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Nutrition and Physical Degeneration (Paperback)
by Weston Andrew Price
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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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Author: Weston Andrew Price
Publisher: Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation
Pub. in: January, 2004
ISBN: 0916764087
Pages: 524
Measurements: 8.8 x 5.8 x 1.3 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00964
Other information: Sixth edition
ISBN-13: 9780916764081
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The book was written in the 1930s, but it is nonetheless prophetic of the ominous trends that punctuate modern technology, and it is a timeless classic. |
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This is not just a book about nutrition, although even in that genre it is the best of its kind ever published. This is a book about mankind, human progress, social harmony, the roots of crime, the foundation of happiness.
This book distills the research of Weston A. Price, a dentist and independent nutrition researcher. In a decade of travel around the world, Price and his wife studied the health, dietary habits, and chemical composition of food of dozens of traditional peoples of various racial backgrounds. His research was done at a time when many such groups still lived free of the influence of Western civilization and what he called "foods of commerce," i.e. heavily refined and denatured foods. One could question whether 60 plus year old research is relevant today, but his work is powerful and persuasive even today. If what Dr Price had alarmingly brought to our attention in the 1930s about the highly processed foods we should not eat had been followed, the people in this world now would be healthy, happy and in harmony. Instead we have a society where 85% are overweight, 90% have vitamin/mineral deficiencies, almost every child needs orthodontia, has acne, needs glasses, has asthma etc. All these modern conditions are caused by nutritional deficiencies in parents prior to conception or in the child while growing up. Usually both are present. Then there are all the mental problems caused by nutritional deficiencies: crime, delinquency, depression, Alzheimers etc.
Basically, Price sought out the healthiest people on Earth and studied what they had done for hundreds and thousands of years to stay healthy. He looked at their Traditional diets as well as what happened when they adopted Western diets. The results are in this book, and it is well worth your taking the time to read. While others have followed his work, the changing nature of the world now makes it impossible to duplicate his research today. His work stands as a pivotal piece in science and health as well as in history. This represents the cumulative knowledge of millions of people over thousands of years in a laboratory that includes the entire world. Price's findings are amply illustrated with an astonishing collection of photos. The people that pass for humans are plainly frightening. The "before and after" aspect of the hundreds of photos leaves the reader in abject shock. There is a real sense of horror, chapter after chapter, of seeing the after-effects of modern foods on various peoples. After reading this book, one may surmise that several factors have fallen into place.
This book is a spectacular read. Though it does deal primarily with Dr. Price's research, findings and discoveries on nutrition and physical degeneration, there are so many rewards otherwise. This is a first-rate travelogue, superb cultural anthropological study, and an astonishingly thorough analysis of human behaviors. There are no words adequate to convey the impact, importance and timeliness of this book.
- From quoting Jon Norris, Niel Rishoi and Larry Cashion
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The primary criteria of the modern food distribution system is how cheaply can the wholesaler get it for and does it have good shelf life. Weston Price documents repeatedly that modern denatured food is the major cause of the degenerative diseases and the overall poor health of our society. While pundits claim how good the modern diet is by showing how much taller we are than our ancestors, the author points out that elongation of the skeletal "long bones" is a symptom of malnutrition. The acute deficiency of trace elements in plants grown on worn out fields was documented by Price 60 years ago. You would do better to get your needed nutrients from your food rather than high priced supplements. But what farmer is putting more than NPK on his fields? Price's book is even more true than when he wrote it. If you care about immune dysfunction, fatigue, heart disease, cancer, or slowing the aging of your body, Price's book is a must read!
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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. |
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. |
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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