Western Price

Another forgotten man

A man who told us a lot about our eating habits
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Stories and information our food producers would rather remained forgotten
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Weston Price, was an American dentist who lived in the early twentieth century.
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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.”
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He was curious about the decline of dental health he had seen over the decades of his practice, and hypothesized that the rapid increase in the prevalence of tooth decay, crowded dentition, and a host of other, formerly rare, non-dental maladies had something to do with our diets. 
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He quit his practice and spent many years traveling to remote corners of the world where people still lived without modern foods. 
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The societies he visited weren't all Stone Age, but they were primitive by our standards. 
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He went to remote Swiss villages accessible only by mule, and to the outer islands of Scotland; he lived with the Masai in Africa, the Inuit in Alaska, the aborigines in Australia, Polynesians in the Pacific. 
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In all these places he found almost no tooth decay
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No obesity, 
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No heart disease, and 
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No cancer. 
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Instead he observed magnificent physical stamina, easy childbirth, and broad jaws with all 32 teeth. 
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The diets were different everywhere but there were some things in common. 
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People ate very few refined carbohydrates, plenty of live fermented food, and substantial quantities of fats and organ meats. 
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Their vitamin intake was many times greater than the norm today. 
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Dr Price's work lends support to the contention that at least in some respects, primitive people enjoyed better health than is the norm today
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Even without the modern medicine that we think keeps us healthy.
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There are so many forgotten men and women who had insights
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Who devoted their lives to understanding and finding the truth of things
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So often sneered at and derided by their peers
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Their insights ignored, belittled and misunderstood
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Then many years later some scientist discovers their truth or insight
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Claims it as his own
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Just as happened to Dr Weston Price in fact