Even in natives where the tooth was worn down to the gum line, the body was protected from bacterial infection by new layer of dentine where the pulp was exposed.

As an example, the nutrition for children living in a poor district in Cleveland, OH was improved for one meal per day. It is pretty depressing really that here we are nearly a hundred years later and where have things gone, what direction have they gone in?It deals with the cultural, technological, global, and (latently) political ramifications of manufactured food.

An example of a mental deformity in infants that is related to nutrition is the increased risk of downs syndrome for children born to parents over forty years of age. There's certainly plenty of "heavy lifting" required with the reading of this book, but it is definitely worth the journey. There is a real sense of horror, chapter after chapter, of seeing the after-effects of modern foods on various peoples.So for the Eskimos of Alaska their native diet is liberal use of organs and other special tissues of large animal life of the sea as well as fish, and all the things they do to them to preserve them for the Winter. Science moves very slowly, and it could easily be several hundred or 1000 years before we get it all sorted out.

Nevertheless, this book is fantastic in 3 ways: [1] It shows us what science used to think was correct; [2] excellent descriptions of "primitive" diets (the delight of most readers of this book); [3] Can also be read as an anecdote-filled nutritional travelogue. The native tribes of Eastern and Central Africa used large quantities of sweet potato, beans and some cereals, when they were living sufficiently near fresh water streams and lakes large quantities of fish were eaten, goats or cattle, or both, were domesticated by many tribes, other tribes used wild animal life quite liberally. In contrast the white people or the modernized people of the same tribes had rampant tooth decay, different facial abnormalities.The experts cannot seem to make up their minds on which individual foods are good for you and which are bad. This is a classic study and commentary on the relationship between traditional nature-based diet and health. He was watching a serious health crisis emerge right before his eyes, and he didn’t understand the cause. 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. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, a compendium of ancestral wisdom, is a ground-breaking work in nutrition.

Partly because it wasn't carefully packaged but also because a paperback isn't constructed for heavy use. For the first 200 pages, the chapters proceed, region by region, comparing the health of the people, based on their diet.I loaned my copy of this book to a dentist friend who became President if the Oregon Dental Association. These travels, studies and observations are carefully documented in his book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, published in 1939. He wrote of these peoples with respect, giving credit to their traditional nutritional knowledge and practices. Chris and Gill will be delving into the fat soluble vitamins and their essential role within optimising gene expression throughout the body.