Title: Nutrition and physical degeneration /
Authors: Price, Weston A.; Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation.
Date: 2008
Publisher: Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation,
Physical description: xxxvii, 527 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: R
Abstract: "An epic study demonstrating the importance of whole food nutrition, and the degeneration and destruction that comes from a diet of processed foods."--Back cover.
Contents: Why seek wisdom from primitive peoples -- The progressive decline of modern civilization -- Isolated and modernized Swiss -- Isolated and modernized Gaelics -- Isolated and modernized Eskimos -- Primitive and modernized North American Indians -- Isolated and modernized Melanesians -- Isolated and modernized Polynesians -- Isolated and modernized African tribes -- Isolated and modernized Australian Aborigines -- Isolated and modernized Torres Strait islanders -- Isolated and modernized New Zealand Maori -- Ancient civilizations of Peru -- Isolated and modernized Peruvian Indians -- Characteristics of primitive and modernized dietaries -- Primitive control of dental caries -- One origin of physical deformities -- Prenatal nutritional deformities and disease types -- Physical, mental and moral deterioration -- Soil depletion and plant and animal deterioration -- Practical application of primitive wisdom -- A new vitamin-like activator -- Food is fabricated soil fertility (William A. Albrecht) -- Fluorine in plant and animal growth -- How Mother Nature made us -- Steps in our modern degeneration -- Nutritional programs for race regeneration -- Social reforms by education -- Additional photographs from Dr. Weston A. Price's teachings -- Acid-base balance of diets -- Personal correspondence to and from Weston A. Price.
Notes: Originally published in 1939.
Subject headings (LCSH): Civilization.; Nutrition and dental health.; Nutritional anthropology.; Nutritionally induced diseases.