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portada Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects
Type
Physical Book
Author
Publisher
Year
2010
Language
English
Pages
200
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
15 x 23 cm
ISBN13
9781849027700
Edition No.
1

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects

Weston A. Price (Author) · Benediction Classics · Paperback

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects - Weston A. Price

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Synopsis "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets and Their Effects "

"Dr Price might well be called The Charles Darwin of Nutrition." - The Laryngoscope , 1950.

Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, a compendium of ancestral wisdom, is a ground-breaking work in nutrition. Price liberally included illustrations and wrote in non-technical language to make the book as accessible as possible.

Weston Price, a dentist with an interest in nutrition and health, travelled the globe, and observed the dietary habits of several diverse cultures, including the isolated Lötscher in Switzerland, Native Americans, Polynesians, Pygmies, and Australian Aboriginals. He observed that various diseases endemic to Western industrial societies of the 1920s and 1930s were rarely present in the indigenous populations he visited, but that as these groups abandoned their ancestral diet and adopted Western diets, they showed increases in typical Western diseases. He concluded that the modern Western diet, and, in particular, sugar, flour, and processed vegetable oils are responsible for these diseases and that Western methods of commercially preparing and storing foods stripped away vitamins and minerals necessary to prevent disease.

Initially, the medical and scientific communities vigorously rejected this controversial work as lacking scientific precision; nevertheless, research has confirmed his conclusions and modern medical orthodoxy is slowly accepting that lifestyle and diet are a major factor, perhaps the major factor, in the degenerative diseases that have beset the developed world. A plethora of health-promoting diets have sprung from his observations including Paleo, keto, primal blueprint and the ancestral diet movement. Many have credited this book with greatly improving their health.

This edition

Is Weston Prices original edition.
Contains 134 original images and additional maps.
Is set in an easy to read 11-point font.
Weston A. Price
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Weston A. Price (1870-1948) fue un dentista e investigador canadiense-estadounidense, reconocido por su trabajo pionero en el vínculo entre la nutrición y la salud. A lo largo de su carrera observó cómo las dietas tradicionales, ricas en alimentos naturales y sin procesar, se asociaban con una mejor salud dental y física en diversas comunidades alrededor del mundo. Estas conclusiones las plasmó en su obra más influyente, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration (1939), donde documentó con fotografías y estudios de campo los efectos del cambio hacia dietas modernas industrializadas.

Su enfoque, aunque controvertido en su tiempo, abrió el camino a debates actuales sobre la alimentación, la medicina preventiva y la relación entre dieta y bienestar. Price es recordado como un investigador que desafió las concepciones médicas de su época, subrayando la importancia de los nutrientes presentes en los alimentos integrales. Su legado sigue vivo en movimientos que promueven la alimentación tradicional y natural.
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