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To: redhead; dennisw
redhead: I am a member of the Weston A. Price Foundation

Me too!

As a kid, studying human origins -- not just for school but as a hobby -- I was perplexed that ~90% of my peers wouldn't have made it a few centuries ago, and couldn't find an evolutionary explanation. Why did I and a few others have straight teeth, 20/20 vision, etc, and the rest mostly didn't? How could the gene pool deteriorate that quickly after the relaxation of selection? It didn't make sense. THEN... at age 12.. I stumbled upon Nutrition & Physical Degeneration in a healthfood store. I never forgot what I saw (1 picture is worth 1000 words). There was the answer to the mystery: our modern physicial degeneration was nutritional, and reversible.

Of course, nobody else wanted to hear it. Dentists, in particular, are taught in dental school that malocclusion is 'genetic', and the idea of preventing that (or any other structural defect) by "primitive" prenatal nutrition was alien to them. In fact, people in general just gave me a blank look if I tried to talk about it, so I mostly stopped, and for many years I carried this knowledge around with me, alone -- through school, college, gradschool (Ph.D. in chemistry), and out into the working world. But at least I ate well, even if nobody else around me did.

Then one fine day, at age 37, I idly threw the name "Weston Price" into a search engine and found the Weston A Price foundation, which happened to have a local chapter. After my first meeting, I told them all, "I waited 25 years to have these conversations!"

A raw-milk toast to both of you!

200 posted on 03/17/2003 3:34:11 PM PST by Rytwyng
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To: Rytwyng
Have you ever read William Albrecht? 

http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010143albpap/010143idx.html

http://www.soilandhealth.org/01aglibrary/010143albpap/010143csiro.htm

Please scroll 2/3 the way down to read about Kansas wheat and the health of Army recruits from West (arid) and East (more rain) Kansas. Out of respect for the www.soilandhealth.org  website I am not posting their images.

Fig. 11. (Continued). Protein concentration in wheat in Kansas, 1949.

Fig. 12. The concentration of dental caries per inductee into the United States Navy 1942 gives a reciprocal curve at that for soil development under the climatic, forces. The minimum of caries is in the Mid-continental area of maximum of soil construction. There is an increase in caries in going westward from there to soils less developed, and more so in going eastward to soils more highly developed.

210 posted on 03/17/2003 5:11:16 PM PST by dennisw ( http://www.littlegreenfootballs.com/weblog/weblog.php)
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