This important article by Dr. Weston Price includes 16 graphs, posted at the end of this article, showing heart disease mortality compared to vitamin content in local butter samples. Working with poor photocopies, and lacking Price's raw data, we have been able to reproduce only rough copies of these fascinating graphs. Nevertheless, the reader will appreciated how precious is this research by Dr. Weston Price. His studies could not be reproduced today, partly because we no longer consume local foods and partly because most people no longer consume butter, but it indicates a fruitful avenue of research; namely, that levels of fat soluble vitamins in the diet correlate with rates of heart disease. We hope that the reprinting of this article will spur further research.
Just one example of how Weston Price was able to think outside the box and do such unique and significant studies that other people would never even consider. Facts like these make people who demonize butter and other dairy products or claim that they are "deficient" in some way seem absolutely foolish. This study is just one example of how high quality raw butter from grass fed cows with high levels of X factor and vitamins is an incredible source of nutrients and essential to human health.
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By Weston A. Price, DDS, MS, FACD.
This important article by Dr. Weston Price includes 16 graphs, posted at the end of this article, showing heart disease mortality compared to vitamin content in local butter samples. Working with poor photocopies, and lacking Price's raw data, we have been able to reproduce only rough copies of these fascinating graphs. Nevertheless, the reader will appreciated how precious is this research by Dr. Weston Price. His studies could not be reproduced today, partly because we no longer consume local foods and partly because most people no longer consume butter, but it indicates a fruitful avenue of research; namely, that levels of fat soluble vitamins in the diet correlate with rates of heart disease. We hope that the reprinting of this article will spur further research.
Just one example of how Weston Price was able to think outside the box and do such unique and significant studies that other people would never even consider. Facts like these make people who demonize butter and other dairy products or claim that they are "deficient" in some way seem absolutely foolish. This study is just one example of how high quality raw butter from grass fed cows with high levels of X factor and vitamins is an incredible source of nutrients and essential to human health.
Of course there are seasonal death rate differences, and many other things are seasonal too. The only and specific question the original poster was touting were the observations of an author who noted that milk content varies by season as does cardiac mortality, to which he attributed the milk content variation to the latter period. these other variables yhou now want to throw into the mix are interesting but no causation is demonstrated by correlation alone. The one big fat laden meal thing is known to me but does not support the thesis of the author in question. Milk varies by season as their food varies by season, not by variation in sunshine except as that determines plant activity. The author was attempting to show that if one doesn't get what varies in milk the risk of cvd mortality varies accordingly by season; and he failed to connect the dots only showing another correlation which is interesting but not causually connected in the least. We can spin all manner of seasonal correlations, more heart attacks and wearing more clothing, more heart attacks and eating less watermellon, more heart attack and preparing for christmas, less heart attack and preparing for easter and the list of uch is endless because heart attacks are seasonal and thus can be correlated with anything also seasonal.
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There is evidence that there is seasonal death rate and vitamin connection. Reduced cancer death rates and reduced fall rates in elderly have been related to higher levels of vitamin D. Low levels of vitamin D are associated with decreased beta cell function according to results of a study published in the May issue of the AJCN. That would tend to raise triglycerides which would in turn tend to result in blood vessels spasms resulting constriction of circulation, angina, infarction, and death..
Thus that which Mark De Toad declares to be silly.... can be true. It has been established one fatty meal can kill and person with CAD.
I provided a reference and the Toad provided rhetoric........... .........................William A. Noyes
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If I needed a dentist I would go to him. If I needed nutritional and risk analysis I would, and do, ignore him on this specific question. He graphed the seasonal levelof vitamins, sunshine, and heart disease mortality. Vitamin content of milk is only indrectly related to amount of sunshine, it is directly related to thekind and amount of plants the cow eats and this varies by season. Even assuming the obviious variation in vit levels, making a correlation to death rates is silly. Heart disease is a long term disorder which takes time to develope, it does not happen with regard to sub yearly conditions of what's in milk. Seasonal death rates are more likely related to overal stress upon the body from various causes,ie. cold stress for example, then it is because milk has a somewhat lower vit a content during cold seasons.
The question could be addressed today, such info about the content of milk is ho hum standard stuff of which any school of ag will provide upon request, along with the research showing what in the cow's diet is related to the milk content. Death rates by disease are available in many places, one could even do a location by location corellation in the places where content of milk and the cow's diet vary with climate at a level much more detailed and specific then what info the good doc price had available to him.
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By Weston A. Price, DDS, MS, FACD. >This important article by Dr. Weston Price includes 16 >graphs, posted at the end of this article, showing heart disease mortality compared to vitamin content in local butter samples. Working with poor photocopies, and lacking Price's raw data, we have been able to reproduce only rough copies of these fascinating graphs. Nevertheless, the reader will appreciated how precious is this research by Dr. Weston Price. His studies could not be reproduced today, partly because we no longer consume local foods and partly because most people no longer consume butter, but it indicates a fruitful avenue of research; namely, that levels of fat soluble vitamins in the diet correlate with rates of heart disease. We hope that the reprinting of this article will spur further research.
Just one example of how Weston Price was able to think outside the box and do such unique and significant studies that other people would never even consider. Facts like these make people who demonize butter and other dairy products or claim that they are "deficient" in some way seem absolutely foolish. This study is just one example of how high quality raw butter from grass fed cows with high levels of X factor and vitamins is an incredible source of nutrients and essential to human health.
