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While our history is brimming with great minds, I will tell you just a little bit about the achievement of three men. All three have left a large legacy, yet what each is most famous for combines into a triune function that shines a bright light at the end of the nutritional maze.

I encourage you to read their works, and must warn you that a simple search on them is as likely to bring up the “quackwatch” as actual facts. As always, bring your own sound judgement and lots of grains of salt to any research adventure. If most people understood the importance of the truths these men spoke of, whole industries would have toppled, and that is not an exaggeration. Therefore, powerful interests really don’t want you to see that light at the end of the maze.

Weston Price (1870-1948) was a dentist who travelled the world in search of people with healthy teeth and skeletal structure. He found them in all the places where western civilization had not yet touched the way of life.

Even though the diets of the native peoples varied greatly due to their geographical location, they all had something in common - they ate nutrient dense foods, and the higher the vitamin and fat content, the more prized the food was. This was, of course, instinctual knowledge and wisdom, since they did not study their foods.

The health and the physical structure of people eating traditional living foods revealed that they had reached their genetic potential. They were well developed with strong and correct skeletal structure, wide cheekbones and jaws that fully accommodated all the teeth, and the difference between male and female structure was clear and noticeable.

However, as soon as a traditional society had access to refined foods, the skeletal structure began to deteriorate, the teeth developed caries, the faces and jaws became narrow, the birthing more difficult, the difference between males and females less pronounced, and the difference between siblings more pronounced.

Sadly, mental and moral deterioration parallels the physical, and even US President Hoover said in 1955 that people who are starved (whether literally or malnourished) become the parents of the world’s bandits and gangsters.

Look around you, at your family, at the people walking on the street, at the mirror - look at kids who are our future - what do you see? I see kids wearing braces because their jaws are too narrow, being put on drugs to help them focus. I see boys with narrow shoulders, and girls with narrow hips who, if not sterile, will probably be scheduling C-sections, because giving birth will be too difficult. I also see commercials that claim that fluoride will help protect our teeth from cavities, and I can almost hear the starved brains poisoned with fluoride crying for nourishment.

Weston Price’s observations are carefully documented and supplied with plenty of photographs in his book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.

Francis Pottenger, Jr. (1901-1967) proved through experiments what Weston Price observed. He conducted an unprecedented ten year study involving nine hundred cats. This was a controlled feeding experiment to determine the effects of raw, species-appropriate foods versus cooked foods on the health of the cats.

He compared their growth, skeletal development, facial and dental structures, resistance to disease, reproductive ability, viability of the offspring, calcium and phosphorus content of their femurs at death, their behavior, etc.

The exact same problems that Weston Price documented in human populations eating refined, devitalized foods, manifested in cats eating cooked foods. While different species have different dietary needs, if we simply define malnutrition as “missing that which the species needs,” then we can conclude that we all seem to respond to improper foods in a very similar way.

Pottenger did not make a direct comparison between cats and humans, but he did say this: “While no attempt will be made to correlate the changes in the animals studied with malformations found in humans, the similarity is so obvious that parallel pictures will suggest themselves.” The cat study and more is documented in his book, Pottenger’s Cats: A Study In Nutrition.

Royal Lee (1895-1967) is known as the founder of Standard Process, a nutritional company. He was an electronic inventor holding numerous patents, a dentist, and a nutritional genius. We saw how Weston Price provided observations and Francis Pottenger, Jr. provided proof of the effect of malnutrition on all aspects of health. Royal Lee provided solutions.

He found the way to make supplements by concentrating food sources without breaking down their living structure. As you read the rest of this book, you will come to appreciate just how important that is, and what a visionary Royal Lee was in his time. He originally designed not just the supplements, but also the equipment on which they were to be made.

The FDA prosecuted Lee mercilessly - he was forbidden from stating that enzymes help digestion, while tobacco companies were allowed to run ads advertising cigarettes as beneficial for digestion. Yes, this is the same FDA that still decides what is safe for us to consume and what is not!