It is equally heart-breaking when you see photos of what happens when "traditional" foods are replaced with modern foods. New regulations required that white flour be “enriched” with nutrients, including thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, and iron. He saw that they had excellent teeth but, more than that, they enjoyed outstanding general health and vigour, and soon he was travelling the globe cataloguing indigenous people's diets and comparing the health of those who had maintained their ancestral diet and those who had starting consuming modern Western foods.

I think that’s one of the things that I found so striking about the book, was that these people just seemed happier, and in fact many societies had no known cases of suicide until they had Western foods and got toothache – toothache could actually lead to suicide.Although not a fast-paced or exciting read, it contains wisdom that is crucial to the health and survival of the human race.

It’s quite depressing that this book was written so long ago, and obviously you see these organisations that make a lot of money out of food and medication, and the whole way that society is laid out, and they seem to have become more powerful and stronger, and people seem to be more submissive and more happy to give their health and wellbeing away, that’s quite sad. White flour was little more than highly refined carbs, which rapidly enter the bloodstream — empty calories. not an MD) wrote this in 1939 after studying the effects of various diets on isolated, primitive peoples. It is not surprising his work is not taught to dentists training now as the pharma industry control our ill health. Sidney Mintz told an amusing story about her meeting with a German gentleman, who was deeply impressed when her smile revealed a mouthful of black teeth.

The main reason that the primitive people can keep their teeth in such a splendid form is the food they are eating is rich in all sorts of vitamins and minerals. Previously, grain had been milled between stones, which ground together all parts of the wheat berry, resulting in whole wheat flour.

It was not completely unprocessed, so they may be eating, for example, rye products, but they were being made to use, rather than highly processed goods. p 285) “If we are to provide nutrition that will include an adequate excess as a factor of safety for overloads, and for such periods as those of rapid growth (for children), pregnancy, lactation and sickness, we must provide the excess to the extent of about twice the requirements of normal adults.

This review is transcribed from my full video review which you can find on YouTube here: https://youtu.

And obviously you only need to go to your local supermarket to see that these foods are EVERYWHERE, absolutely everywhere. In a photo of two groups, black and white, from Thursday Island, the natives have “beautifully proportioned faces” and broad dental arches (not that I know what dental arches are), while the whites have “pinched nostrils and marked disturbance in proportions of the faces” and crowded teeth (poor diet apparently deforms not only teeth but faces).In addition, it also gives a glimpse into the wisdom of the primitives and show us a little how we can live in such a way that we can get many of the same benefits that they received. In addition to tooth decay, their dental arches were deformed, so their teeth were crowded and crooked (like mine). He goes on to document what happens when these healthy communities are introduced to modern foods and the results are tragic.