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Author: Weston A. Price, D.D.S.

ISBN: 0 - 87983 - 816 - 7

 

Reviewed by Marjorie Tietjen [below article]

 

 

 

 

 

The foods we choose to eat and the manner in which we prepare them directly

determines our health and the health of our children and grandchildren.

Nowadays, dietary advice shifts with the wind. Fad diets and even advice from

our

supposed experts in the field of nutrition, is often based on monetary gain.

As a result we are often in a state of confusion, perplexed as to which

recommendations to follow. No sooner do we become certain that " this is the

right diet " , then the opposite will be presented to us as fact. Everything is

contradictory.

 

 

 

I have often wondered why animals in the wild, know just what to eat to keep

themselves healthy and strong, yet modern humans seem to have no clue.

Having basically severed our partnership with nature, we have lost our

God-given

intuitive knowledge.

 

I am going to share with you some common sense ideas from the book Nutrition

and Physical Degeneration by Weston Price. Dr. Weston Price, who was a

dentist, traveled around the world in the 1920s and 30s comparing the diets of

remote indigenous groups to those who lived in the more civilized areas.

Because Dr. Price was a dentist, he focused much of his attention on facial and

jaw

structure. However, he also observed disease susceptibility in both groups.

He took hundreds of photos which compare the dental arches, dental decay

and facial formations of those eating their pure native diets to those who had

been introduced to the refined foods, such as white rice, white flour,

refined sugar and pasteurized milk. The differences were dramatic and sometimes

horrifying.

 

In recent years we have been conditioned to believe that meat and other

animal products are fatty and unhealthy and that this is what causes heart

attacks. Weston Price shares with us, from first hand observation and

research,

that as long as the animals are fed their natural diets, then they will confer

their immunity from disease to us. People often wonder if humans benefit from

including at least some animal products in their diets. Here is an

interesting quote from page 142 . " Several of the tribes neighboring Ethiopia

are

agriculturists and grow corn, beans, millet, sweet potatoes, bananas, Kafir

corn, and other grains, as their chief articles of food. Physically they are not

as well built as either the tribes using dairy products liberally or those

using fish from the fresh water lakes and streams. They have been dominated

because they posses less courage and resourcefulness. "

 

The book speaks of eating meats raw , at times ,and especially the organ

meats, to preserve their enzymes and other unidentified factors. Another

controversial example of consuming raw foods would be using uncooked and

unhomogenized milk for drinking and cheese making. I would have to agree that

drinking

unpasteurized milk from factory raised cows would be a dangerous prospect.

The animals are kept in very close quarters, fed grain instead of their natural

diet of fresh grass and are given antibiotics and injected with hormones.

Because they are being fed a food which is historically foreign to their

bodies, their immune systems suffer and they acquire diseases easily.

Again...they

pass on their state of health to us. Cows which are allowed to graze in the

fields and fed either no grain or a minimum of grain, are mostly healthy and

free from disease. Unheated milk from certified farms rarely causes problems.

 

Homogenization breaks up the fat particles in the milk to a very fine size.

It is suspected that this process makes it possible for the fat particles to

go through the artery walls, which wouldn't naturally occur. Homogenization

is primarily for convenience purposes so it could easily be done away with.

Why do humans keep thinking we can improve on nature?

 

Many indigenous rural groups would not allow girls to marry until they

received a diet consisting of special strengthening foods. Six months of

increased

nutrition was usually the minimum. These people, without degrees in

chemistry, nutrition or biology, were instinctively aware of what foods pregnant

women needed to produce sturdy, well formed offspring. Such foods as salmon

eggs

and organ meats were considered to be highly desirable.

 

The author noticed that there were no doctors or dentists in the outlying

areas where people consumed food that was locally available and unprocessed.

There was also no need for jails because there were no criminals. Price

includes photos of criminals which show the typical underdevelopment of their

facial

structure, which also correlated with their diets.

 

It's simple.....those who lived in the remote areas away from processed

food, were the happiest and the healthiest.

 

Dr. Price presented a very interesting observation. Not only did those who

ate the modernized diets have malformed dental arches (not enough room for

their teeth) but their chins were receding, their noses pinched, with sinuses

affected and other abnormalities. It made sense to me that this is one reason

we have so many mouth breathers and people with sinus problems. The shape of

the whole skull is often determined by maternal nutrition and I would like to

present a specific case from Price's book.

 

Dr. Price paid particular attention to a sixteen year old boy who had Down's

Syndrome (or what they termed mongolism) and had been born to an older

mother who was sickly at the time of his conception. Down's Syndrome often

occurs

in children of mothers who are over 40 or to mothers experiencing

reproductive exhaustion. Dr. Weston Price felt that perhaps the crowding of the

pituitary gland caused by constrictive jaw structure, contributed to the

underdeveloped sexual organs and mental capacities.

 

Through surgery Dr. Price widened the boy's maxillary arch, which resulted

in improvement of the mongoloid features and a definite increase in mental

abilities. The boy wore an appliance in his mouth to keep the bones in place

but when it subsequently became dislodged, he reverted and many of his previous

abnormal characteristics returned.

 

I have only touched upon some of the valuable information in this book of

over 500 pages and with 154 photos and illustrations. This monumental work is

a must read for anyone who is concerned about their own health, the health of

their families and the future of the whole human race. The information it

contains is key to the survival of our species. We desperately need to return

to a simpler way of life which includes families and communities producing

their own foods. Of course in the cities this is not entirely possible, but we

need to begin somewhere. Support your local farmers and encourage them to

produce their food in the most natural way possible. This will be a major step

in

taking back the control and safety of our food supply. We must begin now to

avoid the restrictive laws (under the guise of protection) which are

traveling towards us, down the road, at an ever increasing speed.

 

For more information, please visit the Price Pottenger Nutrition Foundation

at _www.ppnf.org_ (http://www.ppnf.org/)

 

The above review was contributed by: Marjorie Tietjen: Marjorie is a

freelance investigative journalist with a B.S. in nutrition. She writes on

various

topics but has a special interest in public health, education and awareness.

Her writings can be found online and in several print publications. To read

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