Paul Getty: >Here's something else about Weston Price. While Weston Price at least has >the advantage of living many years ago without knowledge that we now have, >the author of this has no excuse and is just ignorant! Very much enjoyed your posts on Weston Price. None of which were very damning IMO--in large part because you can hardly hold him responsible for what extremists devise "in his name". (Using Price as a "reference" hardly makes Price "guilty" of the extremists' views.) The book speaks for itself in many ways and has no quackery to speak of. None of the research was up to modern standards of course, but this was decades ago. Unless someone could show me that the photos and/or stats reported in that book were falsified, I would maintain my opinion that it is a very interesting work, and probably Important. His findings are supported in general by the bulk of modern anthropology findings. BTW, malnourished people have few cavities, eh? Any support for that notion? I guess it depends on whether one considers the missionary Brits of the first half of the century (eating refined foods) well-nourished. The bit about "he ignored their short life expectancy and high rates of infant mortality, endemic diseases, and malnutrition" --I've seen little argument that "primitives" were/are generally malnourished and lots that they are much freer than modern folks of the "diseases of civilization" which would probably include much of our cultures endemic dental troubles. The relationship between infant mortality and life expectancy is obvious, and I suspect that in the battle of disease, agricultural and industrial cultures fare worse than hunter/gatherers. Have you ever encountered the book personally? I would be very curious as to your personal impressions... Cheers, Kirt Secola /\ Nieft [log in to unmask]