NON-PAINFUL DISEASES
traveled the world over in search of good teeth. Anywhere and
anytime he found them, he described the people who had them.
This is excellent science. It lets you draw the conclusions. He
described what he saw in a book, titled Nutrition and Physical
Degeneration.^13 They came to these conclusions from the fol-
lowing observable facts:
- Skulls of primitive peoples who lived along coastlines,
such as Peruvians, Scandinavians and various islanders,
and whose staple foods included fish daily, showed perfect
teeth; not a single cavity in a lifetime. They had strong
bones that didn't break even once in a lifetime of 45 years.
Skeletal structure was fully developed, meaning the jaw
bone was not undershot or cheek bones squeezed together,
forcing the teeth to grow into a smaller than ideal space.
Consequently, there was room for the wisdom teeth, and no
need to crowd the remainder. They saw no crooked teeth or
unerupted wisdom teeth. The authors estimated a daily
consumption of 4 to 5 grams of calcium in their fish
containing diet.
Our daily consumption of less than 1 gram calcium daily is
small by comparison. Our wisdom teeth erupt poorly, our other
teeth are often crooked. But today bad teeth go shamefully un-
heeded because we don't need to chew our food, we can lap it
(ice cream) or suck it, or gum it (applesauce). - These primitive peoples got all the calcium, magnesium,
phosphate, boron and other bone builders they needed
simply from eating (fish) bones. Mexican peoples got 4 to
6 grams of calcium a day from stone-grinding of corn for
their staple, tortillas, instead of from fish.
(^13) It is still available from the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation, a
non-profit organization that seeks to keep his observations alive. Their
address is PO Box 2614, La Mesa, California 91943, (800) 366-3748.