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Weston A Price Is Making A Comeback
erhaps if the Internet had even serious deformities of the
been around in Dr. Weston face and jaw in many, if not
A. Price's day, more people most, of the children who were
would have heard and heeded his now coming to his office. There
message. Who know how many were major changes from their
countless lives would have been parent's generation. And bad
saved and spared terrible health was always closely linked
illnesses? to these people with dental
problems.
His message is especially
important to hear today. The fact So Dr. Price decided to do a
is that we are dying of lengthy study that took him
malnutrition. There are some in around the world for several
the medical community that would years, to find out why the health
have us believe that we are of the people in America was
healthier than people have ever declining. He had a theory that
been, but it is not true. Humans it was the introduction of modern
today are far unhealthier than processed foods that was causing
most humans who have lived in the decline, but I think even he
most any place in the world more was amazed at what he found out.
than 150 years ago. For several years he studied
thousands of people all over the
Dr. Weston A. Price saw it world. He was particularly
changing back in the 1930's and interested in comparing people
tried to warn the world. He was a who were still living in their
successful dentist practicing in traditional culture, relatively
Cleveland, Ohio in 1935, when he untouched by modern life, and
became very concerned at the people of the same racial stock
rapid rise of terrible dental who had adapted modern foods and
problems, massive tooth decay and ways.
deformities. They didn't suffer
He wrote a fascinating book on from heart disease, cancer, or
his findings, which fortunately obesity-- the plagues of modern
has been saved and is still being society. But when they adapted a
published for us by a foundation modern diet with white flour,
called The Price-Pottenger white sugar, white polished rice,
Nutrition Foundation ( processed oils, powered milk and
http://www.price-pottenger.org ). canned goods, they rapidly
This foundation was created after declined in health. They became
his death to save his research so quickly susceptible to diseases
that it will be available to us, and their children suffered from
and so the world will not forget terrible deformities.
it.
He carefully studied each of the
There is not room in this article traditional diets and compared
to explain all his intensive them to each other and to modern
scientific research and findings, diet, to find out what we were
but some of the things he found lacking. Some of the things that
flys in the face of what the all the traditional diets had in
medical community is still common besides not eating our
telling us about nutrition today. processed foods were:
He found that people who lived 1) They ate whole foods, such as
traditionally, no matter where freshly ground whole wheat flour
they were in the world, were of or oats.
far superior health. They had
perfect teeth and almost no tooth 2) They ate a much higher ratio
decay (and they didn't even of saturated fats than we do. The
brush!) They were strong, diets of the healthiest people
mentally alert, and free from all over the world contained 10
times the nutrients found in to the wise and nurturing
saturated fat than the American traditions of our ancestors
diet of his day. (And ours is rather than used as a force
even lower now!) destructive to the environment
and human health; and that
3) They ate fresh fruits and science and knowledge can
vegetables when they could get validate those traditions."
them.
More and more people are
4) They ate a lot of naturally rediscovering Dr. Weston A.
fermented foods and drinks, such Price's important work. Check
as cheese, yogurt, sauerkraut, into the solid research these two
and homemade low alcohol beer. foundations offer. It may be just
the missing information you need
The Weston A. Price Foundation ( to move you and your family
http://www.westonaprice.org ), towards a happier, healthier
another nonprofit organization lifestyle.
dedicated to spreading the word
about Dr. Price's findings, Dianne Ronnow "© 2006 Mohave
believe "that modern technology Publishing. All rights reserved.
should be harnessed as a servant
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