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Nutrition and Physical Degeneration [Paperback]

Weston A. Price , Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation
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January 31, 2008 0916764206 978-0916764203 8th
New Expanded 8th edition with new photos and text.

An epic study demonstrating the importance of whole food nutrition, and the degeneration and destruction that comes from a diet of processed foods.


For nearly 10 years, Weston Price and his wife traveled around the world in search of the secret to health. Instead of looking at people afflicted with disease symptoms, this highly-respected dentist and dental researcher chose to focus on healthy individuals, and challenged himself to understand how they achieved such amazing health. Dr. Price traveled to hundreds of cities in a total of 14 different countries in his search to find healthy people. He investigated some of the most remote areas in the world. He observed perfect dental arches, minimal tooth decay, high immunity to tuberculosis and overall excellent health in those groups of people who ate their indigenous foods. 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. Dental caries, deformed jaw structures, crooked teeth, arthritis and a low immunity to tuberculosis became rampant amongst them. Dr. Price documented this ancestral wisdom including hundreds of photos in his book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.

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About the Author

Dr. Price was a Cleveland dentist, who has been called the Charles Darwin of Nutrition. Searching for the causes of dental decay and physical degeneration he observed daily in his dental practice, he turned from test tubes and microscopes to study people with fine teeth the isolated primitives.

Product Details

  • Paperback: 527 pages
  • Publisher: Price Pottenger Nutrition; 8th edition (January 31, 2008)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0916764206
  • ISBN-13: 978-0916764203
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (69 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,435 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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131 of 133 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The Most Important Book I've Ever Read August 25, 2008
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Modern nutrition research is a mess. As a scientist who's interested in health research, I find the field to be amazingly full of bias and unscientific thinking. It's driven more by popular consensus than logic.

"Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" slices through modern nutrition BS with devastatingly simple logic: Price found the healthiest cultures in the world, and recorded what they were doing. It's as simple as that.

For those who are concerned with the credibility of the book, I'll mention that it's very consistent with what anthropologists and field physicians were saying at the time. Price also published some of his findings in respected peer-reviewed journals like JAMA and JADA during his lifetime. His genius was in consolidating information from many different cultures and examining what they had in common. Modern Western food habits have left a trail of destruction throughout the world, and it was painfully obvious to anyone observing a transition from traditional foods to industrially processed Western foods.

Price and other groups of researchers have shown that modern degenerative disease is caused by a modern diet, yet mainstream nutrition research continues to fumble around in the dark. These days, researchers conduct studies that compare the sick to the sicker and confuse correlation with causation. This information then gets conveyed to us by a media that is completely unscientific and more concerned with creating a big story than conveying sound information. Leave them all in the dust and learn how to be truly healthy by reading the most important and most overlooked piece of health research ever published.
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97 of 102 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars How to create a healthy human being with nutrition June 23, 2008
Format:Paperback
Would it be crass say this book is the answer to new couples wanting to conceive and raise children who will grow up to have straight teeth, model beautiful cheekbones and manly square jaws? ;)

I fear that is the only way we can get past our current culture obsessed with lowfat oversugared fake food.

This book changed my life and the life of my son. In a time where vegetables-lowfat-tofu eating dietary principles are held up as the answer to health we are eating beef liver and cod liver oil, pastured meat and eggs, wild seafoods and raw grassfed milk, butter and cream, bone broths, soaked grains and nuts and fermented vegetables to try to achieve the 10x the RDA of fat soluble vitamins and 5x the RDA of minerals and water soluble vitamins that protected people around the globe from disease and enabled them to achieve their full genetic potential (ie. the wide palates, model cheekbones and manly square jaws!)

I already know the 3 years following the principles in this book and the WAP Foundation has helped my son as his palate his widened and tooth spacing increased from age 2 to age 5. I'm excited to see if his secondary teeth will come in straight and avoid braces like I had!

Price was a DDS who was the head of research for the ADA of his day... someone very learned with the scientific method. His ten years of travelling the globe has given us most vital information on a natural human diet and how this relates to health and the growth of a child most especially.

I constantly look around me everyday and see the result of modern processed food: the weak chins, narrow palates, crowded teeth, narrow nostrils, "deviated septums" and underdeveloped faces. This is NOT a results of genetics, is is a result of your diet!! That is mind blowing!! As a relatively new mother, that is life changing to know that I can effect how my child will look by what I feed him.

I especially see the results of physical degeneration in the faces and teeth of my son's generation. Interestingly enough, I rarely see it in my parent's generation! (Both my parents were raised on cod liver oil btw.) This alone has been fascinating to consider and it spurred me on to learn more about how proper nutrition effects our bone structure and our health.

With respect to myself, this book inspired me to get tested for vitamin D deficiency, and supplement with cod liver oil. Learning how much vit. D can effect your immune system and breast cancer risk is only secondary to how good I feel... much less fatigued, happier and more resilient on this diet. I used to be a healthy vegetarian eater, but a traditional diet based on WAPF principles is hands down much better for me.

Viva Healthy Animal Fat!
(grass fed or wild)
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33 of 33 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Essential Reading for the Nutritionist October 9, 2009
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This book may have saved my life. It surely gave me the impetus to switch from a nutrient deficient, anti-nutrient replete vegan diet to a healthy diet rich in animal products such as grass-fed beef, wild caught fish, patured chicken, high vitamin butter oil, cod liver oil, butter and milk in addition to a moderate amount of fruits and copius amounts of green vegetables.

Price examines primitive cultures to see what they eat and what are the results. The healthiest cultures ate no modern "foods of commerce", but ate primarily meat, some dairy, some tubers, and even blood. People that had begun to eat modern food were riddled with cavitations and crowded teeth. Price actually set out to prove that a vegetarian diet was the best, and he was sorely disappointed to find out how necessary animal products were. Once he made this discovery he immediately informed his family and the public of his findings instead of trying to peddle vegan propaganda like some authors do.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars Now I know why I have crooked teeth!
I wish my mom had read this. The margarine and skim milk from powder she fed herself and me in the 60's and 70's were likely to blame. Excellent wisdom in this book. Read more
Published 2 days ago by Karen Saville
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
Fascinating read. It definitely makes you look at people's faces and teeth in a different way.
Highly recommended for people interested in nutrition
Published 4 days ago by Bryan Lee
5.0 out of 5 stars Nutritiona dn Physical Degeneration
The quality of the book was great, no pages missing or even dog eared. I didn't know what to expect as this has been a difficult book to get in the past, especially at an... Read more
Published 22 days ago by Deloris D. Del Rio
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing Book
Anyone looking for a solid foundation upon which to build up their nutritional knowledge has no need to look any further. Read more
Published 23 days ago by B. Harrelson
5.0 out of 5 stars Very important research work
Dentist travels to 5 continents visiting over 100 communities between 1920 and 1930, comparing health among people with ancestors eating habits and the same people adopting the... Read more
Published 1 month ago by Nelson M. Silva Lima
5.0 out of 5 stars Life Changing
Being the only one of its kind anywhere in the world, and so full of information that is essential and invaluable to real health, it is really hard to believe that this book isn't... Read more
Published 1 month ago by J. wilborn
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best books I've ever read!
This is one of the best books I've ever read! Life changing to say the least. I ate very very poorly as a child, and after reading this book I realize that's why my mouth is so... Read more
Published 2 months ago by DANIEL
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent resource
Great book - love all of the pictures Dr. Price used for his studies! They really make his research come alive. Read more
Published 2 months ago by joni_kraft11
5.0 out of 5 stars Incredible Book
Very insightful. It has changed my life! I am studying a course at Hawthorn University that required this book. I am so glad I read it!
Published 2 months ago by Elizabeth Bourget
5.0 out of 5 stars The best book ever!
This should be a mandatory read for all dentists, doctors and nurses-to-be school - it's so simple yet we still eat the same way today and it's sad that this information was... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mom2Scott
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