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Nutrition and Physical Degeneration

Weston A. Price · 1938

An anthropological study arguing that modern dental and physical degeneration stems from the abandonment of traditional diets.

Michael Hobbes critiques its argument that non-industrialized diets are superior as laughably false.

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“He's a dentist from Cleveland who authored a book called Nutrition and Physical Degeneration that was published in 1939. Price traveled to more than a dozen countries to observe the health and diets of different societies.”

Why: The speaker critiques the book's argument that non-industrialized diets are superior as laughably false.

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