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Dr. Price was a Cleveland dentist, who has been called the
"Charles Darwin" of Nutrition. Searching for the causes of dental decay
and physical degeneration he observed daily in his dental practice, he
turned from test tubes and microscopes to study "people with fine
teeth" -- the isolated "primitives".
Traveling worldwide, 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.
These
primitives stand forth in sharp contrast to those subsisting on the
"impoverished foods of civilization" -- sugar, white flour, pasteurized
milk, and convenience foods filled with extenders and additives.
His
worldwide findings clearly showed 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.
Dr. Price's
classic volume, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, is published by
and available from the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation (Click Here
to purchase). *Its photographs illustrate in an unforgettable way the
physical degeneration that occurs when human groups abandon nourishing
traditional diets in favor of modern convenience foods.
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 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.
The importance of good nutrition
for mothers during pregnancy has long been recognized, but Dr. Price's
investigation showed that primitives understood and practiced
preconception nutritional programs for both parents. Many tribes
required a period of premarital nutrition, and children were spaced to
permit the mother to maintain her full health and strength, thus
assuring subsequent offspring of physical excellence. Special foods
were often given to pregnant and lactating women, as well as to the
maturing boys and girls in preparation for future parenthood. Dr. Price
found these foods to be very rich in fat soluble vitamins A and D
nutrients found only in animal fats.
These primitives with
their fine bodies, homogeneous reproduction, emotional stability and
freedom from degenerative ills stand forth in sharp contrast to those
subsisting on the impoverished foods of civilization-sugar, white
flour, pasteurized milk and convenience foods filled with extenders and
additives.
