"If Weston Price is a guru in the field of nutrition, then we could not select a better guide. He wrote a book entitled "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration". It is about actual scientific obervations of the physical condition of various groups of people and it relates their physical condition directly to their nutrition. If you are considering learning about nutrition, this is information that one must have. So, Weston Price is a guru. As he should be."
I read the book sometime ago, long before you I dare say. Price is dead, he didn't start the cult which has raised him to the status of a saint, but he serves their agenda nonetheless. His is an intresting work but uneven in it's quality and certainly nothing on which even a small part of the science of nutrition could be supported. But a cult needs a guru and like other lifestyle cults involving food, they are hardly a summit of science to which to aspire. The cult ignores, perhaps even being ignorant of, the great deal of cross cultural nutritional work done during and after the time of price which supercedes it in every respect and in some contridicts his informal observations ,with scientific data collection. His methods were spotty and even crude at times. The best of it is that he was best positioned to observe that adding considerable amounts of sugar to one's diet causes tooth decay, he being a dentist.
"If Weston Price is a guru in the field of nutrition, then we could not select a better guide. He wrote a book entitled "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration". It is about actual scientific obervations of the physical condition of various groups of people and it relates their physical condition directly to their nutrition. If you are considering learning about nutrition, this is information that one must have. So, Weston Price is a guru. As he should be."
I read the book sometime ago, long before you I dare say. Price is dead, he didn't start the cult which has raised him to the status of a saint, but he serves their agenda nonetheless. His is an intresting work but uneven in it's quality and certainly nothing on which even a small part of the science of nutrition could be supported. But a cult needs a guru and like other lifestyle cults involving food, they are hardly a summit of science to which to aspire. The cult ignores, perhaps even being ignorant of, the great deal of cross cultural nutritional work done during and after the time of price which supercedes it in every respect and in some contridicts his informal observations ,with scientific data collection. His methods were spotty and even crude at times. The best of it is that he was best positioned to observe that adding considerable amounts of sugar to one's diet causes tooth decay, he being a dentist.
Sounds like you prefer another set of gurus. Perhaps the mystic eastern touchy-feely save-the-trees and spare-the-poor-animals cult? Good for you. Just don't try to pass it off as somehow nutritionally or scientifically sound.
