"If Weston Price is a guru in the field of nutrition, then we could not
select a better guide. He wrote a book entitled "Nutrition and Physical
Degeneration". It is about actual scientific obervations of the
physical condition of various groups of people and it relates their
physical condition directly to their nutrition. If you are considering
learning about nutrition, this is information that one must have. So,
Weston Price is a guru. As he should be."
I read the book sometime ago, long before you I dare say. Price is dead,
he didn't start the cult which has raised him to the status of a saint,
but he serves their agenda nonetheless. His is an intresting work but
uneven in it's quality and certainly nothing on which even a small part of
the science of nutrition could be supported. But a cult needs a guru and
like other lifestyle cults involving food, they are hardly a summit of
science to which to aspire. The cult ignores, perhaps even being ignorant
of, the great deal of cross cultural nutritional work done during and
after the time of price which supercedes it in every respect and in some
contridicts his informal observations ,with scientific data collection.
His methods were spotty and even crude at times. The best of it is that
he was best positioned to observe that adding considerable amounts of
sugar to one's diet causes tooth decay, he being a dentist.
TC - 17 Jun 2005 21:27 GMT
> "If Weston Price is a guru in the field of nutrition, then we could not
> select a better guide. He wrote a book entitled "Nutrition and Physical
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> he was best positioned to observe that adding considerable amounts of
> sugar to one's diet causes tooth decay, he being a dentist.
Sounds like you prefer another set of gurus. Perhaps the mystic eastern
touchy-feely save-the-trees and spare-the-poor-animals cult? Good for
you. Just don't try to pass it off as somehow nutritionally or
scientifically sound.
TC