Weston A. Price anecdotes

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Weston A. Price died before I was born, but he was a contemporary of my grandfather who died twenty years after Price. They were both dentists in Cleveland, Ohio, and since my father was also a dentist, "Weston A. Price" was a household name as I was growing up. Everytime I asked for candy, Dad and Grandpa would both cite Price's observation that native peoples had unusually good teeth, given the lack of sugar in their diets. But even before Price made his tour of the world's primitive cultures, it was well known that good teeth were usually found in malnourished populations. No refined sugar, no cavities. Disease, early death, fleas and tics, but no cavities. Unfortunately, Price was just a dentist, not a scientist...and not a particularly good dentist according to my grandfather, who claimed to have picked up most of Price's clients after Price went AWOL.

I do hope anybody out there who has visited the Weston A. Price Foundation website will also checkout the Price-Pottinger site (http://www.price-pottenger.org/) which promotes current fads regarding health and nutrition. You'll even find the famous Betty i aspartame email there. Price-Pottinger is a goldmine of dubious science. If you're someone who easily believes in things you know are not true, proceed skeptically.

Suz