Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, published in 1939 by Dr. Weston A. Price, is an enduring classic with a message that puts the people of Earth on notice: Eat right or destroy your progeny. During the 1920s and 1930s Dr. and Mrs. Price traveled the globe to all habitable continents, photographing and recording the insidious effects of the modern diet on newly exposed indigenous people, their offspring, and their culture. Dr. Price, a superb field photographer, made a stunning visual record of the physical characteristics of native populations living on traditional diets and the subsequent altered features of their children as these family units came in contact with, and incorporated, modern adulterated foods. Irrespective of the setting--a naval base installation in the tropical South Pacific; a new trading post near the Arctic; roads built to connect previously remote alpine valleys; or encroachment of coastal cities into an arid expanse of isolated "outback" (Australia)--the result of the contact and assimilation was always the same: the indigenous people were seduced into eating what Dr. Price referred to as the "foods of commerce" (refined, processed, denatured, chemicalized non-foods). Within a single generation, their freedom from chronic disease was lost and physical degeneration set in. The next generation paid a high price, and it got worse with each subsequent generation: tooth decay, tuberculosis, physical deformities, arthritis, diabetes, diseases of the GI tract, infertility, cancer, and mental illness. Diseases, often lacking names or descriptions in the local language, soon become as common as they were in the modern "civilized" population. 

-- Mark R. Anderson

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