Dr. Weston A. Price

In the late 30s and early 40s, a dentist in Cleveland, Ohio named Weston A. Price circled the globe and studied the diets of some of the primitive peoples of the world. He traveled to Ireland, the Loetschental Valley in Switzerland, Africa, Alaska, Melanesia and Polynesia, Australia, New Zealand and other places. He discovered that people whose diet  had not changed for centuries had few dental or other medical problems. But when these same people came into contact with the "displacing foods of modern commerce" (as he termed it) rampant tooth decay and progressive facial deformities followed.     Children who were born to parents who adopted our  so-called civilized diet had crooked and crowded teeth, narrow faces with deformities of the bone structure, as well as a lowered resistance to disease.      Dr. Price wrote his findings down in a book called Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. This is a 524 page book which I heartily recommend. It contains over 100 photographs of people in states of perfect health and physique and those who follow the modern diet. This book will really open your eyes. I cannot look at anyone now without thinking of Dr. Price's work.

The photo above with the two boys are brothers. The one on the right eats the traditional foods and has excellent teeth. The one on the left eats modern food and has rampant tooth decay. On the bottom, a typical modernized gaelic and, on the right, the excellent teeth of a primitive gaelic.	In the top photo, typical rugged gaelic children. Below, modernized gaelics. Note the narrowed faces and nostrils.
Above, American indians living on native foods. Note the broad faces.	Dental arch deformities and crowded teeth of modernized Eskimos.
Note the strength of the neck in the men above from Melanesia and the well proportioned faces of the girls below. Tooth decay is rare as long as they use an adequate selection of native foods.	A modernized group of Melanesians. The generation of children born after the parents adopt modern foods often have a change in the shape of the face and dental arches.

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