What Are Nutritional Diseases?What Are Nutritional Diseases? In their book, The Modern Nutritional Diseases, Fred and Alice Ottoboni, retired Public Health Service scientists, list the following.
• Obesity
Modern nutritional diseases are just that. They haven't always been the ugly part of our life. They were introduced when people had to get their food from grocery stores, when people traded their whole foods from the family farm for those manufactured by the food processing industry. About 80 to 120 years ago diets and nutrition in the west began to change. The change was to modern diets, nutritional diseases, and declining health. The modern nutritional diseases in this country became prominent in the last 120 years when diets began to change, and when medicine changed from a service to a "profit driven exploitation of captive ignorant customers". Quotation is at URL http://faculty.washington.edu/ely/SciEssNutr.html in the 3rd paragraph. Migration to the cities and slums took place with the rise of industry. Not every one fancied life on the farm as the ultimate goal in life. Food had to be obtained from the grocery store. When foods were prepared by industry, nutrients were lost, and empty calories appeared in the products on grocery store shelves. Nutritious preparations have not been a target of the food processing industry. They have been concerned with taste and shelf life.
Whole Food Diets of the Ages and Health The ageless whole food diets, followed for thousands of years, gave people immunity to many diseases that plague us today. Those who followed the ageless diets were virtually free from dental decay, obesity, diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, stroke, and cancer. As long as they remained on their whole food diets they were free from debilitating diseases that grip us today. Whole foods included fish from the sea or lakes. Animal meat sources, including animal fat, came from their flocks: cattle, goats and sheep, various kinds of fowl, clean raw1 whole milk, butter and cheese. Fruits, vegetables, and coarse whole grain breads rounded out their diets. 1.Don’t ever attempt to consume raw milk products from most of today's dairy farm. Their products are dangerous because of the high levels of disease producing organisms, hormones and antibiotics. Cookbook for Whole Foods There are many choices in a cook book that specializes in recipes for whole food sources. There is also extensive information about nutrients and their need by the human body. Information about the Nourishing Traditions cookbook by Sally Fallon with Mary Enig from the Weston A Price Foundation is found at the URL http://newtrendspublishing.com/SallyFallon/index.html Ageless Diets and Nutritional Diseases
The diet of isolated peoples, living prior to the 1920s and 30s, largely consisted of sea or land animals supplemented by plants in their locale. They were vigorous, healthy and long-lived on their local diets. When isolated peoples changed their local diet(s) to foods of commerce containing white flour, white rice and sugary foods these people groups then lost their health and their immunity to the modern nutritional diseases. Failing Health on the Whiteman's Store Grub Health began to fail in the first generation that succumbed to the white mans white flour, white rice and sugary foods. “Isolated Irish fishermen, tribal Africans such as the Masai, Pacific islanders like the Melanesians and Polynesians, Eskimos, North and South American Indians and Australian Aborigines.” All followed the same trends. There was evidence of health degeneration and loss of immunity to nutritional diseases in the first generation that switched foods. This evidence was:
The increase in dental decay was noted by Weston A. Price, DDS, in his book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. Pictures of bone deformation and crowded teeth were evident in the first generation children of those who ate the foods of commerce. His book is available at URL http://www.ppnf.org/catalog/index.php Dr. Price' opinion was that dental disease is an indicator of serious metabolic deficiencies within the body. Tuberculosis and Cancer Tuberculosis was a second evidence of the loss of immunity and health degeneration among the Indians and Eskimos of Northern Canada and Alaska. The disease was often fatal. This disease was not found in people eating their local foods. A surgeon who lived among the Indians and Eskimos for many years had never seen cancer among those living on their native diets. Apparently they retained their immunity only because of their diet. Malignancy was quite common among Indians and Eskimos who ate the store foods supplied by the white man. Dairy Farmers and Nutritional Diseases The lack of tuberculosis was also true among the dairy farmers of the Loetschental Valley in the Swiss Alps. Checking through the death records of the Valley in the early 1930s Dr. Price found that no one in the Valley had ever died of tuberculosis. This was true even during the tuberculosis epidemic in Switzerland when thousands were dying of the disease in other parts of the country. The diet of the Loetschental Valley inhabitants consisted of raw (1) dairy products including milk, butter, and cheese. They grew their own rye grains in the Valley floor, which they ground and baked into coarse bread. Gardens provided fruits and vegetables to supplement their diet. (1 Todays dairy products are not suitable to be consumed straight from the cow. Even though pasteurization is needed because of the large disease producing microorganism contamination, the process does irreparable harm to dairy products. A comparison of clean raw whole milk and pasteurized homogenized milk is at URL http://www.modern-diets-and-nutritional-diseases.com/raw-milk.html (Go to text link at the bottom of the page). Homogenization destroys the fat soluble vitamins, and is not desirable in any milk product. Meat in the Loetschental diet was provided once a week when an animal was killed. Dr. Price examined hundreds of teeth in the Valley and found little evidence of dental decay. The exceptions were those who left the Valley for a period of time and then returned. The returnees showed considerable evidence of dental decay which was arrested when they returned to their local diet. The Valley inhabitants had one church, one pastor, and an excellent school system. They had no police, no jails, no asylums, no doctors, no hospitals, no dentists and no need of any of these. There were some people living near the Valley who adopted the white flour and sugary diets common to many Swiss people. Dental decay was rampant in the teeth of those people. The diseases that plaque us today are the same ones developed by isolated peoples when they traded their ageless native diets of thousands of years for the white mans foods of commerce. The foods of commerce today are the same as they were 75 to 100 years ago except we have more choices. Raw Milk and Meat Eaters
Two prominent African tribes were milk and meat eaters. The Masai drank about a half gallon milk a day, mixed in blood occasionally and ate even more meat than the Samburu as noted by US scientists who determined cholesterol levels among some of these tribes. The Samburu drank up to 1.5 gallons of raw milk a day and indulged in meat eating orgies of 2-4 lbs a piece. The fat content of both tribes diet was very high, perhaps twice as much as US fat and cholesterol ingestion. Available fruits and vegetables were considered cattle fodder by both tribes. Heart disease? None found. Cholesterol numbers, as measured by US scientists, half what average US cholesterol levels are.
Reaction of US Physicians, Food and Drug Industries? Ignore the whole shebang. Maybe double their TV advertising to the contrary. Several other African tribes were included in Dr. Price' survey. Raw milk and meat eaters, either cattle or fish, had little or no evidence of tooth decay, and had high resistance to diseases that decimated foreign visitors. Those tribes that relied on grains and vegetables had increasing tooth decay up to over 7% of teeth examined. Those Africans that departed their local diets in favor of the white mans foods of commerce suffered declining health including extensive tooth decay. In another study 25 Masai men living in an African town had 25% higher cholesterol levels than their country counterparts. South Pacific Island Dwellers Island dwellers from the South Pacific had little tooth decay while on their native diets. This included large amounts of fish from the sea supplemented by select fruits and vegetables from the islands. They could not find any in those islands who lived exclusively on foods from the land. Pictures of those on their local foods showed beautiful sets of teeth with dental arches that included 3rd molars. Sugar Plantations and Health Decline The substitution of white flour, white rice and sugary foods usually came about because of the white man setting up a sugar plantation in the islands. The local population provided the labor and the natives were paid in the foods of commerce rather than currency. The results were disastrous. Health immediately declined in island dwellers who abandoned their local diets. Tooth decay skyrocketed from 0.14% on their local diets up to 30.1% of teeth in those on the foods of commerce. Representatives of both peoples were examined by Dr. Price. The first generation of those whose parents chose the white mans sugary foods showed evidence of narrowed dental arches, and crowded or missing teeth. Pictures are available in Dr. Price' book. Suffering from dental decay became a cause for suicide by some. Plan of the Website Do I have your attention now? I hope so. The health of you and your family may depend on it. We’ll begin a journey that will review research results in books and articles. For those who enjoy the technicalities, we’ll share references. It’s quite a journey. We’ll learn where we need to go to obtain the health and wholeness these bodies can give us. We’ll learn what foodstuffs to avoid to reduce the development of nutritional diseases. We’ll also learn what foodstuffs will help lead us to the health these bodies were endowed with. By the way, where do we need to go to reclaim the health with which these marvelous bodies were endowed? Back to the days when conscientious farmers supplied us with clean raw whole milk from pasture fed cattle. Back to the days when the family and farmers gardens supplied us with wholesome fruits and vegetables free from the poisons applied today. There's a health care crisis in this country. Seniors on fixed incomes don't have dental insurance. Thousands of children without health insurance are being made a political football. Those old enough to be on Medicare are told by some providers they don't take Medicare patients. I am absolutely sure I would rather have the health primitive peoples once had than to have access to health insurance. It is possible to have better health than what the supermarket shelves provide. It will require education, perhaps hard decisions, and changes in lifestyle.
As one lady said on a TV ad she has just one life and one body, and she wants to get it right. Her choice won't get her the best result. But for you it can happen. The road starts here.
There is hope, but nothing worthwhile ever comes without effort and dedication.
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