I've been wanting to do a post on this one, and I want to be clear that this is about the book only and not the whole Weston Price Foundation or their specific agenda.
For the carnivore specifically this book has great value, even though Weston Price does not exclusively study carnivores. The value of the book is that is documents unambiguously - with photos - the real human physiological difference between the refined grains and sugar diets and the various "traditional diets" including carnivorism.
If you've ever had the slightest doubt about sufficient calcium on this diet, the pictures he has of Inuit bones compared to western bones will amaze you. Their skulls are so thick that they make ours look like egg shells. And there was nowhere where he found less tooth decay that with pure carnivores.
The comparitive physical degeneration of those who have left those traditional diets for the refined grains and sugar diets are shocking and even sickening. Your view of sugar will change permanently. There is nothing sweet about it. This book documents what this poison does to us back before the widespread use of floride and advanced dental and cosmetic surgery and other technology began to hide the truth from us.
The malformed faces, distorted by the malnutrition of refined carbs are faces that you will recognize from everyone around you. This book is, in its way, as profound as GCBC - and I would consider it an important addition to the carnivore's bookshelf.
Where do you get this book, Carlos? I've always wanted a copy of Dr. Price's book. I have excerpts and it seems pretty good.
(12-16-2008 04:22 PM)Charles Wrote: [ -> ]Where do you get this book, Carlos? I've always wanted a copy of Dr. Price's book. I have excerpts and it seems pretty good.
Hi Charles,
I ordered it at Amazon.com (free shipping
). You can also get it direct from the Weston Price Foundation, and from other online booksellers.
Oh, that's maddening. I just ordered the book and it's available online for free. I could have printed it!!!!
If it is any consolation the new edition in print is expanded, with more of the photos Price took on his travels, and so may have some material not included in this online version. I'll try bring in my copy to work tomorrow and compare.
Charles once again, simply amazing. I never would have believed you didn't study the BEAR before starting the most informative forum known to man, an now you stated you have never read the health Bible, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. This one really got the ball rolling for me years ago. Forgot about it and the Bear's forum got me back on track. You will have trouble putting this one down and once your kids see the pictures, whatever temptation they may have toward junk will fade quickly. If my two youngsters indulge at school at various stupid celebrations, I show them the pictures in this book and things get back on track immediately. FYI, the latest edition has even more pictures that say it all.....
Thanks for the kind words, Sean. I never occurred to me to search for the book for some reason. I constantly use the article: "Out of Africa" from the Weston Price site because he talks about Burkitt and Trowell and their fiber crusade. He also made observations about meat eaters, calling them "more robust, taller and stronger" than their vegetable-eating neighbors. He mentions the book, but I never dreamed I could actually buy it and read it. I'm learning....
Those are powerful images.
The pictures are so powerful that the only alternative is to completely ignore them outright, to completely ignore the implications: We are eating poison and because of this we are all sick, stupid and deformed. But perhaps the most common implication is that since we eat the fruit of agriculture and since plants are only eaten when we starve, then we must all be starving, then we must all be very poor indeed. We just can't accept the idea that we're all so poor. We can't accept this because being poor is seen as a moral defect.
What I think is the most difficult idea to accept especially for a woman who has children is that she is ultimately responsible for the diseases, stupidity and deformity of her child since she's the one that fed him all that candy and bread. I got into a heated argument with women about this a while back. My contention was that overbite, crooked teeth and facial deformities were caused by diet and not some genetic defect or even some activity i.e. thumb sucking. Obviously, this implied that the women were responsible so I got quite a bit of flak for the implication. Apparently, even though we are ready to accept the idea that diet is responsible for our current personal plight but it's still a tremendous leap, perhaps too great a leap yet to extend this reasoning to our child's plight as well. It's absurd to continue to think this way for our children since the sooner we feed them properly, the healthier they will grow up to be.
Just yesterday, I saw a show on TV about the Inuit up North somewhere. There was this kid who played the guitar and singing in Montagnais. What I saw was so representative of what a high carb diet does to our bodies and faces. His face was very narrow and long. His eyes were very close together. This is quite a contrast to the wide faces of traditional Inuit living exclusive on meat in the pages of the book. Right away, I thought this "kid has been fed a high carb high starch diet".
A priori, the brain can't function properly when it's malnourished.
It's even more difficult to accept all these paradigm shifts since eating a high carb diet has a tremendous impact on our brain development throughout our life but most especially during fetal development. But I'll try to put it as plainly as I can. The brain is where the mind resides. It can only follow that for our mind to think clearly, the brain must be fed properly to begin with. The brain must be constructed properly to begin with, probably with the same substances that we should be using to fuel it. Ketones come to mind. It's now easy to see how our mind can't think clearly when its foundation, the brain, can't function properly due to malnutrition. It's difficult to see this when we consider the mind to be independent of the body (this is a paradigm in itself) but once we accept the idea that the mind resides in the brain and that the brain must be fed properly to function properly, then it's only natural to consider that our thoughts are probably just as dysfunctional as the brain that sprouted them. Then it's time to review everything we've been taking for granted all along.