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Name: Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
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Author: Weston A. Price

Weston A. Price

A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and their Effects

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Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price shows how traditional societies maintained exceptional health through nutrient-dense foods, and how modern diets lead to physical degeneration and chronic diseases.

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What’s in it for me? Find out how to get the most out of your food.

More than ever before, the diet of the Western world is by and large made up of processed, inorganic foods. Even in those cases where we try to make healthy choices during trips to the supermarket – choosing whole-wheat bread over white bread, for instance – we end up with food that’s either completely stripped of its nutrients, or at best contains few of the nutrients required for maintaining a healthy body.

Such is the argument presented in Weston A. Price’s Nutrition and Physical Degradation, a seminal work on human nutrition first published in 1938. Price’s arguments were based on his travels to isolated indigenous communities, from the icy tundra to the bush of Central Africa. During his visits he learned from the locals, documenting in great detail their diets, their teeth, their facial structure and their rituals.

For those who are religious about keeping a balanced diet, who are planning to have kids, or who are forever stuck in the city, this book will be a startling revelation. It’s a formidable work that will transform your ideas about what you eat and drink, and prompt you to reevaluate how you care for your teeth and your body.

In these blinks, you’ll find out how some people can be in great health without eating vegetables.

You’ll find out why it is that certain people can go without brushing their teeth, and yet their teeth remain in perfect condition throughout their life.

Finally, you’ll learn why the fluctuating price of coconut meat, used to make coconut oil, affected the incidence of tooth decay in the South Pacific.

The natural, local diets of indigenous people equip them with healthy bodies.

Who are the healthiest people in the world?

Is it those who are forever committing themselves to the latest diets? Or is it those slaving away on the treadmill or the crosstrainer?

The answer is neither. Instead, the secret to good health can be found in the nutritious diets of the world's indigenous people.

Their diets are based on locally sourced foods high in vitamins and minerals. Take, for example, the Eskimo population of the Arctic. They eat caribou and some types of whale meat, and they also eat smaller quantities of seaweed and berries that they collect and freeze for consumption during winter.

Such diets have massive health benefits. For instance, they provide indigenous people with healthy teeth well into old age, without the help of toothbrushes or dentists. While, for example, Eskimos wear their teeth down to the gumline, the gum tissue itself doesn't recede. The flesh around the teeth is also healthy and the population is largely free from gum-tissue diseases like gingivitis.

Furthermore, Eskimos don't have fillings, even though they don't clean their teeth. This is because the minerals in their food generates saliva that hardens the teeth and protects against the bacteria responsible for tooth decay.

Another benefit of indigenous diets is that the bodies and organs of those who practice them are strong and resilient to disease. One doctor, who had over 30 years of contact with Eskimos and North American Natives, didn't report a single case of malignant disease in those who had stuck to their traditional diets. Also, any problems with their kidneys, stomachs, appendices or gallbladders were very rare.

The highly nutritious diet of indigenous societies is the result of centuries of development. Ancient skeletons found in the Andes, on the South African coast and in the Rhone Valley in France show that nearly all have excellent teeth and very few have tooth decay.

Processed foods are popular and convenient, but they cause tooth decay and illness.

In the Western world many of us are living in an era of abundance. With easy access to a wide range of cheap and tasty processed foods, like chocolate and white bread, it's no wonder that a diet of convenience has become the norm.

But is it healthy?

Processed foods are rich in calories but lacking in vitamins and minerals.

Because many of us lead a sedentary lifestyle, we require fewer calories than those who lead active lives. However, we also need to ensure we get enough vitamins and minerals.

Yet while much of the processed food that we eat provides us with the energy necessary for daily living – that is, enough calories – it has lost much of its nutritional value during the production process.

Local produce, like animal products or whole grains, is a powerful way of nourishing your body.

Take a look at your last supermarket receipt. How many of the items you bought are locally sourced? With a little research, you'll notice that many of the items were imported from distant places, and packaged to have the longest shelf life possible to increase its chances of being sold.

This is far from the perfect way to eat, especially when compared with the diets of indigenous people that are based on the food available in their local environment.

We can’t rely exclusively on vegetables to give us the strength we need.

You probably know at least a few vegans, who refuse to eat or make use of any animal products. You may even be a vegan yourself. It's true that there are many benefits to a vegan diet, but is it – as many believe – the best way to live?

Certainly some plants and vegetables are rich in nutrients and can fulfill essential dietary requirements.

We should give more back to our food sources, replenishing soil and providing animals with healthy living conditions.

As the global population swells, necessary advances in food production technologies and processes increasingly disconnect us from the sources of our food. This leads us to simply not care about the environments from which our food is derived.

This lack of care is risky, because it can result in a situation where we borrow nutrients from the soil but don't replenish them. Agriculture, for instance, results in soil depletion, diminishing its mineral content and productivity for an extended time. In fact, much of the mineral content of farmland, like the calcium and phosphorus in wheat or corn crops, is transported to cities where it’s deposited via sewers to the ocean, rather than returned to the soil.

A child’s health depends on the vitamins and minerals its parents consume, both before and after birth.

There's certainly no shortage of advice given to newly pregnant mothers on the do’s and don’ts of their diet for the next nine months. But in fact, the child's health also derives from the fertility of both parents before conception – a fact that is reflected in the diets of indigenous people.

Eskimos, for example, feed salmon sperm to men and fish eggs to women to increase their fertility – a practice shared by the indigenous people on the Peruvian coast. Such diets are rich in vitamins that are important to the development of traits like healthy eyes and strong bones in their offspring.

Final Summary

The key message in this book:

Because imported, processed food is often stripped of nutrients, we should avoid eating it as much as possible. Instead, we should eat food that is whole, natural, unprocessed and sourced from the local environment. This will help you get the most vitamins and minerals with which to maintain a healthy body and strong teeth.

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Based on the author’s meetings with many of the world’s indigenous people, Nutrition and Physical Degradation presents a comparison of the health of those who consumed only local whole foods and those who had begun to include processed foods in their diet. The author found that the latter suffered from problems with their teeth, bodies and brains, while the former remained strong and vigorous. Having investigated the differences between processed and local whole foods, the book argues that diets made up of processed foods lack the requisite vitamins and minerals for maintaining a healthy body.

Wer Nutrition and Physical Degeneration lesen sollte

Vegans, vegetarians and junk food fanatics
Anyone who is interested in indigenous cultures around the world
Anyone who wants to go back to basics and get the most nutrition out of their food

Über den Autor

Weston A. Price (1870–1948) was a dentist who spent 50 years researching the relationship between diet, nutrition and physical health. His research on indigenous diets opposed the orthodoxy, and his work reverberates among the whole-food movement even today.

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