Using Primitive Wisdom to Radically Improve Your Health
Posted By Dr. Mercola | January 11 2012
In his seminal book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Weston Price emphasized the degeneration in human health caused by the transition to the modern industrial diet. But simplifying his observation into the idea that tooth decay and other degenerative diseases are just the result of modern life and diet ignores his focus on what he called primitive wisdom.
Price wrote that it was accumulated wisdom regarding food that was behind the physical excellence of hunter-gatherers. He drew a distinction between wisdom and the mere accumulation of knowledge, noting that insisting on knowing every detail of an approach, rather than acting based on traditional wisdom, is not necessarily the best course.
According to the Weston A. Price Foundation: “The prospect of traditional wisdom winning out currently seems dim. Modern civilization touts many things to be admired, but the dark side of its so-called nutritional knowledge is presented in a devious package. Often the fake foods that cause malnutrition are manufactured to have drug-like addictive qualities. It peddles the illusion of ease with its elevators and office chairs. Its televisions and radios and educational systems constitute unparalleled systems of mass media that embed its ideologies within the minds of its students.”
Winston’s Comment:
One of my favorite books “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration”, By Weston A. Price, who was a dentist observed the traditional wisdom of primitive societies. He observed their diets, how healthy they were and how unhealthy they became when they adopted modern mans diet.
With the mass media and Drug Company’s power to infiltrate higher education we have the food pyramid that teaches the masses how to eat and become ill so that they can sell more drugs. With the lowered IQ this process becomes easier and easier to accomplish each and every year.
None the less, high fructose, high carbohydrate, high wheat & gluten diets have risen to the forefront of anyone who is health conscious while it continues to ravage the health of unsuspecting, uncaring masses.
Dr. Price was often called to the bedside of dying individuals, when last rites were administered. He brought with him two things: a bottle of cod liver oil and a bottle of high vitamin butter oil from cows eating growing grass. He put drops of both under the tongue of the patient. More often than not, the patient revived. He was puzzled by the fact that cod liver oil alone and butter alone seldom revived the dying patient, but the two together worked like magic.” From the book: Tripping Lightly Down the Prostaglandin Pathways
Like Dr. Price I also noted that consuming cod liver oil by itself vs. the Super Energy Booster which mixes cod liver oil with calphonite (calcium/phosphorous ground down to one atom size) plus the support structures of fulvic acid, brewers yeast, acerola cherry powder and Inner Garden™ as a combination have a synergistic power and is certainly greater than any individual item in the formula on its own.
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