The most vegetarian-like diet studied is of the Quetchus Indians on the Capachica Peninsula near Puno in Peru. He wrote of these peoples with respect, giving credit to their traditional nutritional knowledge and practices.

In addition, it also gives a glimpse into the wisdom of the primitives and show us a little how we can live in such a way that we can get many of the same benefits that they received.New regulations required that white flour be “enriched” with nutrients, including thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, and iron. The diet of the people in the Outer Hebrides was chiefly oat products and sea foods including the wide variety of fish there. So if you eat a highly processed diet, particularly things with refined white sugars, and of course nowadays we have things like corn syrup and the seed oils etc.

p 290 Also of note is that “two different teachers came to me to inquire what had been done to make a particular child change from one of the poorest in the class in capacity to learn to one of the best. I believe that the feelings are probably the primary cause, but everything is interconnected, and good nutrition is obviously absolutely important. I've read The China Study and am trying to decide how to apply them both, since they seem to contradict each other. Some of them were in Europe, there was an isolated community in the Swiss mountains; he also goes to a little fishing island in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland; there were also Native Americans in Alaska; he goes through Northern and Eastern Africa; he goes to New Zealand and South America as well.He goes on to document what happens when these healthy communities are introduced to modern foods and the results are tragic. The quality of this particular edition is exactly what is needed for something you will want to refer to for a lifetime and pass on to your children. this organization is promoting wholesome eating, good health and vitality through the foundations of good nutrition, which Dr.

Only the vitamins and minerals present in non-synthetic primitive diets can ward off such modern ills as heart disease, dental crowding, and infant deformities.

Many factory workers started their day with a slice of white bread spread with sugar-packed jam, marmalade, or treacle — many calories, few nutrients. Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get through this voluminous, dense book, which is a classic within the field of dentistry. It’s not just about teeth, it’s not just about diet, it’s about our whole health and even how our societies are laid out. The results of that journey, photographed regularly and precisely, can leave little doubt: the modern diet kills. not an MD) wrote this in 1939 after studying the effects of various diets on isolated, primitive peoples.