There is a real sense of horror, chapter after chapter, of seeing the after-effects of modern foods on various peoples. It remains the basic book in this area and is essential reading for those concerned with food and health.

After a year of improved diet where white flour products were removed, and small doses of cod liver oil were added, together with “specially high vitamin butter produced by cows pasturing on green wheat”, the boy’s pain had subsided, his appetite had improved, he slept soundly and he had gained rapidly in weight. I would only recommend it to those readers who are deeply interested in the unhealthy effects of modern nutrition and would not mind a bit of a boring read just for the sake of finding more evidences that support their opinion.

The people were healthy in every way, bones and teeth were well formed and there was little disease.

So this should really have been an amazing finding to educate people of the time and instruct how we conduct our societies and sort out what we eat, because what is the point of civilisation? Although not all arguments were entirely substantiated, the overall picture shows the potential harm our Western diet can inflict.His focus was to find societies untouched by Western society who thus still existed totally on a diet of indigenous foods. Childbearing in primitive cultures is prepared for months in advance; the result is that it is often a quick and simple event, contrasted to the arduous, lengthy experience of many women in Western societies. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get through this voluminous, dense book, which is a classic within the field of dentistry.

It’s about eating food that’s fresh and not processed, and also eating a wider range of things, like the organs, and other plants and things that we otherwise neglect, especially ones that are local. For every day, increase bone broths, choose meat and vegetables with the highest nutritional content, eat local and pesticide free and from scratch where possible, and include a good cod liver oil. In numerous locations, 20 years after the arrival of white flour and white sugar, primitive people started to suffer from heart disease, hypertension, diabetes, gallbladder disease, and colitis. The experts cannot seem to make up their minds on which individual foods are good for you and which are bad.Proper nutrition will reduce the number of cavities, reduce risk of disease, make childbirth easier and reduce risk of mental and physical deformities in infants and adults. Make particular efforts to get double to quadruple the minimum daily amounts of calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, and iron along with natural Vitamins A, B, C, D, and E. I believe that the feelings are probably the primary cause, but everything is interconnected, and good nutrition is obviously absolutely important. This book is a fascinating story of a dentist in early last century who traveled to pockets of people still eating their age-old ancestral diet.