Weston A. Price

Weston A. Price, D.D.S. (1870-1948) was an influential individual within the dental community of America. He was, in fact, the "chairman of the Research Section of the American Dental Association in 1914-1923", but was later marginalized by the American Dental Association for his outspoken views on the detriment of root canals.

Biography

In 1939, he published Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, a book that details a series of ethnographic nutritional studies performed by Price across diverse cultures.

Some of the cultures studied include the inhabitants of the Lötschental in Switzerland, the inhabitants of the Isles of Lewis and Harris in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland, the Eskimos of Alaska and Canada, the Native Americans, among the inhabitants of New Caledonia, Fiji, Samoa, the Marquesas Islands, Tahiti, Rarotonga, Nukualofa, Hawaii, the Masai, Kikuyu, Wakamba and Jalou tribes of Kenya, the Muhima of Uganda, the Baitu and Watusi of Rwanda, the Pygmies, and Wanande in the Congo, the Terrakeka, Dinka and Neurs of Sudan, the Aborigines of Australia, the inhabitants of the Torres Strait, the Māori of New Zealand, the Tauhuanocans, Quechua, "Andes Indians", "Sierra Indians" and "Jungle Indians" of Peru.

In his studies he found that plagues of modern civilization (headaches, general muscle fatigue, dental caries (cavities), impacted molars, tooth crowding, allergies, heart disease, asthma, and degenerative diseases such as tuberculosis and cancer) were not present in those cultures sustained by indigenous diets. However, within a single generation these same cultures experienced all the above listed ailments no sooner than the inclusion of Western foods in their diet: refined sugars, refined flours, canned goods, etc.

The Weston A. Price Foundation was founded in 1999 to disseminate the research of Dr. Weston A. Price.

Works by Weston Price

• Weston Andrew Price, Forewords by Earnest Hooton, Granville Knight, and Abram Hoffer (2004). Nutrition and Physical Degeneration (6th edition ed.). Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation. ISBN 0916764087. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Dental Infections, Oral and Systemic & the Degenerative Diseases, Vol. 1 & 2

Further reading

George Meinig, DDS, FACD, has written a book summarizing Dr. Price's exhaustive research into the complications that root canals can cause, in order to make it accessible to the lay reader.

• George E. Meinig ((January 1994)). Root Canal Cover-Up (2nd rev. edition ed.). Bion Pub. Ojai, CA. ISBN 0945196199. {{cite book}}: |edition= has extra text (help); Check date values in: |year= (help)

External links

• The Weston A Price Foundation
• Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation
• Review of Weston A. Price's book "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration"
• In depth review of Weston A. Price's book "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration"