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Weston A Price, DDS. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, 1945, Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, San Diego, CA. This book can be ordered direct from the publisher at (619) 574-7763, or order from their website:(http://www.price-pottenger.org/books.html) I recently read an extraordinary and thought-provoking book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price, DDS. In the 1930's Price, a dentist from Cleveland, Ohio, became interested in the deteriorating dental and general health of his patients and of modern Americans. He noticed that each new generation seemed to have more cavities and more dental problems such as crowded teeth and narrow bridge formation, accompanied by an increase in other health problems, such as allergies, fatigue, behavioral problems and asthma. Suspecting that the cause of this worsening dental and overall health might be nutritional and suspecting the many processed foods in his patient's diets, Price decided to travel the world to examine firsthand cultures still eating their traditional diets, devoid of modern, processed foods. He eventually studied fourteen different cultures, including a remote island in Scotland, tribes in Africa, Eskimos in Alaska, Polynesian islands, and a village high in the Alps of Switzerland. Cultures with Radiant Health He found that, despite widely differing diets, all of the people he studied experienced radiant health with a nearly complete absence of dental problems. In some groups less than 1% of the permanent teeth were decayed -- in other words, he needed to examine three or four people to find one cavity. There was a nearly complete lack of degenerative illness. He was amazed to find cultures where no one had ever had tuberculosis (one of the major killers of his time) or cancer. Let me repeat this: the widely diversified cultures he studied all enjoyed radiant health, free from cavities, other dental problems, and degenerative illnesses. What is more, the people all seemed happy and there were no prisons or jails -- because there was no need for them. However -- and this is a big however -- within one generation of the introduction of modern foods, usually white flour, sugar, jam, canned foods and the like, these people began to suffer from the same health problems that plagued modern (1930's) civilization. While eating traditional foods there were virtually no dental problems that in modern culture would require orthodontics -- narrow bridges, crowded teeth, overbites. Yet when the parents (not the children) began eating processed foods, these problems appeared in the next children born. One generation is all it took to destroy radiant health and replace it with orthodontic defects, rampant tooth decay and degenerative illness. In many instances Price was able to compare the native peoples on their traditional diets with white settlers who were eating modern, processed foods: the contrast of native health with the settler's health problems is most striking. Page 28| Abby's Magazine - www.AbbysMag.com