Nexus - 1503 - New Times Magazine-pages

Page Content (OCR)

virtually free of tooth decay and how they lost this immunity. milk of goats or cows. They ate meat once a week. In 1931 and 1932, Dr Price travelled to the remote Loetschental In Dr Price's study of 4,280 teeth of children living in the high Valley in the Swiss Alps, seeking the cause and solution to one of _—_ alpine valleys, he found that 3.4 per cent had been attacked by our number one diseases: tooth decay. The people of the valley decay. But in the Loetschental Valley, he found only 0.3 per cent lived in harmony with nature, which resulted in a seemingly of all teeth affected by decay.’ peaceful existence. Dr Price wrote of the Loetschental people: So, the Loetschental people were highly immune to cavities and "They have neither physician nor dentist because they have so yet a significant part of their diet was a sourdough rye bread. little need for them; they have neither policeman nor jail, because Bread is something that many dental associations believe to be a they have no need for them." primary cause of cavities when it is left stuck on the teeth. The This harmony is also evident in the production of food: people of Loetschental Valley did not floss and did not brush their "While the cows spend the warm summer on the verdant knolls teeth. They even had typical deposits in their mouths but did not and wooded slopes near the glaciers and fields of perpetual snow, suffer from tooth decay. Dr Price wrote: they have a period of high and rich productivity of milk... This "[M]any primitive races have their teeth smeared with starchy cheese contains the natural butter fat and minerals of the splendid —_ foods almost constantly and make no effort whatsoever to clean milk and is a virtual storehouse of life for the coming winter."* their teeth. In spite of this they have no tooth decay."” (Emphasis added in italics.) Meanwhile, during the same time period, Reverend John Siegen, the pastor of the tooth decay was a major problem for one church in the valley, told Dr Price about schoolchildren in modern parts of the butter and cheese made with a high Switzerland, with 85-100 per cent of the degree of harmony from the milk of the population affected. Modern Swiss children grazing Cows: of a similar genetic lineage, living in modern "He told me that they recognize the ow " towns with access to the most advanced dental presence of Divinity in the life-giving This due homage techniques of the time, suffered from tooth qualities of the butter made in June when paid to butter is a decay. The people did not seem to know why, cows have arrived for pasturage near the 0 and even tried regular exercise and suntanning glaciers. He gathers the people together to far cry from today i) of the children—with no relief from cavities. ink he Kind Pate fo evince ofhs | qigtary dictators, | Tsun of cvs nthe oder hin and cheese when the cows eat the grass near who say that they lacked access to modern dental care: it the snow line... The natives of the valley are butter is bad for had to do with the lack of vitamins in the able to recognize the superior quality of industrialised, commercialised foods their June butter, and, without knowing our health because they were now eating. sane te homene ofiishigh levels of I cate srl oe This "due homage" paid to butter is a saturated tat an summer butter and cheese, and fresh, far cry from today's dietary dictators, raw goat's and cow's milk. They who say that butter is bad for our health cholesterol. replaced their carefully prepared whole because of its high levels of saturated rye sourdough bread with white-flour fat and cholesterol. products. They substituted their summer In reflecting on his time in butters and cheeses with margarines, Loetschental Valley, Dr Price stated: marmalades, jams, canned vegetables, "One immediately wonders if there is confections and fruits, all of which had not something in the life-giving to be transported to the area. They grew vitamins and minerals of the food that only a limited supply of their vegetables builds not only great physical structures locally. But even in these modernised within which their souls reside, but builds minds and hearts areas, some children did have a high immunity to tooth decay—the capable of a higher type of manhood in which the material values ones who still ate their native diet. Dr Price noted: of life are made secondary to individual character."* "We studied some children here whose parents retained their We can see, feel and hear a high degree of harmony with primitive methods of food selection, and without exception those Nature in the description of the people and environment of the who were immune to dental caries were eating a distinctly different Loetschental Valley. Not only are the animals and the land food from those with high susceptibility to dental caries."" honoured in a sacred manner, so is the food. The people see and On average, the modernised Swiss had a rate of tooth decay know the divine quality within their butter. And to see this eight times higher than those who still followed their native diet. quality in the butter, they must also see and know this divine Of 2,065 teeth that Dr Price analysed in another study, 25.5 per quality within themselves. This knowing, I hypothesise, is a cent had been attacked by dental caries and many teeth had result of a way of living in accordance with Nature's fundamental become abscessed (infected).'* laws. And the people see evidence and are reminded of their own The difference between the two diets of the people of divinity by seeing the "Father" and His "Being", His presence, in Switzerland in the 1930s indicates an important key to unlocking the gift which He gave them: the gift of health, aliveness and the body's ability to remineralise cavities. The modern Swiss who vitality through His butter and cheese. had a high degree of tooth decay still ate many similar foods to The diet of the Loetschental Valley people in the early 1930s those on the indigenous diet. They ate bread and butter and drank consisted of whole rye bread, summer butter and cheese (about as milk. But they also added new foods to their diet that were large a portion as the slice of bread), eaten with the fresh, raw largely uncommon in the area: sweets. This "due homage" paid to butter is a far cry from today's dietary dictators, who say that butter is bad for of its high levels of saturated fat and cholesterol. APRIL — MAY 2008 NEXUS = 31 our health because www.nexusmagazine.com