Ancient Dietary Wisdom for Tomorrow's Children

I first started my journey in Nutrition via a little book I purchased while at a Standard Process Seminar in Columbus Ohio. I think I read Pottenger's Cats A Study In Nutrition in a few hours but the ideas present there in lead me to further study and today's realization that the diet (or lack of a good diet) is the core of the morbidity status of our society. The omission of processed foods and lowering of carbohydrates in general has brought about many positive changes to my body and mood. The most recent revelation noted was the condition of my teeth. As a coffee lover and flossing hater, I have not always been my hygenist's favorite patient. I really make her earn her fee! This last visit saw a drastic change in my oral condition. I had little tartar and no stains. The only change has been in my diet. Weston Price, a Cleveland Dentist, chronicled his journey to remote areas of the world where modern diets were not rampant. He noted perfectly straight teeth and overall health in these populations despite living in less than perfect conditions. The astonishing part about Dr. Price's research is that "Nutrition And Physical Degeneration" was first published in 1939! One can only imagine what the last 70 years has done to further erode our health and alter our genetic makeup.

CONCLUSIONS OF THE PRICE RESEARCH

•Dental decay is caused primarily by nutritional deficiencies.

•Although radically different, 14 tribal diets provided almost complete immunity to tooth decay and resistance to disease.

•The diets contained no refined or devitalized foods.

•Laboratory analyses revealed that all of these diets were unusually high in protein, vitamins, minerals and especially in fat soluble factors found in animal fats.

•Contact with civilization, followed by adoption of the "displacing foods of modern commerce," was disastrous for all groups studied.

•Rampant dental caries were followed by progressive facial deformities in children born to parents consuming refined and devitalized foods.

•These changes consisted of narrowed facial structure and dental arches, along with crowded teeth, birth defects and increased susceptibility to infectious and chronic disease.

•Significantly, when some natives returned to their traditional diets, open cavities ceased progressing and children subsequently conceived and born, once again had perfect dental arches and no tooth decay.

•If civilized man is to survive, he must incorporate the fundamentals of primitive nutritional wisdom into his modern life-style.

•The application of Price's findings in clinical practice gives great satisfaction to both doctor and patient.



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Dr. David Marcon
Cincinnati, Ohio
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