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" Nutrition and Physical Degeneration "

by Weston A. Price, DDS, 1939,

50th anniversary edition 1989,

Keats, ISBN 0-87983-502-8

 

 

Weston A. Price (1870-1948) discovered what health is made of, and proved it.

In the early 1930s Price and his wife ( " Mrs Price " ) travelled more than

100,000 miles to study the diets and health of isolated primitive peoples in

Africa, South America, Australia, Polynesia, Europe and northern Canada, at a

time

when such communities still existed.

 

Price undertook amazing journeys into the wilds to seek out people " who were

living in accordance with the tradition of their race and as little affected

as might be possible by the influence of the white man " .

 

Wherever he found them -- regardless of race, diet and climate -- they were a

" picture of superb health " : they had superb physiques, perfect teeth, no

arthritis, no tuberculosis, no degenerative diseases, and they were cheerful,

happy, hardy folk.

 

That changed radically when he compared them to other, less isolated groups

of the same peoples, charting a catastrophic health decline the closer they got

to the " trade foods " produced by industrial society (processed foods grown by

synthetic farming methods), in the shape of the " white man's store " .

 

He found it takes only one generation of eating industrialized food to

destroy health and immunity.

 

Price was a fine scientist and a thorough investigator and collected an

enormous amount of data with thousands of supporting photographs -- his case

simply

doesn't leave any room for argument. We are all victims. But he leaves us

with the promise of regeneration. Thwarted health can be recaptured.

 

Price's book makes fascinating reading -- it's a great travelogue, full of

interest and charm, and essential to understanding the nature of food and

health. Price is truly " the Charles Darwin of nutrition " .

 

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price

-- full text online at the Small Farms Library

http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library.html

 

Note: " Nutrition and Physical Degeneration " is in the public domain in many

countries, and in other countries it is still under copyright protection.

Please check your country's rules at the following website to see if you are

entitled to free access or not (the book was written in 1939, Dr. Price died in

1948): http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/okbooks.html

 

Two reviews by Sally Fallon of the Weston A. Price Foundation

-- " Nutrition and Physical Degeneration " , with photographs and tables:

http://www.westonaprice.org/nutritiongreats/price.html

Weston A. Price and his work:

http://www.westonaprice.org/bookreviews/napd.html

 

Nasty, Brutish and Short, by Sally Fallon, The Ecologist, Jan/Feb 1999

http://www.westonaprice.org/traditional_diets/nasty_brutish_short.html

 

The Pioneering Research of Dr. Weston A. Price: The Whole, Natural Food Diet,

by Sally Fallon, Chronogram, 07 2004

http://www.chronogram.com/issue/2004/07/wholeliving/

 

The Neglected Nutritional Research of Dr. Weston Price, DDS -- Stephen Byrnes

 

http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/price_byrnes.html

 

Reflections on Reading Weston A. Price: Price's Dietary Wisdom by Michael

Babcock http://www.thaifoodandtravel.com/features/price.html

 

Buy " Nutrition and Physical Degeneration " and read more reviews at

amazon.com: http://snipurl.com/1jjp7

 

See also:

 

The Medical Testament published by the 31 doctors of the Cheshire Panel

Committee in England on March 22 1939, full text online at the Journey to

Forever

Small Farms Library.

http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library.html#medtest

 

The Saccharine Disease: Conditions caused by the Taking of Refined

Carbohydrates, such as Sugar and White Flour by T. L. Cleave, John Wright, 1974,

full

text online at the Journey to Forever Small Farms Library.

http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library.html#cleave

 

Nutrition and Health, by Sir Robert McCarrison -- McCarrison's Cantor

Lectures, to the Royal Society of Arts in 1936, Faber and Faber, London, 1953.

Full

text online at the Small Farms Library.

http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library.html#mcc

 

The Wheel of Health: A Study of a Very Healthy People

by G.T. Wrench, Daniel, 1938, full text online at the Journey to Forever

Small Farms Library.

http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library.html#Wrench_WoH

 

Ill Fares the Land

by Dr. Walter Yellowlees, The James MacKenzie Lecture, 1978; Journal of the

Royal College of General Practitioners, 1979, 29, 7-21. Full text online at the

Journey to Forever Small Farms Library.

http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library.html#iftl

 

 

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