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Originally Posted by Kulapops
To summarise, the book looks at four of the main 'evils' we face in the food we eat :
1: Sugar
2: Refined, processed white flour
3: Dairy
4: Refined, processed oils, particularly fried refined oils
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I agree with all that with the exception of raw dairy from organic grass-fed cows.
Most grocery store dairy is evil slow-poison.
The rest is a snippet from an article here:
http://www.westonaprice.org/motherli...tschental.html
A Visit to Switzerland's Loetschental
in the Footsteps of Weston A. Price
By Linda Joyce Forristal, CCP, MTA
In his global travels during the 1930s, Weston A. Price sought out locations where people were not yet eating what he called the "displacing food of modern commerce." One of the places Price visited was Switzerland’s Lötschental--an isolated valley then only accessible by a footpath. It was so isolated from the rest of Switzerland, let alone the world, that the residents existed on what they could grow in the valley, with no food brought in from outside, with the exception of salt.
Their diet primarily consisted of dairy products (raw milk, butter, cream and raw milk cheese) from cows grazing on lush alpine slopes, and rye bread, or roggenbrot, from rye grown in the valley. They ate meat about once a week, usually veal, using all the parts and making soup with the bones, and some vegetables during the summer months. The raw milk, butter and cream from cows eating lush green grass were a rich source of vitamins A and D.
With the help of a Swiss dentist who was his travel companion and the community elders Price was able to examine the mouths of many valley inhabitants. He reported that the majority of the residents had healthy, straight teeth. Price only found one cavity in every three mouths, which was about 1 percent tooth decay. Both adults and children had broad, well-developed faces and palates, good dispositions and sturdy bodies. He noted that the children played barefoot in frigid streams during cold weather and that there were no cases of TB in the valley.
In other parts of Switzerland, Price studied the "modernized Swiss," who lived in towns accessible by roads and therefore got their food from stores selling sugar, white flour, pastries, jams and jellies, canned condensed milk, canned foods and vegetable oils. They were experiencing dental caries in one tooth in three, or 33 percent tooth decay, and the younger generations had dental deformities, overlapping, crowded and crooked teeth and narrow faces. TB was a huge problem in these communities.