Nutrition and Physical Degeneration

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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. I believe that the feelings are probably the primary cause, but everything is interconnected, and good nutrition is obviously absolutely important. Fascinating how much effort he has to go to prove what is really common sense and yet people still don't know this stuff. In some, mostly cooked foods were eaten while in others many foods, including animal foods were eaten raw. 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.

I feel that we are missing so much wisdom which is right there, and maybe we should question a little bit more about what we’re missing that wisdom for. 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. Modern science is quite obviously incapable of giving us complete answers to our nutritional questions.By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. If you are interested in learning more about the connection between diet and health - this is a classic.

The coverage of special, pre-marriage and pre-childbearing diets (for both mothers and fathers) and child spacing were fascinating as well. One can get a head start, armed with this knowledge, through several important books: number one, and the most crucial, Sally Fallon's "Nourishing Traditions," Mary G. 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.Children born under the primitive diets were healthier, stronger, and had resistance to cavities, while children born under the modern diets had stunted bone development, high disease (tuberculosis was particularly common) susceptibility, and low cavity resistance. Only the vitamins and minerals present in non-synthetic primitive diets can ward off such modern ills as heart disease, dental crowding, and infant deformities. He concluded that lack of proper nutrition is the root cause of all physical degeneration, including degeneration of the teeth and gums.

The diets of the native americans of Canada, the native Swiss, Gaelics in the Outer Hebrides, the Aborigines of Australia and the native New Zealand Maori was similar. He was watching a serious health crisis emerge right before his eyes, and he didn’t understand the cause. Within one generation of eating "modern foods" - dental health markedly deteriorated, as did general health. Not only did he find that they had much lower levels of tooth decay, they actually had a much lower level of general illness, and were usually fitter, healthier, happier people.So if you eat a highly processed diet, particularly things with refined white sugars, and of course nowadays we have things like corn syrup and the seed oils etc. One of our modern tendencies is to select the foods we like, particularly those that satisfy our hunger without our having to eat much, and, another is to think in terms of the few known vitamins and their effects. Chris and Gill will be delving into the fat soluble vitamins and their essential role within optimising gene expression throughout the body.