern foods ate much less, since it was canned.
Overall, a very good and important book! I'd recommend reading it with Andre Voisin's book, "Soil, Grass, and Cancer" as together they paint an amazing picture of what is happening to the human race. |
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