Healthy "primitive" people and their diets: The Adventures of Doctor Weston A. Price

Weston A. Price was a dentist who travelled the world in the 1930s. He knew that primitive people were known for having excellent teeth. He believed this condition of the teeth to reflect overall good health. He wanted to study these people directly and find out about their teeth and health, and what it was about their diet that helped them achieve such physical excellence. Everywhere he went, he found primitive groups and tribes on their natural, traditional diet, to have excellent teeth and excellent overall health. He compared these to the same race groups who had adopted a modern diet of refined foods, and had all the bad health problems of modernised people. There was a huge difference!
He published a book called "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration". It included his studies and findings of the teeth and health of these people, and also all he found out about their diets and nutrition. It is an excellent book that I would highly recommend.
In general, the pattern he found was that these traditional people with excellent health had a natural diet, free of modern refined and unnatural foods. Their diets were much higher in nutrients than the modern diet of his time (which is no doubt even worse today).

This is the groundbreaking, classic work of Dr Weston A. Price. He was a pioneer of his time who found new and important things about traditional "primitive" diets and how they ensure excellent health. He compared these to what is wrong with our modern diet and how it causes so many of our health problems. This shows us how we can learn from primitive nutritional wisdom to develop great health for ourselves! This book is the only one of its kind. It's the basic starting point that all study of nutrition should include or even begin with. If you are interested in purchasing this book, check out the Amazon link below!

The exact things that Weston Price and others have found out about traditional diets will be the topic of many posts I will write in the future. Stay tuned...

Why Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science?

Traditional, primitive and non-modernised diets were developed and proved over thousands of years. People living in harmony with nature practised trial and error and over time learnt more and more. They learnt what could or could not be eaten, as well as how to prepare foods to avoid harmful substances and gain maximum nutrition. Furthermore, they had an absence of modern artificial, man-made and refined foods, which cause great harm to us. This ancient wisdom and absence of modern dangers are what made up traditional diets. These diets have been proven to ensure excellent health.

Modern science has the potential to reveal to us the exact workings of food and nutrition. While primitive peoples developed and practised healthy diets naturally, modern science can tell us why these diets worked. It can tell us the exact factors and requirements of diets for optimal health. It can help us understand how to apply good nutrition, which non-modernised people had naturally, in our modern world. Furthermore, it offers us the chance to learn as much as we can about our nutritional requirements, and develop the absolute best diet possible.

What we are not basing this nutrition on is politics. Unfortunately, much of the conventional information we get fed about nutrition at the moment is untrue or misleading. It gained its influence by being promoted by groups whose interest is their own money-making, not our health (there will be more on this later). If you take a true, honest look at both ancient wisdom and modern science, it proves some truths about nutrition that are quite different to what we're usually told.

Introduction

This blog is about true nutrition. This is based on the accumulated wisdom of traditional, primitive and non-modernised peoples, mixed with the findings of unbiased modern science. There is so much we can learn about nutrition and health from both ancient wisdom and modern science. This blog will present often forgotten ancient wisdom, modern findings of science and sometimes some fresh original perspectives. Sometimes there will be recipes. There will be profiles of certain foods and their health benefits. There will be advice on how to use nutrition to help with certain health problems. I can promise you there will almost certainly be information you have not heard about, or stuff you will not likely find anywhere else. All of this is with the aim of helping you find how to best implement the most nutritious healthy diet into your life. Enjoy!