The Greatest Nutrition Researcher of the 20th Century

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PBSPD — Sun, 31 May 2009 03:00:56 GMT

As my 87 year old grandmother likes to say: If it is boxed bottled or canned it's dogfood. - except I guess this video shows that processed food is not even fit for a dog or cat. The other old axium I have picked up from very old movies is eating a lot of sweets and pastries (read low fat diet) will make you sick. (back then they did what worked and did not worry about why it worked) I just heard in a health video that when food is cooked or pasturized you kill all the emzymes as well as any bacteria. That would explain the loss of reproduction. I know that our pancreas makes both insulin and digestive emzymes. Between the low fat diets and the cooking we must be killing our pancreases. hence the diabeties at youger and younger ages.

All makes sence to me

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GoldCoaster — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:08:11 GMT

I hope this article will lesson the number of people who come to this website bragging about being vegan and vegetarian.

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frascor — Tue, 26 May 2009 01:38:30 GMT

I agree with redbird. If you go back through our history of the foods we thought were bad and needing improvment, (sugar, butter, eggs, red meat, coconut oil, olive oil, breast milk, whole milk, etc., etc.), it seems that our "improved versions" are far worse,(aspartame, margerine, egg substitutes, soy, hydrogenated oils, baby formula, highly-processed low fat milk, etc.) I seems that the way GOD designed our food always ends up being the best way. Also, as amazing as Dr. Price was, he is not our "God Father".

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gurlidesk — Sun, 24 May 2009 15:44:50 GMT

I am very grateful for the very useful information that Dr. Mercola shares with us. I do wish, however, that he be more careful when discussing the prognosis of people as he does in this article. He says that: "if... their mouths are full of fillings and root canals, the prognosis is not as good." Someone reading this, who respects Dr. Mercola, as I do, and does have a mouth full of filling and root canals, may believe that they have little chance of getting better or even surviving. Beliefs are very, very powerful!

I believe that it's never too late to get better as long as you are alive. Someone very close to me got aggressive cancer that had spread to 8 lymph nodes at age 74. Her mouth was full of fillings and root canals... where she had any teeth left! She went to four or five different alternative doctors and followed a number of natural therapies that did not harm her immune system. She never had chemo or radiation "therapy" She did follow a healthful diet, take many, many supplements, take intravenous vitamin C and she had some bad (infected) root canals removed and cleaned as well as taking some natural antibiotics (like grapefruit seed extract) to fight the infection that the root canals had caused. This was 6 years ago and she is now a healthy 82 year old.

I hope everyone who is fighting an illness believes fully in their ability to heal and I hope that Dr. Mercola is a bit more careful and says things like: "having a mouth full of fillings and root canals requires a greater effort to undo the damage and heal."

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Don Fletcher — Sat, 23 May 2009 02:07:54 GMT

An area of concern when people take to eating only foods from close to home... some areas have soils that may not provide a totally healthy diet.

Our limestone areas of southern Ontario have varying fertility, but a fairly consistent deficiency, one we observe when feeding cattle, is that cattle can not make enough vitamin B-12 unless they are given supplemental cobalt. We make a point to provide a cobalt enhanced salt and an iodine enhanced salt. We also lack adequate iodine, but not just for cattle.

Our veterinarian mentioned that for any animal that eats only local vegetation, they will not have enough vitamin B-12 simply because they do not get enough cobalt.

Apparently the use of cobalt in the salt is done to make sure there is enough HCL in the stomach so that the B-12 manufactured can actually be absorbed in the gut.

Would this be something that might affect human vegetarians in some areas? It is not true for cattle everywhere. Some areas have adequate to excessive levels of cobalt, but I do not know what problems excessive cobalt has. Incidentally, cattle that do not get enough cobalt can have a lot of pain as their neural systems break down.

We humans mostly just get injections of B-12 so we can ignore cobalt shortage and low HCL stomach conditions.

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Goji — Fri, 22 May 2009 10:09:37 GMT

One of the things that would have changed since that time is the introduction of silicone in most modern toothpastes.... the idea being that it leaves the teeth slippery and smooth to the tongue therefor they feel cleaner. In fact the silicone coats the teeth and stops them from taking up minerals from your food which they can apparently do. Also one of the things that changes with people who no longer eat their traditional diets is a narrowing of the facial bones which leads to over crowding of the teeth, therefore more trapping of food, therefore more decay.

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babetteq — Fri, 22 May 2009 07:43:44 GMT

All nutrition aside.... "Eskimos"? We're still using this term? That's shocking. It's considered a pretty racist term.

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soleprobe — Fri, 22 May 2009 02:27:39 GMT

I have no problem with this except for the raw meat part. Cats are not people. Cats are carnivores and they kill and eat fresh raw kill. People have always cooked their meat. We were not designed by our Creator to chase down a wild boar and sink our teeth into its behind and pull it to the ground and start chewing its blood filled flesh while the animal's heart is still beating.

But whole unprocessed organic foods locally grown makes perfect sense. But don’t put this raw meat stuff on me. Some raw veggies that’s ok but I don’t have 3 stomachs like a cow so I’ll eat most of my veggies cooked. My 1 human stomach finds them a lot easier to digest when they are cooked.

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floating_anchor — Thu, 21 May 2009 23:16:18 GMT

people who i try and explain this sort of information to usually try and debunk my argument by saying everyone did eat organic and everyone died at age 35, so thats why we can eat fast food right! WRONG! but anyways who was the grand manipulator in convincing people that organic food isn't as good as 'their' food? curious....send me a message if you know whats up my people! ONE LOVE! NAMASTE!

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Runeweaver666 — Thu, 21 May 2009 18:57:35 GMT

I'm saddened the link included in report as reads; if you prefer a physical book OR you can download it for free if you don't mind electronic reading.

It doesn't work it gives this when clicked on; The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded.

Can this be fixed and we who'd love to read Dr. Price's fascinating work be updated so we can get the book to read???

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teen — Thu, 21 May 2009 17:28:20 GMT

i am familiar with weston a price and nourishing traditions, and try to adhere to their reco's as much as possible. i also have a nearly 2 year old toddler. i can tell you his food preferences: meat, (rare- medium rare roast beef adn steaks, chicken, salmon) eggs, cheese (he loves stinky raw milk cheeses but I will admit he also likes american, too). occasionally a little bit of fruit, some sourdough bread very occasionally. he recently tried miso soup and loved it. Oh, he also loves yogurt and kefir. he also loves ice cream a lot, i will admit. if i tried to give him a cookie or cracker, or cheerio, he would crunch and spit it out. now, he doesnt even bother with the crunching anymore. I feel as though his food prefs are a good indicator of how humans should eat. though i recognize he is still developing, and will probably handle grains better as he matures

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Von Carlos — Thu, 21 May 2009 15:43:13 GMT

It is very difficult to single out one researcher as the best. Although Dr. Weston Price is one of the most outstanding researchers in trophology I think it would be better to list the names of all the top researchers who have added to this science. I can't recall all the authors I have read over the last sixty years but here are a few who certainly should get honorable mention Dr. Royal Lee, Adele Davis, Dr. Hal Huggins , Rodale, Mercola and many more. Carleton E. McClure, D.C.

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dr jimni — Thu, 21 May 2009 14:15:39 GMT

I am responding to KathieJamisonCote. I am vey happy that you and your family are healthy Vegans. That is rare. Most Vegans I have seen during my 35 year practice in Naturopathic medicine are not healthy. They are typically anemic from a lack of B12, and have exhausted adrenal glands. It would be rare, but if your entire family is truly healthy on a Vegan diet, you must all have type A blood and sympathetic-dominant nervous systems.

Many years ago, I tried eating a strict macrobiotic diet, but after six months became very weak. Why? Because as a person with type O blood, and a nervous system that is balanced between parasypathetic and sympathetic, I require animal protein in order to be healthy.

The bottom line is; we are all different in requirements of basic nutrients. Although my grandmother ate pork bacon, which I advise against, and fried eggs every morning of her life from early childhood on, she lived a very healthy 96 years. Is this because of genetics? Yes, I think so. Her husband, my grandfather, died when he was 51. He ate mostly carbohydrates and died from complications of diabetes. I, as a blood type O, cannot tolerate carbohydrates and have blood sugar problems if I over eat foods high in carbohydrates.

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etim — Thu, 21 May 2009 13:13:38 GMT

Clicking the free DL link gives the error message: "The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded."

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folmerla — Thu, 21 May 2009 12:52:03 GMT

Please do not forget to recognize another nutritional great, genius, and inventor, Dr. Royal Lee.