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our reserves. I have read estimates that 16% up to 25% of the calories of Americans come from sugars or desserts -- about 1/4 of our diet. These people ate none. None! They were radiantly healthy. We are not. Are we really unable to perceive the obvious? And can we overestimate the importance of not having so many chemicals and additives in the diet? Each non- natural substance we add to a food is something else that our body has to deal with. Again, contrast these people, who were exposed to virtually no chemicals and additives and were radiantly healthy, to modern people, who are exposed to thousands of different chemicals and additives, and whose health is terrible. This shouldn't be very difficult to understand. Price even included a chapter on soil health which points out how quickly the dense nutrients created in topsoil over the millennia are used up and are no longer available to the food. It is so self-evident that the nutrients in the plant are dependent on the nutrient in the soil: studies are finding that organic food does have higher mineral and vitamin content as well as phytonutrients -- plant compounds that can fight cancer. (See "Organics for Health" by the Institute of Science in Society – http://www.isis.org.uk/OrganicsForHealth.php.) What else are we taking out of the soil that could help us achieve radiant health? There are a few things that Price did not find: • There were no vegetarians and there were no low-fat diets. • Certain of the populations (Swiss, African, Eskimo, Scottish) did not consume many vegetables yet remained healthy. • The diet of some populations -- the Masai of Africa, for example – consisted exclusively of meat (or blood) and full fat milk and yet there was an absence of the degenerative illnesses that modern medicine tells us will result from consuming such items. Abby's Magazine -Volume 5 Issue 6 | Page 31