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Nutrition and Physical Degeneration

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New Expanded 8th edition with new photos and text.

An epic study demonstrating the importance of whole food nutrition, and the degeneration and destruction that comes from a diet of processed foods.


For nearly 10 years, Weston Price and his wife traveled around the world in search of the secret to health. Instead of looking at people afflicted with disease symptoms, this highly-respected dentist and dental researcher chose to focus on healthy individuals, and challenged himself to understand how they achieved such amazing health. Dr. Price traveled to hundreds of cities in a total of 14 different countries in his search to find healthy people. He investigated some of the most remote areas in the world. He observed perfect dental arches, minimal tooth decay, high immunity to tuberculosis and overall excellent health in those groups of people who ate their indigenous foods. He found when these people were introduced to modernized foods, such as white flour, white sugar, refined vegetable oils and canned goods, signs of degeneration quickly became quite evident. Dental caries, deformed jaw structures, crooked teeth, arthritis and a low immunity to tuberculosis became rampant amongst them. Dr. Price documented this ancestral wisdom including hundreds of photos in his book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.

Reviews

Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-09-06
Summary: "Excellent book"

If this book does not convince you that there are some serious short-comings of the modern diet, nothing will. The book is not the best written, but is excellent in content. The book is scattered with small interesting details... one tribal group he encountered used coconut oil as a sunscreen. I found that very interesting. After reading about many of the groups he studied and looking at their diets, it becomes clear that processed sugars and carbs are a detriment to health. It was interesting how each groups diet was tailored to what was available in their local but many parallels emerge when comparing the various groups. I've only got through about half the book so far but I intend to read it all. Many of the groups he studied, he also sent samples of the food they ate back to a lab to be analyzed. These results are looked at in the second half of the book. The focus on the book is more on the dental effects of the modern diet, but many many other health effects can be gleamed from it. I highly recommend the book. The world is so connected nowadays, I don't think such a study could be done in modern times. This guy had a rare opportunity to study tribal groups separated from modern society at a time when this still existed. I doubt you could find this today, anywhere.

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Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2010-07-09
Summary: "valuable but old information"

The information presented on nutrition and physical degeneration was interesting, but old. I much prefer the books that are written based on current research.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-06-24
Summary: "This should be a text book in health at highschool"

If you are a therapist, a mother, somebody that has to cook for someone or naturist this is a must. Also all dentists should read this book and most doctors

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2010-06-20
Summary: "Best book on nutrition ever written!"

Dr. Weston Price travelled the world in the nineteen-thirties to research the effects of refined western diet on the health of as many different ethnic and cultural groups as he could possibly visit. These included "primitive" cultures in Asia, Africa and some remote islands. In his research, he studied each culture, one at a time, and divided it into two subgroups: those still living on the traditional, natural and unprocessed native diet, vs. those (in many cases their near relatives) living in cities on a "western" diet of refined and processed foods.

Over and over and over, the people on the native diets were far healthier than their city cousins. From one culture and location to another, the local diet varied considerably. Some diets were essentially meatless; but others were almost entirely animal-based. It didn't seem to matter. The key to superior health seems to have been not so much WHAT one ate, but the FORM in which it was eaten. For the best health, Price shows over and over again, their food needed to be in as NATURAL and UNPROCESSED a form as possible.

The urban population samples (living on the refined diet) had consistently bad teeth and bad overall health, as illustrated by dozens of striking photographs. Meanwhile, comparative photos show that people on the natural native diet--people of the exact same heredity--had beautiful teeth, entirely free of cavities, this despite often not knowing one end of a toothbrush from the other! (None of them had any fluoride in their drinking water, either.)

Conclusion for you and me? Eat food in as NATURAL a form as possible for the best health. Avoid processed foods like the plague, unless you want the kind of "health" the people in his pictures of city dwellers had.

The work of this great nutritional pioneer is carried on today by the Weston Price Institute.

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Rating: 3 / 5
Date: 2010-06-05
Summary: "On second thought"

I flipped thru the book and looked at the pictures (I admit I did not read it). The photos do not prove anything at all. It is quite easy to pick healthy people in any population and juxtapose them against not so healthy ones. I know I need to read the book, but the photos definitely turned me off.

I question his methodology. At least the pictorial presentation harmed my perception. I'm sure he has good arguments and I may follow some of his advice but I won't even attempt to read this almost dictionary length book. No way I have time for that. This book is way too long for me.

If he has made conclusions based on observation only, this is not science and his findings may or may not be true (I think more likely may not). It takes carefully constructed scientific studies over a long period of time to make reliable dietary conclusions. If he did not do this then beware. The methodology used is very important.

Can anyone recommend a much more brief source of info?

I'm returning this book.