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in the night and massacred almost the entire Perhaps, however, there is a light at the Often the
population” (page 107). end of the tunnel. With the apparent rise of
Price also recounted the following about the infertility, natural selection may indeed begin fake foods
tribes he studied in Africa: operating in favor of traditional wisdom, the that cause
prospect of which is sad, to say the least. Given malnutrition
The native African is not only chafing under the urgency of the situation, and the desire to live
the taxation by foreign overlords, but is con- well ourselves and see our friends and family and are
scious that his race becomes blighted when neighbors live well, we also have the internet, manufactured
met by our modern civilization. I found them our local chapters and meetups, and many ways to have
well aware of the fact that those of their tribes to propagate wisdom through the superior and
who had adopted European methods of liv- more humane force of persuasion, and this may drug-like
ing and foods not only developed rampant just be our salvation—in an ironic twist, the gift addictive
tooth decay, but other degenerative processes of modern civilization, perhaps finally beginning qualities.
(page 160). to heal itself.

Many of the groups that became modernized REfEREncES
were not so wise as to notice this trend. Indeed, 1. Price, WA. Nutrition and Physical Degeneration: Eighth
Edition. La Mesa, cA: Price-Pottenger nutrition founda-
Price tried to establish a dental clinic among tion (2008). All page numbers given in the text refer to
this edition.
modernized Swiss, and the people objected that 2. Danielson DR, Reinhard KJ. Human dental microwear
if the girls did not have all their teeth extracted caused by calcium oxalate phytolithis in prehistoric diet
and replaced with artificial teeth while they were of the lower Pecos region, Texas. Am J Phys Anthropol.
1998;107(3):297-304.
young, they would just wind up losing them later 3. Saraf S. Textbook of Oral Pathology. new Dehli, India:
Jaypee Brothers Medical Publishers, Ltd. (2006), p. 160.
and would never be able to marry (page 41). 4. Walker MJ, Zapata J, Lombardi AV, Trinkaus E. new Evi-
Thus we see that many groups may have ac- dence of Dental Pathology in 40,000-year-old neandertals.
J Dent Res. 2011;90:428-32.
cumulated wisdom about how to thrive in their 5. Duyar I, Erdal YS. A new approach for calibrating dental
own environment without having in some cases caries frequency of skeletal remains. Journal of Compara-
tive Human Biology. 2003;54(1):57-70.
the wisdom or in other cases the opportunity to 6. Loch c, Grando LJ, Kieser JA, Simoes-Lopes P. Dental
retain their way of life once they encountered pathology in dolphins (cetacea: Delphinidae) from the
southern coast of Brazil. Dis Aquat Org. 2011;94:225-34.
“our so-called modern civilization.” 7. Sone K, Koyasu K, Tanaka S, Oda S. Effects of diet on the
Some groups may have resisted this transi- incidence of dental pathology in free living caviomorph
rodents. Arch Oral Biol. 2005;50(3):323-31.
tion either because of greater opportunity or 8. Bode AM, Dong Z. Epigallocatechin 3-gallate and green
greater wisdom. Thus a natural selection of sorts tea catechins: United they work, divided they fail. Cancer
has favored the groups with both the wisdom and Prev Res (Phila). 2009;2(6):514-7.
opportunity to maintain their traditional ways of
life.
Others may not have encountered modern
civilization at all, and thus retained their tradi-
tional ways of life because of circumstance.
The prospect of traditional wisdom winning
out currently seems dim. Modern civilization
touts many things to be admired, but the dark
side of its so-called nutritional knowledge is ONE HALF MILLION!
presented in a devious package. Often the fake
foods that cause malnutrition are manufactured That’s the number of informational bro-
to have drug-like addictive qualities. It peddles chures we have printed since the Weston A.
Price Foundation was founded in 1999. These
the illusion of ease with its elevators and office brochures have helped educate thousands and
chairs. Its televisions and radios and educational have served as our number-one membership
systems constitute unparalleled systems of mass tool. To order brochures to give to family,
media that embed its ideologies within the minds friends and colleagues, visit www.westona-
of its students. price.org.
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