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🥩➡️🍞 What happened in Florida (and the rest of the world):
- Group 1: Several hundred skulls from Native American burial mounds
- Traditional diet, prior to modern food
- Group 2: Isolated tribes in the Everglades and Cypress Swamps
- Traditional diet, isolated from modern food
- Group 3: Those living in contact with modern civilization, near Miami
- Modern diet, flour, sugar, vegetable oils
He found the same pattern that he found across the world:
People who eat their traditional diet are largely free of dental decay, malocclusion, and have a high degree of oral and physical health.
But when these people move from their traditional diet to the "displacing foods of modern commerce" they get rampant decay, dental arch deformity and malocclusion, a narrowing and lengthening face with underdeveloped craniofacial bones, nasal sinuses, and resultant mouth breathing.
It's not just their oral health and craniofacial development that suffers though.
Dr. Price asked a Native American whose tribe subsisted on a diet of seafood, moose, and deer: "Why don't you get scurvy?"
"That's a white man's disease," he responded.
Dr. Price witnessed the rise of many diseases that resulted from the mismatch of our genome, forged over millions of years, with modern food inventions. It's discordance between our biology and our diet.
Dr. Romig was a surgeon in Alaska during the shift from traditional to modern diets. Before modern foods entered the diet, he "never saw a case of malignancy among primitives."
With the introduction of modern foods, he saw cancers rise and he had to perform new surgeries like gallbladder and appendix removals, kidney procedures, and C-section births.
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🥛 What's the forgotten supplement:
The modern diet struck Europeans before they brought these foods to the Native Americans.
During the Industrial Revolution there was a sudden rise in rickets, the loss of bone mineral density causing children's legs to bow under their own weight.
Scientists discovered these children lacked vitamin D and the cure was animal fat. Cod liver oil became a common preventative supplement, which seems to be all but forgotten today.
High quality raw milk would have helped prevent rickets too. But at this time people were moving into cities, and there was no refrigeration yet, so there was a lack of milk and/or it was poor quality due to "industrial dairy farms." This ultimately led to the advent of pasteurization.
My Raw Milk Experiment Update:
- Week 1: 0.5 gallon ✅
- Week 2: 1 gallon ✅
- Week 3: 1.5 gallons this week...
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🤯 How to think better:
Every day there are new problems to be solved and decisions to be made.
Whether we know it or not, we have default "mental maps" or frameworks for solving these problems and making decisions. The quality of these decisions determines the quality of our lives.
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😯 How to worry:
This is a dilemma I think about all the time.
To worry or to relax? To take life by the horns or to go with the flow? To have high expectations and stress, or low expectations and be happy? To strive or to accept? To push or allow?
Stress is one of those emotions I feel more frequently than I'd like.
On the one hand, I don't like it. On the other, I realize it keeps me moving in the direction I want to go, towards goals and dreams, it keeps things from slipping through the cracks, keeps bills paid, roof over the head, food on the table.
So, I worry about letting stress go. I worry about not worrying. LOL.
What to do?
Worry on a day-to-day basis, try to be better, try to take positive action in the world. Be the ocean's surface that is active in the world. Swim, ski, snorkel, sunbathe on this fun surface. But also, at the same time keep a level for yourself that is untouched by day-to-day worry. A level that the surface world can't get to. A level that knows that your worries are a trifle in the scheme of things. A level of the ocean deep.
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👵 How would you have lived life differently:
"If I had my life to live over again, I’d dare to make more mistakes next time. I’d relax. I’d limber up. I’d be sillier than I’ve been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously. I would take more chances...
I would, perhaps, have more actual troubles but fewer imaginary ones. You see, I’m one of those people who was sensible and sane, hour after hour, day after day.
Oh, I’ve had my moments. If I had to do it over again, I’d have more of them. In fact, I’d try to have nothing else—just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day.
I’ve been one of those persons who never goes anywhere without a thermometer, a hot-water bottle, a raincoat, and a parachute. If I could do it again, I would travel lighter than I have.
If I had to live my life over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances, I would ride more merry-go-rounds, I would pick more daisies."
– Nadine Stair
An 85-year-old woman's answer when asked,
"How would you have lived your life differently if you had a chance?"
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📈 Are you feeling the inflation:
This poll seems about right 😂
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As always, it's an absolute pleasure and an honor getting to spend some time with you, hope you have a great weekend!
Kevin
P.S.
Did you know: U + U = Double U (a.k.a W)
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