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| even cure heart disease after it has caused serious problems and invasive measures have been taken, including medical procedures such as drugs and surgery. |
| Here are some effective strategies. |
| Nutrition |
| In 1893, Weston Price began half a century of medical anthropological research. Price visited and studied cultures in which people eating a "modern" diet lived near those who ate only traditional foods in locations as varied as remote parts of Canada, the United States, Australia, eastern and central Africa, the South Pacific, alpine valleys in Switzerland, the Outer Hebrides, New Zealand and Peru. Wherever possible, he studied skeletal remains of past generations as well. |
| Price found whole cultures that had no tooth decay, heart disease, cancer, tuberculosis, arthritis, rheumatism, diabetes or other chronic ailments. Yet when these same natives adopted the white flour, white sugar, refined salt and oils of modern civilization, their health decayed along with their teeth. |
| The native people who remained free of heart disease and other illnesses ate whole, unrefined, unprocessed foods, much of it raw, from a variety of sources. This is in keeping with what we know about the evolution of human digestion. Human beings are omnivores. Our bodies are designed to consume and digest just about everything: a variety of seeds, nuts, fruits, vegetables, all kinds of animals and eggs; in short, anything and everything that's edible. |
| Most Americans, on the other hand, eat the same |
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