Our primary goal in seeking food is to supply warmth and energy to the body. Primitive people naturally sought out food high in essential vitamin and mineral content and lead active lives.
The lifestyle of modern food seekers compared to the primitives shows a more sedentary pattern that leads individuals to seek food that only satisfies hunger causing depleted amounts of essential vitamin and mineral content needed for healthy body building and repair.
Minerals and Fat-soluble Activators are Necessary For Body Maintenance
The Swiss Loetschental Valley villagers ate a diet of rye bread, dairy products, meat once a week and fresh summer vegetables also stored for supply in the winter.
The Seafaring people of the Outer Hebrides diet consisted of Fresh and salt water fish, oat products and green foods in summer and stored for the winter. They focused on eating the fish livers as a staple in their diet.
The Eskimos and Alaska Natives diet consisted of animal sea life including fish with focus on eating the organs and eggs. Inner skin of the whale was highly regarded and showed content high in vitamin C. Cranberries, ground nuts and water plants and bulbs supplemented their diets.
The Native Americans diet mainly consisted of moose and caribou with the main focus in eating the organs. Bark and buds of trees were often used as well. Bone marrow was especially important in the nutrition of growing children and served as a supplement for milk.
The Island dwellers in the South Pacific ate liberal amounts of shellfish with plant roots and fruits; raw and cooked. The taro root was highly prized as well as coconut oil.
The African tribal diet consisted of sweet potatoes, beans and cereals. Coastal tribes ate fish liberally. The inland dwellers domesticated goats or cattle for meat and dairy use. Insects such as ants and locusts were highly prized and made into pies and puddings.
The Australian Aborigine’s diet consisted of wild plants and wild animals. Kangaroo, small animals and rodents were eaten with main focus on the internal organs. Those living by the sea ate from it liberally.
The Maori of New Zealand ate liberal bounty of the sea the lobster was especially sought out. The mutton bird was highly prized for its juicy flesh high in fat. Not only did the nutritional quality of this bird help in treat tuberculosis, they helped enrich the fertile content of the soil making the natural growth of vegetables and fruits in the wild grow with ease.
The Northern Australian Native’s diet was high in shellfish. This area was known for extremely large shellfish and many of the empty shells could be used for washtubs or water storage. The Great Barrier Reef supplies bountiful varieties of fish. Dugong, a sea cow was also highly prized by the natives.
The highland Peruvians diet consisted of llama and guinea pig; potatoes were often ground to powder form and added to stews. Animal organs were also sought after and dried fish eggs were a necessary staple. Green plant foods such as kelp were sought out for supplementing their meals.
Notice the common factor of food throughout this world study was of animal origin and contained high fat-soluble activators.
Nature’s Cure Supports Body Chemistry
Dr. Price noted the common habit of eating fish eggs and the organs of the animals across his world wide study. Animal organs contain high Vitamin D content. Another common ingredient was clay balls that could be dissolved in water to prevent a sick stomach or dysentery.
Dr. Price experienced the healing qualities of this clay prescription when he fell ill to dysentery while in Africa. This clay contained trace organic material called kaolin. It is interesting to note the recent introduction of “kaolin into modern medicine as a protective agent for the gastric and intestinal mucosa and as a remedy for bacterial infections of the gut.”
Natives in Canada also had a natural remedy for curing diabetes. In July 1938, the Canadian Medical Journal published an article about the remedies effective qualities. It is made by a hot water infusion of a root called devil’s-club, a prickly, spiny shrub. This could be taken by mouth or injection. (Insulin can not be taken by mouth because it is destroyed by the stomach acids and therefore must be injected.)
Modern Ailing Children Cured By Following Nature’s Food Law
During the great depression when food sources were scarce, a minister contacted Dr. Price with deep concern for an ailing child. The minister was asked by the mother to baptize the dying child who frequently experienced convulsions had a bronchial cough, was badly emaciated, had rampant tooth decay and a broken leg that had not healed in three months. The convulsions were increasing in severity and occurrence. His diet consisted of white bread and skimmed milk.
Dr. Price immediately intervened with a prescribed diet of freshly ground wheat gruel, whole milk and a teaspoonful of very high vitamin butter with each meal. The first night the boy ate he had no convulsions and slept the entire night. He ate this meal five times a day, within a month his fracture healed and he experienced no convulsions. Six weeks after the boy was on the diet he was running and jumping over the mother’s garden wall.
Another ailing child with rampant tooth decay, heart disease, arthritis and rheumatic fever was given a no recovery diagnosis by the doctors at the hospital where the boy was bed bound.
Dr. Price intervened on behalf of the request of the mother and the child improved greatly. His constant crying from the extreme pain caused from the swelling in his joints ceased and not long after implementing Dr. Price’s diet he was sitting up in bed. Six months later he was standing on his own. Six years later the mother wrote Dr. Price to proudly state her boy was heavier and taller than the average and had a healthy appetite.
The common food factors one should look for in a proper diet that supports health and repairs the body are found in many of the foods the current food system declares unfit. Dr. Price was able to prove a primitive diet does aid in the healing of modern lifestyle’s food choices.
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Sources:
Price, Weston A. Chapter 15: Characteristics of Primitive and Modern Dietaries, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. A Project Gutenburg of Australia Ebook, 2002.
What’s Wrong With “Politically Correct” Nutrition? ABC’s of Nutrition, Weston A. Price Foundation, January 1, 2000. Accessed February 7, 2011.
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