It's online! Weston A. Price's pivotal work on nutrition, and a must read for anyone with even a passing interest in dietary health.
Go here: http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/price/pricetoc.html
Who is this guy, you ask? From the WAPF (Weston A. Price Foundation):
"Dr. Weston A. Price, a Cleveland dentist, has been called the "Charles Darwin of Nutrition." In his search for the causes of dental decay and physical degeneration that he observed in his dental practice, he turned from test tubes and microscopes to unstudied evidence among human beings. Dr. Price sought the factors responsible for fine teeth among the people who had them- the isolated "primitives." The world became his laboratory. As he traveled, his findings led him to the belief that dental caries and deformed dental arches resulting in crowded, crooked teeth and unattractive appearance were merely a sign of physical degeneration, resulting from what he had suspected-nutritional deficiencies.
Price travelled the world over in order to study isolated human groups, including sequestered villages in Switzerland, Gaelic communities in the Outer Hebrides, Eskimos and Indians of North America, Melanesian and Polynesian South Sea Islanders, African tribes, Australian Aborigines, New Zealand Maori and the Indians of South America. Wherever he went, Dr. Price found that beautiful straight teeth, freedom from decay, stalwart bodies, resistance to disease and fine characters were typical of primitives on their traditional diets, rich in essential food factors.
When Dr. Price analyzed the foods used by isolated primitive peoples he found that they provided at least four times the water soluble vitamins, calcium and other minerals, and at least TEN times the fat soluble vitamins from animal foods such as butter, fish eggs, shellfish and organ meats. "(http://www.westonaprice.org/brochures/wapfbrochure.html#about)
It's not a quick read - bookmark it and return often. Why this study has not formed the basis of our current dietary guidelines just baffles me.
1.25.2007
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration Online!
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Thank you for your clever comments on this book!
I wonder what do you think about some remaining controversy on this book, which is described here:
"Nutrition and Physical Degeneration"
http://science-library.blogspot.com/2007/06/nutrition-and-physical-degeneration.html
shorter link:
http://tinyurl.com/2cx8vt
Perhaps you could please post your opinion there for other readers.
Thanks!
Hi there,
I don't take much of what Quackwatch says seriously, but their arguments against Price are not very well thought out. A whirlwind tour? Things like that suggest the criticisms are not based on scientific arguement but on theoretical...maybe Price's work grates against the QW belief system somehow. Not surprising, since a diet high in fat and full of animal products goes against everything our current medical establishment reccommends.
Personally, I think Price gives great guidelines for healthy eating. They're simple and concentrate on whole, natural foods, traditionally prepared. What is there to argue?
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