Nutrition and Physical Degeneration

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In contrast the white people or the modernized people of the same tribes had rampant tooth decay, different facial abnormalities.

Although not a fast-paced or exciting read, it contains wisdom that is crucial to the health and survival of the human race. The main reason that the primitive people can keep their teeth in such a splendid form is the food they are eating is rich in all sorts of vitamins and minerals. White flour had a much longer shelf life than whole wheat, because it had no oil which would go rancid over time. About four ounces of tomato juice or orange juice and a teaspoonful of a mixture of equal parts of a very high vitamin natural cod liver oil (Vitamin A) and an especially high vitamin butter was given at the beginning of the meal. I reached this bottom line: While we understand proteins, carbs, and fats reasonably well, and have a pretty good handle on most vitamins and about a dozen minerals, there is simply an immense amount we just don't know.In those places where populations consumed foods native to their regions, he found perfect dental arches, low incidence of tooth decay, high immunity to tuberculosis and overall excellent health. He found that their traditional diet, widely different in content depending on the area, equaled good health, including healthy teeth.

iron)” p 275 “Extensive laboratory determinations have shown that most people cannot absorb more than half of the calcium and phosphorus from the foods eaten. These travels, studies and observations are carefully documented in his book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, published in 1939. He wanted to find people who weren't touched by the modern world and find out how healthy they were.Children born under the primitive diets were healthier, stronger, and had resistance to cavities, while children born under the modern diets had stunted bone development, high disease (tuberculosis was particularly common) susceptibility, and low cavity resistance.

He was an American dentist, and he travelled around the world with his wife, looking at people’s teeth and recording what he found. He was watching a serious health crisis emerge right before his eyes, and he didn’t understand the cause. He wrote of these peoples with respect, giving credit to their traditional nutritional knowledge and practices.When we talked some years later, he brought up remineralization of teeth to me (he'd forgotten I lent him the book, which he still has). When these defensive factors are not present the acid producing organisms multiply and produce an acid which dissolves tooth structure. Imagine that you are a dentist treating tooth decay (dental caries) and you decide to investigate the root causes, and discover that primitive and isolated tribes do not have tooth decay. He concluded that the modern Western diet, and, in particular, sugar, flour, and processed vegetable oils are responsible for these diseases and that Western methods of commercially preparing and storing foods stripped away vitamins and minerals necessary to prevent disease.