One of my interests is nutrition… not faddish new ways to loose weight or the latest so called super food, but looking at what history has taught us. How did our ancestors live and survive and flourish before we had all the convenient foods of our modern societies. There is a great book called “Nutrition and Physical Degeneration” by Weston A Price in 1939. (www.westonaprice.org) The book is about the doctor’s studies of remote ancient people, their health compared with that of people of the same genetic stock who had adopted modern foods (white sugar and flour, etc), and the findings from these studies.
In the book he quotes a study that was done in 1935 by Donald Laird “The Tail That Wags the Nation,”. It he states: “The country’s average level of general ability sinks lower with each generation. Should the ballot be restricted to citizens able to take care of themselves? One out of four cannot. . . . The tail is now wagging Washington, and Wall St. and LaSalle Street. . . . Each generation has seen some lowering of the American average level of general ability.”
Dr. Price’s reason for quoting this was to show the increasing decline in the mental and moral capabilities of people living on modern diets. How there is an increase in crime, anti-social behavior, birth defects (all types from narrow palates, narrowing hips, lack of immunity to illness, ability to reproduce, ease of child birth and mental retardation etc). Dr. Price said “After one has lived among the primitive racial stocks in different parts of the world and studied them in their isolation, few impressions can be more vivid than that of the absence of prisons and asylums.’ He continued: ‘Few, if any, of the problems which confront modern civilization are more serious and disturbing than the progressive increase in the percentage of individuals with unsocial traits and a lack of responsibility.” Back then, they estimated one in four could not take care of themselves… what is it today?
I will tell you… about 53% http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/president/
Who else… http://bonzrus.com/obamasfault/?p=51