Native Diets and Tooth Decay

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[RH] Good points Allan. There are mountains of evidence that eating

excessive animal products, refined and devitalized foods, really do us

in.

 

You are using some common sense. I find it funny that man doesn't

recognize how much his newfangled diet is killing him.

 

I just started reading a book called " Nutrition and Physical

Degeneration, " by Weston Price, who was a dentist. In the book he

traveled and studied all sorts of native cultures. Without a doubt

whenever these cultures ate their native foods, they had excellent

health, and immunity from most diseases. They had virtually no cavities

and didn't even know about brushing their teeth.

 

They gave birth easily without the need of doctors. Kids whose parents

ate white man imported foods developed a smaller dental arch and

therefore their teeth came in all crooked. Their facial structure

changed within the first generation of poor eating habits. As soon as

they started eating these foods, the amount of cavities skyrocketed.

Many of these native races virtually died out, due to tuberculosis.

 

It's funny that they didn't make the connection to the food that the

white or (civilized) man brought to them. If they went back to their

native foods, the cavities stopped developing and they had natural

immunity from illness.

 

One surgeon who worked with Eskimos and other's in Alaska for 37 years,

noticed that the Eskimos who maintained their traditional diets never

had the diseases that everyone else got and didn't need surgeries.

 

These native diets in my opinion are not ideal either. It is well known

that the Eskimos also had high osteoporosis and a short lifespan. But it

is obvious they were much healthier than eating white bread and canned

foods.

 

Anyway, Dr. Price went all around the world in his studies of natives

and when they got into contact with western diets. The book is about 500

pages long with many pictures to back up what he was saying. The book

was written in 1939. It's too bad we blamed everything on germs. But it

seems it has much more to do with diet.

 

Now that I eat raw I have no problems in my mouth. My gum lines aren't

receding anymore. I don't get infections in my mouth. I don't have to

worry about my teeth anymore.

 

The medical and the food industries are tied together. If everyone just

ate a healthy raw diet, there would be very little need for drugs,

doctors and dentists. We'd still need emergency repairs so to speak, but

sickness and disease would be rare.

 

It was very interesting to note that the natives, who only ate their

native foods, never got tuberculosis. Even though others nearby did. So

they were strong enough to resist it, or maybe there was no reason for

them to catch it in the first place.

 

Many of the native cultures almost died out due to rampant disease. Why

did they want to copy our diets so much? If they only knew, they had to

go back to their old ways and everything would be better.

 

Most of us are too many generations away from ideal health to know that

such a thing existed. We have been genetically damaged by the diets of

our parents and their parents. So we shouldn't expect perfection in the

first generation going back to a raw diet. But in future generations I'm

sure the health and vigor will get progressively better.

 

Of course, our health will improve quite a bit, but we may still have

some problems we can't completely overcome, due to damage from the

parent's diet.

 

You may want to visit this website that has many articles related to Dr.

Price's work.

 

http://www.price-pottenger.org/articles.htm

 

Roger