Sentences with phrase «isolated native diets»

Price developed his philosophy from intensive scientific studies of the diets of various populations all over the world, including and featuring many isolated native diets, and the corresponding health of the people.

Not exact matches

«From the chemical standpoint,» the critical difference between «efficient» native diets and diets characterized by the «displacing foods of modern commerce,» according to Dr. Price, was that «all the efficient dietaries were found to contain two to six times as high a factor of safety in the matter of bodybuilding material, as the displacing foods» (emphasis added).11 The foods that served a «bodybuilding» purpose varied substantially according to the group and location studied, but in all instances, traditional societies emphasized the most nutrient - dense land and sea animal and plant foods that could be obtained in their context, ranging from the exceptionally high - vitamin dairy products, whole rye sourdough bread and occasional meat of the isolated Swiss to the fish, cereals and sweet potatoes of Kenya's Maragoli tribe.

When Dr. Weston Price studied native diets in the 1930's he found that butter was a staple in the diets of many supremely healthy peoples.1 Isolated Swiss villagers placed a bowl of butter on their church altars, set a wick in it, and let it burn throughout the year as a sign of divinity in the butter.

When Dr. Weston Price studied isolated traditional peoples around the world, he found that butter was a staple in many native diets.

Throughout his studies of isolated populations on native diets, Price was continually struck by the contrast of native sturdiness and good health with the degeneration found in the local white populace, living off the «displacing foods of modern commerce» such as sugar, white flour, canned foods and condensed milk.