Nutrition and Physical Degeneration

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It’s a pity I didn’t manage to read much of the book, since it proved really interesting, and contains, as can be seen from the above, not only material about how to improve one’s teeth through good diet but also much about the improvement of general health and healing of diseases. So shocking to see such strong evidence that all orthodontic needs are NOT genetic but actually evidences of nutritional deficiencies IN UTERO. The primary reason for this was new technology, steam-powered steel roller mills, which appeared around 1890.

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. Many factory workers started their day with a slice of white bread spread with sugar-packed jam, marmalade, or treacle — many calories, few nutrients. In numerous locations, 20 years after the arrival of white flour and white sugar, primitive people started to suffer from heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, gallbladder disease, and colitis. 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.

It is worth noting that some of the well-nourished indigenous populations had a history of war, murder and hostage taking. The quality of this particular edition is exactly what is needed for something you will want to refer to for a lifetime and pass on to your children. This review is transcribed from my full video review which you can find on YouTube here: https://youtu.

It indeed reflects some interesting facts but at a certain point the text does not add anything at all - just looking at the different example pictures would suffice to most readers. He found when these people were introduced to modernized foods, such as white flour, white sugar, refined vegetable oils and canned goods, signs of degeneration quickly became quite evident. First published in 1939, this seminal book startled the worlds of science and nutrition with its documented evidence of primitive populations encountering civilisation, adopting modern diets, and finding that their health worsened. Fascinating how much effort he has to go to prove what is really common sense and yet people still don't know this stuff. NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL DEGENERATION is the basic foundation for the Traditional Foods Movement and also the Paleo Movement.Within one generation of eating "modern foods" - dental health markedly deteriorated, as did general health. Still, this book is so immensely important and influential to many, because we live in an age where there are virtually no people left on the planet that are eating completely traditional diets. The most chilling realization of all is the very real possibility that pre-natal "germ plasm disruptions," coming from parents who lack the proper means of health through nutrition to create ideal offspring, may be taking place in epidemic numbers. I found it especially interesting to learn about fat soluble vitamins, which need activators to be utilized by the body. It turns out to be a critical part of so many body processes that physiology texts will have to be rewritten in major ways.

Modern diets have tended to focus exclusively on the former, which means that the vegans are right, in a way - meat does present serious risks when it comes from the feedlot system, but a diet that contains no animal products whatsoever not only cannot deliver vitamins and minerals efficiently, but has been rejected by the primitive cultures of the world, who have not suffered tooth decay, degenerative disease, or mental retardation in the process. Eventually, with any luck and perseverance, the truth will prevail, and the one vestige out of Pandora's Box - hope - can morph into a tangible reality. White flour was little more than highly refined carbs, which rapidly enter the bloodstream — empty calories. Partly because it wasn't carefully packaged but also because a paperback isn't constructed for heavy use. Today, when we must all become advocates for our own health, arming yourself with the best information is vital.Throughout the book there’s photos of different people who he’s met where they’re showing their jaws and their teeth formation and then he’s pointing out how their diet has affected their whole facial form and the arch of their teeth and obviously tooth decay. 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. What’s really interesting about that is that there is a recurring theme through the different people that he visits, it’s this lack of a need of doctors, dentists, police and jails. Even in natives where the tooth was worn down to the gum line, the body was protected from bacterial infection by new layer of dentine where the pulp was exposed. In the various archipelagos of the South Pacific and in the islands North of Australia the natives depended greatly on shellfish and various scaled fish from adjacent seas, these were eaten with an assortment of plants, roots and fruit, raw and cooked.