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| food diet to lose weight, even if he or she is physically active. Add the sedentary lifestyle that accompanies the pain of arthritis and it's almost impossible. But when someone with an inflammatory disease makes significant dietary changes, both excess weight and joint pain can disappear. |
| In his early 20th century studies of primitive cultures, dentist-anthropologist Weston Price found whole cultures that not only had no tooth decay, misshapen dental arches or crowded teeth, they had no 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 arthritis and other inflammatory diseases ate whole, unrefined, unprocessed food, 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: all kinds of seeds, nuts, fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, eggs, roots, tubersanything and everything that's edible. |
| Most Americans, on the other hand, eat the same things every day. We may think we're eating a variety of foods but in most cases it's just different combinations of refined wheat, eggs, milk, potatoes and beef. Our meals are typically devoid of fruits and vegetables, low in enzymes, fiber and nutrients, high in fat, calories and toxins and as likely to generate modern illnesses |
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