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The Nature of Life in Health and Disease Including Dental Disease? This important article by Dr. Weston Price includes 16 graphs, posted at the end, showing heart disease mortality compared to vitamin content in local butter samples. Working with poor photocopies, and lacking Price's raw data, we have been able to reproduce only rough copies of these fascinating graphs. Nevertheless, the reader will appreciated how precious is this research by Dr. Weston Price. His studies could not be reproduced today, partly because we no longer consume local foods and partly because most people no longer consume butter, but it indicates a fruitful avenue of research; namely, that levels of fat soluble vitamins in the diet correlate with rates of heart disease. We hope that the reprinting of this article will spur further research. Dr. Weston A. Price and Fluoride: Letter to
Honorable Paul Martin, Minister of Health, Ottawa, Canada This letter was written in 1956 by Russell Pogue, a member of the American Nutrition Society, to the Canadian Minister of Health. The debate on fluoride continues today, fifty years later, with the proponents for nutrient-dense foods in one camp and those defending the quick fix of fluoride in the other. Dr. Price’s comparison of dietary nutrients and dental health for various population groups is an invaluable guide in the ongoing debate. Further Experiments on Cortico-Adrenal Extract:
Its Efficacy by Mouth Since the late 1890s, physicians have treated symptoms of adrenal cortex insufficiency with adrenal cortex extract (ACE), taken from the adrenal glands of animals. This treatment was found to be very effective for reversing hypoglycemia, chronic fatigue, alcoholism, allergies, arthritis and certain types of schizophrenia. In 1968, Dr. John Tintera published his book Hypoadrenocorticism, documenting the successes he had as a practitioner using adrenal cortex extract. He stated that his only failures were with patients who had been on the steroid drug prednisone first, which he found to be very toxic. Yet in 1978, the FDA submitted false data to justify removing ACE from the market, effectively rendering the public a captive audience for prednisone, which the FDA said was safe. For forty years, Physicians' Desk Reference recorded no adverse effects from ACE. Today even mainstream medical journals identify prednisone as very toxic. This article, reprinted from Science, October 30, 1931, demonstrates the extent to which ACE was the object of scientific inquiry in the early part of the century. How shameful that this treatment is not readily available today, to help patients overcome addictions to soft drinks and other drugs. King's American Dispensatory on
Cod Liver Oil This 1898 classic revision of Professor John King's original work of 1852 is an encyclopedic text that encompasses the entire materia medica of the Eclectic physicians of the last century. The term Eclectic Medicine was coined by Dr. Constantine Rafinesque (1784-1841), a physician who lived among the Native Americans, and observed their use of medicinal plants and other traditional therapies. The Eclectic Medical Institute was created in the early 1830s in Ohio as an alternative to the conventional medicine of the time. Eclectic physicians adopted in practice whatever modality was beneficial to their patients. Dispensatories present therapies whose effectiveness has been verified with patients in both clinical and hospital settings. The entry excerpt details the medical actions, uses and dosage of cod liver oil. The Socio-Cultural Syndrome of Milk This article by anthropologist H. Leon Abrams, Jr., was published in the Journal of Applied Nutrition, Volume 27, Number 4, Winter, 1975. It is particularly valuable in its description of blindness caused by the consumption of nonfat milk powder, leading to vitamin A depletion. At "Wise Traditions 2005," we learned from Dr. Noel Solomons that documents describing these effects had actually been classified as "Top Secret" and filed away from the eyes of the public! The dangers of a high-protein diet, from the consumption of lean meat, skim milk, protein powders and egg whites without the yolks, is an important theme at the Weston A. Price Foundation. Professor Abrams also discusses problems of lactose intolerance that manifest in non-milk-drinking cultures where milk is introduced as a new food. It should be noted that this milk is highly processed industrial milk (pasteurized, powdered or condensed) and that the problems that arise may be due to a number of factors besides lactose intolerance. In Nutrition and Phystical Degeneration, Dr. Price describes excellent health among native Americans living on a reservation who had a dairy herd. The milk they were drinking without problem was presumably raw. Teeth and Bone Hardness
in Diagnosis and Prevention of Premature Aging Reprinted from the Journal of the District of Columbia Dental Society, March 1971. Vitamin A Deficiency Excerpt from "The Pathologic Changes Resulting from Vitamin Deficiency," The Journal of the American Medical Association, January 2, 1937. Vitamins in Immunity and Growth In this excerpt, first published as a section in "Seasonal Variations in Butter-Fat Vitamins and Their Relation to Seasonal Morbidity, Including Dental Caries and Disturbed Calcification," in the Journal of the American Dental Association, May 1930, Price touches on many themes, including the vital role of the fat-soluble activators A and D and the importance of pasture feeding. His remarks on the variation of quality in mammalian milk, in humans as well as cows, and the dependence of Americans on milk products in the 1930s are especially interesting. Unfortunately, the American dairy industry has not followed Price's advice, which was to develop methods for increasing the levels of fat-soluble vitamins naturally occurring in butterfat. Instead the milk industry opted for confinement feeding and "enrichment" of substandard milk with synthetic vitamins. What You Should Know About Your GlandsBy John Tintera, MD. Reprinted with kind permission of the Adrenal Metabolic Research Society/Hypoglycemia Association Inc., Ashton, MD. This article was first published in Woman's Day, February 1958. Dr. Tintera was a pioneer in the use of adrenal cortex extract for the treatment of hypoglycemia, allergies, fatigue and adrenal exhaustion. <Back | Home | Tour | Calendar | Contact Us | Funding | Join Now |
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