Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects by Price, Weston Andrew. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780879835026.

Circling the world in the 1920s and 30s, Dr. Price and his wife found the same sinister pattern among "primitive" populations, whether isolated Irish fishermen, tribal Africans, Pacific Islanders, Eskimos, North and South American Indians or Australian Aborigines. Those groups that followed their traditional nature-based diets enjoyed good health and vigor, and those that turned to the "civilized" diet of processed, sugar-laden foods soon developed a variety of ills, including misshapen bones and teeth - and the situation worsened with each generation. Dr. Prices fascinating accounts of his discoveries, and the extensive photo documentation he provides, drive home the nutritional truths that are only now gaining general understanding, and Nutrition and Physical Degeneration remains an unequaled source of basic information.