The Primal Diet is a response/cure to a toxic society, whereas the details stated in this post are referring to people living under much less of a toxic burden. Context matters greatly in terms of health, remember this.

Weston A. Price

• Weston A. Price was a Canadian dentist who noticed that other parts of the world were almost entirely exempt from the diseases that plagued the west. He had then set out on an expedition across the globe to study why this was.

• He visited several non-industrialized populations that still lived in a very similar way to their ancestors, (Swiss villagers, Eskimos, Australian Aborigines, and more) and he noticed a few details of their lives that they all had in common.

1. Obviously, they ate a diet absent of processed foods.

2. Their diets focused on nutrient density, containing, on average, 4 times the minerals and water soluble vitamins, and 10 times the fat soluble vitamins compared the average American in the 1930s.

3. They had a large portion of raw animal products, ubiquitously, although some more and some less.

4. All plant foods consumed were prepared using proper methods of enhancing nutrient digestibility. (soaking, fermenting, sprouting)

5. Their diets consisted largely of fat. Fat consisted of a minimum of 30% to a maximum of 80% of 'calories'

Most importantly:

• They all exhibited excellent health and robusticity, no cavities, and no notable incidence of chronic disease or cancer.

• They were absent of nearly all disease simply by living naturally and in accordance with their traditional and ancestral diets.

Well obviously it has to be their genes, right?

• Wrong. Weston A. Price conducted follow-up observations of the same ethnic groups, but living a different lifestyle, namely completely different nutrition.

• After adopting 'white man' food and lifestyle, the same ethnic groups that were thriving not so long ago, began to physically deteriorate. Their teeth decayed, their palatal arches narrowed, and they were overrun with tuberculosis.

• They degenerated very quickly, proving how toxic the unnatural lifestyle of a westerner really was.

Our True Natural Diet

• A great resource to describe our natural diet is the Weston A. Price Foundation at westonapricefoundation.org I will shorten and abridge their 11 dietary principles described in the site, as these are said to be the practices the tribes enacted. I'll put the most important values at the top, according to my opinion.

• There is a large emphasis of nutrient dense raw animal foods, notably seafood and organs. This provides you with an abundance of every nutrient needed for proper development. This should be prioritized first for people who are pregnant or planning to be. They also promote cooking some animal foods, although they don't seem to have a proper reason why. Perhaps cooking more gelatinous, harder to eat cuts of meat would yield a benefit by denaturing the collagen, while softer cuts of meat and organs would be eaten raw.

• Have a balance of land food and seafood to balance omega-3s and omega-6s. For more information on omega-3s, check out my post here to learn more about it.

• Raw saturated fats are highly important compared to polyunsaturated fats

• Ferment some foods for a bacteria source that helps your digestion and gives you high levels of B vitamins and vitamin K2.

• Make bone broth for an excellent mineral profile and collagen rich soup.

• Seeds and plants, if consumed should generally be properly prepared in order to neutralize the toxins and antinutrients.

• They claim that salt should be consumed, but I disagree as their explanation was largely about culture and they equated drinking blood with using salt.

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The observational studies conducted by Weston A. Price are a convincing testament to the ideas of the Raw Primal diet. The modern lifestyle that is taking place nowadays is perpetuating unnecessary harm to the public's health. You must do the opposite. Thank you and have a great health journey, my friends.