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• Nearly every culture consumed some foods, often in large quantities, that are now considered unhealthy with no detriment to health: this included raw milk and cheese by the Swiss; red meat by the Masai; large amounts of fat eaten by the Eskimos; shellfish and coconut oil eaten by the Polynesians. Conclusions Since the 1930s there has been knowledge about how to be healthy that has been basically ignored. Weston Price teaches us that the only criteria for the food we eat ought that it be healthy, natural, and nutrient dense. The people he studied ate 100 percent whole, nutrient-dense, nourishing food. There were no cheats. Everything contributed, not detracted from, nutrition and health. Basically what he studied were people eating the foods that human beings evolved through millennia to eat. Every time we eat a processed or created new food, we are eating someone's attempt to improve upon nature and evolution: not necessarily a good idea, as the current epidemics of type II diabetes, cancer, heart disease and obesity in America shows us! Something very refreshing about the people he studied was that they were real people eating real foods. Too many diet or medical studies are of people eating someone else's modern idea about what constitutes nutrition. There is a reason that degenerative illnesses are considered diseases of civilization: Price confirmed that people eating the natural diets that we evolved to eat did not suffer from these illnesses. The first question that arose for me even while reading the book was why the information in this book was not common knowledge. It is so exciting to find out that there have been many people who did not suffer from the ill-health and degenerative illnesses that we simply take for granted. Why on earth is this book not the best- known book anywhere on health? The book makes it so obvious -- when previously healthy people begin eating processed foods such as sugar and white flour, they lose their health. So simple. Why is this not widely known? Why is this knowledge ignored?!!? The most important question that arises for me after reading this book is: how much do I want to gamble with my health? I ask you as well: how much do you want to gamble with your health and with the health of your children? How much sugar is too much? How much processed food can I eat without compromising my immune system? Do I feel as healthy as I would like? If these people were radiantly healthy without eating sugar and I do not have that level of health, do I want to continue feeling sub-par? Is eating sugar and processed food really worth remaining unhealthier than I want? Do I really want to replace living, healthy foods that provide health-giving substances that we haven't begun to discover with manufactured crap that "tastes" good but provides only processed, devitalized nutrients? I can imagine what it is like to be radiantly healthy every day of my life: why would I want to eat in a way that decreases the possibility of having that degree of well being? If these people were getting so many more vitamins and minerals from whole foods, shouldn't I start eating as many nutrient-dense foods as possible immediately? What am I waiting for? If you can honestly say that you have as much health as you would like, that you can't conceive of feeling better, than go ahead and ignore what Price found: eat all the processed foods and sugar you would like. But if you can conceive of feeling better, why on earth are you willing to take the chance of not improving your health? If you don't believe me I challenge you to read the book. Yes, but . . . Page 32| Abby's Magazine - www.AbbysMag.com