Food Facts

Miscellaneous bundle of interesting stuff

Why Organic?
Quality vs Quantity

In 1914 one apple provided 1/2 t

dose of Iron,
Today it provides 1/50
 Study of Dr.
Weston Price

Diets and nutrition of various cultures and

their effect on dental hygiene
He believed diet was the main cause of
tooth decay
 Facts

• Avg Eskimo carried 50kgs in each hand and another 50kgs in

their teeth easily.
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• They never got sick! Their tribes never evolved medicine

men

• Masai men first go and check the bushes for hiding Lions
before letting their cattle graze

• Australian Aborigines were extremely fit and had sense of

sight that could see moving animals at over 2kms of distance
 Findings

• They contained, on average, 4 times the calcium and

important minerals and 10 times the fat soluble vitamins as the
modern Western diet.
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• Today’s diets provide too much energy and not enough

nutrition

• The strongest and healthiest peoples were those who used the
correct animal and seafood products as a very important
(sacred) part of their diet.
Sugar
Book reference: Sugar Blues b