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Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects
By Weston Price
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects
By Weston Price
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"Dr Price might well be called 'The Charles Darwin of Nutrition'." - The Laryngoscope , 1950.
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, a compendium of ancestral wisdom, is a ground-breaking work in nutrition. Price liberally included illustrations and wrote in non-technical language to make the book as accessible as possible.
Weston Price, a dentist with an interest in nutrition and health, travelled the globe, and observed the dietary habits of several diverse tures, including the isolated Lötscher in Switzerland, Native Americans, Polynesians, Pygmies, and Australian Aboriginals. He observed that various diseases endemic to Western industrial societies of the 1920s and 1930s were rarely present in the indigenous populations he ited, but that as these groups abandoned their ancestral diet and adopted Western diets, they showed increases in typical Western diseases. He concluded that the modern Western diet, and, in partiar, sugar, flour, and processed vegetable oils are for these diseases and that Western methods of commercially preparing and storing foods stripped away vitamins and minerals necessary to prevent disease.
Initially, the medical and scientific communities vigorously rejected this controversial work as lacking scientific precision; nevertheless, research has confirmed his conclusions and modern medical orthodoxy is slowly accepting that lifestyle and diet are a major factor, perhaps the major factor, in the degenerative diseases that have beset the developed world. A plethora of health-promoting diets have sprung from his observations including Paleo, keto, primal blueprint and the ancestral diet movement. Many have credited this book with greatly improving their health.
This edition Is Weston Price's original edition. Contains 134 original images and additional maps. Is set in an easy to read 11-point font.
Weston A. Price (1870 -1948) was a Canadian-born dentist.
Product details
- Number of Pages:
- 418
- Release Date:
- 2010-05-15
- Publication Date:
- 2010-05-15
- Publisher:
- Benediction Classics
- Languages:
- Published: English, Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 1849027536
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
- [email protected]
- Weight:
- 770 g
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Very good
Almost no signs of wear. Book pages have no markings, accessories are intact and all other media are in good condition.
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