Childbearing in primitive cultures is prepared for months in advance; the result is that it is often a quick and simple event, contrasted to the arduous, lengthy experience of many women in Western societies.

In his travels, which included hundreds of cities in 14 different countries, he visited some of the most remote areas of the world. It is pretty depressing really that here we are nearly a hundred years later and where have things gone, what direction have they gone in?

They got enough nutrition in their foods that the saliva composition protected their teeth without brushing or modern methods of cleaning teeth. This review is transcribed from my full video review which you can find on YouTube here: https://youtu. He observed perfect dental arches, minimal tooth decay, high immunity to tuberculosis and overall excellent health in those groups of people who ate their indigenous foods. So for the Eskimos of Alaska their native diet is liberal use of organs and other special tissues of large animal life of the sea as well as fish, and all the things they do to them to preserve them for the Winter.

Sidney Mintz told an amusing story about her meeting with a German gentleman, who was deeply impressed when her smile revealed a mouthful of black teeth. It’s not just about teeth, it’s not just about diet, it’s about our whole health and even how our societies are laid out. He goes on to document what happens when these healthy communities are introduced to modern foods and the results are tragic.NUTRITION AND PHYSICAL DEGENERATION is the basic foundation for the Traditional Foods Movement and also the Paleo Movement. Over and over again he found that no matter what the race, the isolated people who were eating their traditional nutrient-dense foods had excellent dental and overall health, whereas members of the same race who instead ate processed foods had poor dental and overall heath.