num_pages: 524
description: 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. It remains the basic book in this area and is essential reading for those concerned with food and health.
language: English
title: Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
titlecomplete: Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
genres: Medical, History, Cooking, Diets, Biology, Science, Health, Nutrition, Food, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 2105
publisher: Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation