{"id":55410,"date":"2025-08-29T13:44:40","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realrawfood.com\/?p=55410"},"modified":"2025-08-29T13:57:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T20:57:26","slug":"nutrition-and-physical-degeneration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realrawfood.com\/nutrition-and-physical-degeneration\/","title":{"rendered":"Nutrition and Physical Degeneration"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Nutrition and Physical Degeneration<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n
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A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Diets
and Their Effects

BY<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Weston A. Price, MS., D.D.S., F.A.G.D.
Member Research Commission, American Dental Association
Member American Association of Physical Anthropologists
Author, “Dental Infections, Oral and Systemic”<\/p>\n

Foreword by<\/p>\n

Earnest Albert Hooton
Professor of Anthropology,<\/i>
Harvard University<\/i><\/p>\n

With 134 figures<\/p>\n


Paul B. Hoeber, Inc
Medical Book Department of Harper & Brothers
New York London
Copyright, 1939, by Paul B. Hoeber, Inc.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

All rights reserved. This book or any
part thereof must not be reproduced
in any form without permission of the
publishers. Printed in the United
States of America.<\/p>\n

To that kindred soul\u00a0My Wife\u00a0who has assisted me so greatly
on these difficult expeditions,\u00a0this book is lovingly dedicated.<\/p>\n<\/address><\/div>\n

Contents<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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List of Illustrations<\/span><\/a>
Preface<\/span><\/a><\/span>
Foreword by Earnest A. Hooton<\/a>
Introduction<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Why Seek Wisdom from Primitive Races<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  2. The Progressive Decline of Modern Civilization<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Isolated and Modernized Swiss<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Isolated and Modernized Gaelics<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Isolated and Modernized Eskimos<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Primitive and Modernized North American Indians<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Isolated and Modernized Melanesians<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Isolated and Modernized Polynesians<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Isolated and Modernized African Tribes<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  10. Isolated and Modernized Australian Aborigines<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  11. Isolated and Modernized Torres Strait Islanders<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  12. Isolated and Modernized New Zealand Maori<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  13. Ancient Civilizations of Peru<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  14. Isolated and Modernized Peruvian Indians<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  15. Characteristics of Primitive and Modernized Dietaries<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  16. Primitive Control of Dental Caries<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  17. One Origin of Physical Deformities<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  18. Prenatal Nutritional Deformities and Disease Types<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  19. Physical, Mental and Moral Deterioration<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  20. Soil Depletion and Plant and Animal Deterioration<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n
  21. Practical Applications of Primitive Wisdom<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n

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      Nutrition and Physical Degeneration A Comparison of Primitive and Modern Dietsand Their Effects BY Weston A. Price, MS., D.D.S., F.A.G.D.Member Research Commission, American Dental AssociationMember American Association of Physical AnthropologistsAuthor, “Dental Infections, Oral and Systemic” Foreword by Earnest Albert HootonProfessor of Anthropology,Harvard University With 134 figures Paul B. Hoeber, IncMedical Book Department of Harper & […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7698,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[442],"class_list":["post-55410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realrawfood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realrawfood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realrawfood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realrawfood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7698"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realrawfood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.realrawfood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realrawfood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realrawfood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realrawfood.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}