I've checked online numerous times in the past and I've, unfortunately,  
never found an objective site re Weston-Price's findings. They're all 
biased, being either fanatically for or fanatically against him. While 
there's no reliable independent analysis of his findings re diet there are 
some websites which claim that his past research on  his "focal 
infection"(re root-canal therapy)  theory has  been disproved by later 
research. Here's an admittedly heavily biased website which goes into this 
in detail:-
http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/holisticdent.html

(of course the article's  reference to the root-canal therapy research has 
no relevance whatsoever to Weston-Price's findings re diet, I just include 
it because there's nothing else).

Weston-Price's colleague Dr Pottenger also did a famous  well-controlled 
scientific experiment in the 1930s with cats, to prove that a raw food diet 
was better for humans - there's plenty of data re this online. The 
scientific establishment view the study as flawed as, once taurine  was 
introduced into processed pet-food, the most serious(but not all) of the 
health-problems in cats fed on  processed food, went away. Of course, the 
establishment tends to ignore the multitude of accounts from pet-owners that 
raw, unprocessed food is much healthier for their animals.

I find that, while the Pottenger experiment was definitely above board, that 
there was  a slight flaw in it. Dr Pottenger fed his cats on the raw regime 
with plenty of raw cows' milk, and the latter is hardly something that would 
be part of the diet of cats in the wild. It would have been better if he'd 
done a controlled study with some cats fed only meats/organ-meats, some fed 
only on raw cows' milk and some fed only on processed pet-food.

Anyway, given the definite lack of reliable analysis of Weston-Price's work, 
I tend  to only trust in Weston-Price's work when his findings are more or 
less in agreement with the far more numerous and more comprehensive  studies 
done on the health and diet of Palaeolithic-era humans(though, of course, 
Palaeo studies also have their flaws in some areas) - certainly, his 
advocation of Neolithic-era foods such as raw dairy, salt and fermented 
grain is highly  dubious, given the extensive scientific data available re 
the sudden collapse in human health in the Neolithic period.


Geoff

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