The following is my review of a 511 page book I had recently finished
reading over a period of 2 months. Due to insufficient space in such a
review, I will give a generalized overview of the book's content.
If
one would perceive physical "aging" as simply a condition of physical
"degeneration", one would take measurements to investigate what brought
about the loss of cellular integrity.
What degenerates you?
Do you have tantrums?
Do you have a foggy mind?
Do you ever have criminal urges?
Is it difficult for you to remember things?
What did you eat this morning?
Have you suffered in the past from tooth decay?
Are you still suffering from tooth decay?
According
to a 511 page book I just finished reading, called "Nutrition and
Physical Degeneration", my body, and the body of many other people I
know, is physically unfit for primitive lifestyles under the
"modernized" foods of commerce.
Fortunately, I have left
the White Man's foods and have found excellent stamina and physical
regeneration. I hardly brush my teeth anymore because I have identified
several years ago the reasons for bone density loss (osteoporosis) and
immunity susceptibility to states of disease, and this book confirmed for
me much of what I had experienced.
The author, Dr. Weston
A. Price, a dentist, was concerned for the increasing incidence of
tooth decay and dental arch deformities in the United States. His
concern took him to investigate, observe, document and analyze,
different cultures around the world. For that task, he needed a control
group - a group within that culture that has a very high immunity to
tooth decay and has no record of physical degeneration within their
racial stock.
Dr. Price spent the 1930s traveling to 14
different cultures on 5 different continents. Where he had examined the
teeth of thousands of primitive tribal men, women and children, who
subsisted on their primitive diets (fresh, local and seasonal food, each
culture having a unique diet that the climate and land conditions
allowed). Then Dr. Price visited and documented extensively the physical
degeneration of many primitive groups who had begun the process of
modernization, as well as groups who had been converted entirely to
subsisting on modern food. In many cases, these modernized men and women
gave birth to children who had shown marked physical deformities in
facial development, teeth, and body shape.
The aspect of
diet, what to eat or what not to eat, was largely discussed in this
book. However, instead of focusing on the nature of the modernized
foods, it was clearly demonstrated what factors within the primitive
groups had greatly maintained their excellent physiques, even to very
late ages.
Repeatedly it is demonstrated, via photographs
of smiling teeth and x-ray shots, that excellence of the primitive
racial stocks compared to the modernized groups. The Swiss in the Alps,
the Gaelics in the Hebrides, The Aborigines in Australia, the Masai
warrior tribe in Africa, the Eskimos in Canada, the Indians in Peru, are
a handful of the cultures that had been investigated. In each case, as
if we can finally recognize nature's pattern, we see that the primitive
groups had nearly 100% immunity to all physical degenerations, and a
very low incidence of tooth decay.
On the other hand,
wherever the road, railway or ports allowed access of imported goods
from the modernized world, we see that the people exchanging their
nutritionally wealthy foods for the white man's white bread, sugar,
jams, canned foods etc., suffer greatly from the impact of the mineral
and vitamin deficient food. The White Man developed a mentality of
providing only energy and heat generating food for its masses, while the
primitive races had maintained a close relationship with the
body-building and body-repairing minerals and vitamins.
Civilizations
tend to fall as a consequence of physical degeneration. However, it is
the soil that gives out first, as farm land becomes exhausted from
mineral depletion. But why would that happen? It can only happen in a
system that supports exporting the minerals from the land out of the
land. Only a system, which the primitives were aware of, that is able to
return the minerals back to the land, would be able to nourish the
plants. All animals, including man, inherits the pattern and composition
of minerals that was available for the plant. If the land has
degenerated, man will too. Such has been observed in large populations
prior to World War 2, and such can be observed by photographs documented
by Dr. Price of entire herds of cows that degenerated due to
deficiencies.
Due to a growing concern of increased
sterility in modernized populations, largely because of the deformity in
both sperm and egg, and increased incidence of birth defects and loss
of child at birth, the urge to investigate the reasons for this
phenomenon had propelled many scientists to determine the factors
involved in the deformity in nature's design. The book elucidates many
of the factors that had inflicted primitive groups undergoing the
process of modernization. The consequences are not limited to physical
degeneration alone, but also include impaired brain development, which
has been associated with the rising incidence in criminal behaviors as
well as learning disabilities.
Could food, and the state of the soil it had come from, have an impact on physical development and performance?
Has this crucial knowledge and wisdom presented in the book's message propel society to incorporate nutritional guidelines?
How important is it for the parents to plan ahead the bearing of a child into the world?
And
how did primitive groups succeed in developing a next generation that
carried perfect physical, mental, behavioral and spiritual capacities?
There
are many questions answered within the book, which I am glad that I
carry with me the wisdom of primitive racial groups. We have much to
thank Dr. Price for his contribution to humanity. It is unfortunate that
many people misinterpret his main messages, let alone ignore the stark
evidence of physical degeneration due to poor quality of food.
Are you hungry for change?
Joel D. Jacobson
Teacher at Evolved Ministry
Online Self Mastery University
Study at the pace of your evolution.
