Aborigines of Australia
Aborigines of Australia
Dr. Price visited Australia in 1936. He discovered that the average rate of tooth decay among Australia's native Aborigines was zero percent, which means that they had total immunity to tooth decay. In contrast, he found that the average decay rate of all teeth of modern Aborigines, living on reservations and eating modern foods, was 70.9 per cent.a
His poetic words paint an important picture:
It is doubtful if many places in the world can demonstrate so great a contrast in physical development and perfection of body as that which exists between the primitive Aborigines of Australia who have been the sole arbiters of their fate, and those Aborigines who have been under the influence of the white man. The white man has deprived them of their original habitats and is now feeding them in reservations while using them as laborers in modern industrial pursuits.
I have seldom, if ever, found whites suffering so tragically from evidence of physical degeneration, as expressed in tooth decay and change in facial form, as are the whites of eastern Australia. This has occurred on the very best of the land that these primitives formerly occupied and becomes at once a monument to the wisdom of the primitive Aborigines and a signboard of warning to the modern civilization that has supplanted them.25 (Emphasis added.)
Dr. Price explained the importance of nutritious food to our overall health. He observed that the Australian Aborigines, who for thousands of years maintained near-perfect physical forms, have lost their ideal beauty and health with the foods of modernized society.
Those individuals, however, who had adopted the foodsof the white man, suffered extremely from tooth decay as the whites did. Where they had no opportunity to get native food to combine with the white man's food their condition was desperate and extreme.
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Wherever the primitive Aborigines have been placed in reservations and fed on the white man's foods of commerce dental caries has become rampant. This destroys their beauty, prevents mastication, and provides infection for seriously injuring their bodies. Note the contrast between the primitive woman in the upper right and the three modernized women.26 (Original caption.)
[Referring to the figure] Note the contrast with the upper right. It is quite impossible to imagine the suffering that these people were compelled to endure due to abscessing teeth resulting from rampant tooth decay. As we had found in some of the modernized islands of the Pacific, we discovered that here, too, discouragement and a longing for death had taken the place of a joy in living in many. Few souls in the world have experienced this discouragement and this longing to a greater degree. 27 (Emphasis added.)
Diet of Native Aborigines
The Aboriginal diet was a hunter-gatherer diet.
For plant foods they used roots, stems, leaves, berries and seeds of grasses and a native pea eaten with tissues of large and small animals. The large animals available are the kangaroo and wallaby. Among the small animals they have a variety of rodents, insects, beetles and grubs, and wherever available various forms of animal life from the rivers and oceans. Birds and birds' eggs are used where available.28
Modernized Aboriginal Diet
The modernized diet of the Australian Aborigines was very similar to the other modernized diets listed in this book. Imported foods included sugar, flour, packaged milk, tea leaves, and meat in tins.29
A dire warning from Dr. Price:
It should be a matter not only of concern but deep alarm that human beings can degenerate physically so rapidly by the use of a certain type of nutrition, particularly the dietary products used so generally by modern civilization.30
Nutritive Values of Diets Compared
Weston Price performed nutrient analyses of the foods eaten by many of the isolated and modernized groups he studied. In the case of the Swiss, he found that the isolated Swiss diet contained 10 times more fat-soluble vitamins and activators, 4 times more calcium, and 3.7 times more phosphorus than the modern diet. The isolated Gaelics ate 10 times more fat-soluble vitamins, 2.1 times more calcium, and 2.3 times more phosphorus than their modernized counterparts, who lived sometimes just a few miles away. The Aborigines of Australia lived along the eastern coast where they had ample access to seafood. Compared to the modernized food, their native diet contained 4.6 times the calcium, 6.2 times the phosphorus and ten times the amount of fat-soluble vitamins.31
The Dramatic Difference in Dietary Nutrients Discovered by Dr. Price.
Dr. Price determined that tooth decay in modern civilization is due to a lack of nutrients in our modern diet. Therefore Dr. Price concluded that tooth decay was not genetic but that:
Tooth decay is not only unnecessary, but an indication of our divergence from Nature's fundamental laws of life and health.32
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Dairy products from grassfed animals.
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Organs and head meat from fish and shellfish.
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Organs of land animals.
Fat-soluble Vitamins and Activators
The components most lacking in our modern diet are the fat-soluble vitamins, particularly those found in animal fats. By restoring the fat-soluble vitamins to our diets, we will regain our health and immunity to cavities. Fat-soluble vitamins are vitamins A, D, E, and K and they are found in fat. Fat-soluble vitamins are essential for our physical health, not just because they provide nutrients to the body, but precisely because they are activating substances that help our bodies utilize the minerals present in our diets.
Dr. Price found that the indigenous groups, which had the highest immunity to tooth decay, ate daily from at least two of the three following principal fat-soluble vitamin sources:
In a rarely reviewed 1936 article from the Journal of the American Dental Association, Dr. Price reveals this little known secret for 100% immunity to tooth decay.
On the basis of the fat-soluble activators or vitamin content of the foods used, I found that those groups using at least two of the three principal vitamin sources had the highest immunity to dental caries. Those using the lowest amount of fat-soluble activators had the greatest amount of dental caries. On this basis, namely, the fat-soluble activator content of the diet, those groups using the fat-soluble activators in liberal quantity had not more than 0.5 per cent of the teeth attacked by dental caries; while those using fat-soluble activators less liberally had up to 12 per cent of the teeth attacked by dental caries. All groups having a liberal supply of minerals particularly phosphorus, and a liberal supply of fat-soluble activators, had 100 per cent immunity to dental caries.33
I specifically bring in the Journal of the American Dental Association ( ADA) quote because I believe that the public needs to know that what is promoted by the ADA such as the acid / bacterial theory of cavities and what is taught in dental schools is contrary to material published in its own journal. I want to criticize the ADA for ignoring earlier research published in its own journal, by its own former head of research, Dr. Price. Because the ADA masks this critical information about insuring immunity to tooth decay through diet, hundreds of millions of people have developed cavities that could have been prevented.
Eggs also count as a special source of fat-soluble vitamins. Most store-bought eggs, however, come from chickens that are solely grain fed, even organic ones. Eggs from grain-fed chickens do not possess enough vitamins and nutrients to merit consideration as a food capable of preventing tooth decay. It is precisely due to the lack of fat-soluble vitamins and activators in the vegan diet that makes it difficult for vegans over time to remain immune to cavities and the effects of physical degeneration.
Insects could be added as a fourth category but this source of nutrition is not heavily utilized in our culture. The “yuck” factor seems to be our biggest obstacle to taking advantage of this category of food. On the other hand, my children love eating grasshoppers, so taste wise, insects can be excellent.
Why Tooth Decay with Modern Civilization?
Our modern diet rarely utilizes the special foods that isolated indigenous people ate, which made them immune to tooth decay. How often do you eat fish with the heads? Or how often do you eat liver, bone marrow, heart and blood curd? While we do use dairy products in our country, most are of inferior quality, and even can produce poor health due to factory farm practices.
A typical adult needs to eat approximately the following nutrients, daily, to be healthy:
Note: never use synthetic vitamins to obtain these nutrients; they are not effective.
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