Who is Weston Price?

Virtually no one has ever heard of Weston Price, yet he wrote the most important book of the 20th century on the subject of nutrition.

That book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, was published in 1939. Based on Price's travels over a decade, it documents the diets of 14 traditional cultures from the North Pole to the South Seas. These native groups had yet to be touched by modern, industrial culture. Hence they offered, collectively, a window into what people had been eating - naturally - for millennia. (Put another way, it demonstrated what people ate to best insure their survival.)

Price found two common factors in these populations: robust good health and diets largely based on animal foods sourced from the wild. (The latter, in fact, were considered sacred by all these groups and became the objects of ritual and lore.)

Today, western societies exhibit the precise opposite of what Price observed - namely poor health and diets notably lacking in high quality animal fats. So, it is no wonder that we suffer from a range of diseases - cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, immune system dysfunction - that were scarcely known, even in urban populations, a century ago.

In 25 years Weston Price will be much better known than he is today because the collective conscious is aware of one thing at its base - its own survival. As we continue to diminish the quality of our lives and kill ourselves prematurely by eating a low quality diet the survival instinct will slowly kick in; self interest will take over.

At that point, more people will know who Weston Price is and appreciate his contribution to the subject of nutrition. They, too, will understand that what he saw, documented, and championed will make perfect sense.