Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
by Weston A. Price
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Author: Weston A. PriceEditor: Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Published)
Published: 2008-01-31
ISBN: 0916764206
Number of pages: 527
Publisher: Price Pottenger Nutrition
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Book Review: People take this book too seriously
Summary: 1 Stars
Some people I know refer to this book and live and die by it like they have been brainwashed.
Basically, weston price found that people who ate processed foods had more tooth decay.
He said going back to a native diet would reverse tooth decay if you had it.
So what ? This book is far too long. The book never ends. Weston Price just wants to let everyone know that we are all a bunch of ignorant pigs who live on processed food and that the people who he found are all superior to us.
This book is just a Weston Price ego trip, saying how great he is under a cover of supposed healthy information. The book, is a difficult read. The never ending sentences, badly written, not quick to the point, very slow, very dreary, a pain to the eyes basically. Reading this book is exhausting, for all the wrong reasons.
Some people read this book, and start eating raw eggs, raw dairy, raw meat and expect to become super healthy. Get a life.
The main problem I have with this book is the attitude. Weston Price wants to make everyone feel inferior to these people who live on a native diet.
He describes various groups from all over the world, explaining why they are superior to everyone in the industrialised western world.
Weston Price says we are ignorant to the information of native tribes and ignorant to their culture. I would argue the same for them. Works both ways. Technology is not always a bad thing. We went wrong when it came to what we eat though, so I agree with him on that.
I am simplifying it, but what else did he find out except that eating processed food affects your dental arch and causes cavities etc etc and so on. He also makes a connection to diet and crime, and other connections of diet to other things like intelligence etc. He goes into detail about what animals should eat and avoid etc, yes, there is some good information here, but couldn't he present it a little better ?
Also, its not just the diet that is the important thing, it's the community and social interaction these groups of people had. This would make a huge difference in their health. There isn't much sense of community in industrialised cities.
Again, I have no idea why people rate this book so highly.
This book could easily be about 100 pages long. Maybe if he released a sequel summarising it in bullet points, maybe I would have more respect for him.
Why is this book a classic ? I have no idea. Maybe because he was the first person to discover this information. He was the first to write about what this industrialised 'white man' food did to damage us. But the information is simple. Its outdated too, considering everything else related to health in todays society.
This book only exists so people can use the phrase, ''but in the weston price book he says'', and so people can feel like they belong in a group because they read this book. There are some snippets of wisdom though.
I do not reccomend this book at all. Just visit the website, look at the information on what it tells you to avoid and what it tells you to do if you want information.
By the way, the website never ever ever responds to your emails.
I wrote to them regarding eyesight, and improving it naturally with diet and eye techniques and habits. I never got a response.
Also, what is the Weston Price foundation ? What do they do ? Why do they exist ? What would change if they didn't exist ? Their existence is pointless. How many times can you tell someone to eat grass fed butter before it gets annoying.
Summary of Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
New Expanded 8th edition with new photos and text.An epic study demonstrating the importance of whole food nutrition, and the degeneration and destruction that comes from a diet of processed foods.
For nearly 10 years, Weston Price and his wife traveled around the world in search of the secret to health. Instead of looking at people afflicted with disease symptoms, this highly-respected dentist and dental researcher chose to focus on healthy individuals, and challenged himself to understand how they achieved such amazing health. Dr. Price traveled to hundreds of cities in a total of 14 different countries in his search to find healthy people. He investigated some of the most remote areas in the world. He observed perfect dental arches, minimal tooth decay, high immunity to tuberculosis and overall excellent health in those groups of people who ate their indigenous foods. He found when these people were introduced to modernized foods, such as white flour, white sugar, refined vegetable oils and canned goods, signs of degeneration quickly became quite evident. Dental caries, deformed jaw structures, crooked teeth, arthritis and a low immunity to tuberculosis became rampant amongst them. Dr. Price documented this ancestral wisdom including hundreds of photos in his book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.
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