Weston Price in the 1930s was searching for the answers to two important questions: Were there people living in other regions of the world who were free from tooth decay, crooked teeth, and other diseases of civilization? And if so, what were they eating?
Category: Nutrition Classics
THE PERFECT HUMAN DIET
Full Documentary (2012)
Even though our staple foods have drastically changed in our recent history, our basic genetic nature has remained the same. Genetically, we are identical to our hunter-gatherer ancestors. We therefore require for optimal health those same types of foods.
Saturated fat is good for you, but we’ve been advised by medical and health authorities to consume vegetable oils and margarine instead, which, unlike natural saturated fats, really do cause disease. This horrific advice has sickened and killed millions.
We should look to traditional cultures to determine what constitutes a healthy diet. Ancient dietary traditions of so-called primitive people embodied far more nutritional wisdom than our modern health trends and health gurus, who simply can’t be trusted.
“I’ve spent several years studying the primitive people in various parts of the world, and I’ve come as a missionary from them to the people of modern civilization, and I beg of you to learn of their accumulated wisdom.”
—Weston Price
