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Nutrition and Physical Degeneration |  | Author: Weston Andrew Price
Publisher: Keats Pub
Category: Book
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Rating:  68 reviews
Sales Rank: 266718
Media: Paperback
Edition: 6th
Pages: 524
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.3
ISBN: 0879838167
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.39
EAN: 9780879838164
ASIN: 0879838167
Publication Date: June 2003
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First published in 1939, this seminal book startled the worlds of science and nutrition with its documented evidence of primitive populations encountering civilisation, adopting modern diets, and finding that their health worsened. It remains the basic book in this area and is essential reading for those concerned with food and health.
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Essential Reading for the Nutritionist October 9, 2009
W. B. Perry (GA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This book may have saved my life. It surely gave me the impetus to switch from a nutrient deficient, anti-nutrient replete vegan diet to a healthy diet rich in animal products such as grass-fed beef, wild caught fish, patured chicken, high vitamin butter oil, cod liver oil, butter and milk in addition to a moderate amount of fruits and copius amounts of green vegetables.
Price examines primitive cultures to see what they eat and what are the results. The healthiest cultures ate no modern "foods of commerce", but ate primarily meat, some dairy, some tubers, and even blood. People that had begun to eat modern food were riddled with cavitations and crowded teeth. Price actually set out to prove that a vegetarian diet was the best, and he was sorely disappointed to find out how necessary animal products were. Once he made this discovery he immediately informed his family and the public of his findings instead of trying to peddle vegan propaganda like some authors do.
Excellent Dr. Price. October 3, 2009
Robert McRobert (Florida)
Dr. Price's research demonstrates how nutrition affects physical health, and what we need to do to incorporate health-giving, nutrient-dense foods into our diet. The book is complete with scores of documentary photos of native peoples at the edge of contact with "modern" foods.
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Why Wasn't This Taught in School?? September 29, 2009
P. Malone (Boise, ID USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
It is amazing that Dr. Price's research was started more than 80 years ago, yet it is probably the most relevant book that a person could read in regard to the current crisis over health care coverage in the US. Dr. Price points how the modern high-calorie, low nutrition diet has led to the creation of professional dentistry and orthodontia, due to it causing a significant increase in dental caries and malformed dental arches - problems that largely did not exist in the isolated peoples that he studied. He also shows us how the same flawed nutrition by either parent can lead to deformities and crippling diseases for their offspring - a scary thought with the increasingly nutritionless diets of today's youth. Today it is clear that this same diet is responsible for the explosion in the number of people with metabolic syndrome who are at risk for diabetes, heart disease and a host of other degenerative diseases as they reach the prime of their lives. Clearly what we eat is making us sick, so sick that our society clearly will not remain sustainable in the very near future. I can't think of a more worthwhile book to read to improve your life and the lives of future generations.
If you desire health this is a must read book September 5, 2009
C. Burns
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I can't say enough good about this book. It is an eye opener and an absolute must read. Price chronicles the destructive influences wrought by the processed foods of western civilization. I would read several other books in conjunction with this book. If you can find a copy of Vilhaljmur Stefanssons "The Fat of the Land" or the similar "Not by Bread Alone" you will it valuable. Lutz'z "Life Without Bread" details a German doctors career of treating patients witj many diseases by removing procesed carbs from the diet. Walter Voegtlin's "The Stone Age Diet" is a revelation and increibly hard to find. There are none to be found on Amazon or on ABE though there are about 20 copies listed in University libraries; try to borrow one to read. Current books that are valuable are Gary Taubes opus "Good Calories, Bad Calories" and Barry Groves "Trick and Treat". Reading, absorbing and putting into place what you learn in the above books will allow you to take charge of your health and greatly increase your chances of avoiding the diseases of civilization. And you'll know far more about what to feed yourself than the medical profession who is largle doing the bidding of big pharma and maga-agriculture.
Remarkable research that the AMA doesn't acknowledge August 28, 2009
Michael Moritz (Yakima, Wa United States)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Just read a review of this research by a dentist from the 1930's - 1940's who was looking for healthy gums and teeth around the world and found healthy immune systems as a result of food supply.
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