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Build Health: Know Where Chronic Disease Comes From
Copyright 2004 William R. Quesnell
Weston Price, a dentist and researcher, lived here in the United
States, in Cleveland. He was interested in disease origins, the
factors that cause disease.
Price noted his patients had the obvious dental problems of tooth
decay, gum problems, poor jaw structure and crowded teeth,
but he was curious why they also were victimized by chronic
diseases.
They suffered from infertility, cancer, arthritis and heart
disease, the same lot that plagues us as we enter the new
millennium.
As a matter of fact, things haven't changed very much since Dr.
Price's day. 98% of our people are afflicted with dental decay;
24 out of 25 children have become victims of dental disease
before age six; and degenerative disease is rampant.
The genius of Weston Price lay in his deciding it made no sense
to run with the crowd whose research efforts centered upon the
diseased.
Instead of focusing his efforts in the U.S., where people are
predisposed to degenerative disease, he decided to look at
healthy folks. To find healthy folks, Price decided he had to go
elsewhere.
So he packed up, went to the mountains in Peru, remote South
Pacific islands, the back country of Africa and Australia,
distant villages in the Swiss Alps, Alaska and northern Canada,
and some obscure islands off Scotland.
Instead of walking through the door of disease and treatment, as
does the medical research establishment, Price walked through
the door of health and prevention.
What exactly did Price do?
By looking in distant people's mouths he generated a lot of
statistics, and he took many pictures of the healthy people he
studied.
>From a dental standpoint he found good jaw structure, straight
teeth, no gum disease and no decay. And, lo and behold, the
dentally healthy did not suffer from obesity, nor arthritis,
cancer or heart disease.
Dr. Price's research showed how healthy people eat. By
examining their diets he discovered the foods they ate were
nutrient-dense.
Their diets were very rich in minerals and vitamins. Their foods
had four times the amount of minerals found in the American diet
of Price's time, back in the 1930's & 40's.
Price's healthy ones ate foods naturally rich in minerals, either
seafood from mineral-rich waters or meats and vegetables from
animals and plants that were nourished by mineral-rich soil.
Price discovered a routine pattern developed when those healthy
people adopted our refined, processed foods based upon sugar
and white flour, what he called the "foods of commerce."
Without fail, wherever the trading post was located, tooth decay
and gum disease began to skyrocket, and people soon
developed arthritis, followed by the other degenerative diseases
found in modern Europe and America.
You and I are just like those folks. When we consume food and
water deficient in minerals, our metabolic enzyme systems break
down, and we too begin to lose our immunity to degenerative
disease.
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Bill Quesnell, health educator and author of 'Minerals: The
Essential Link to Health,' helps people recover energy and
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