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This book completely destroys the modern concepts of healthful foods despite being written several decades ago. Price found that native people living free of modern foods had strikingly good teeth and health in general, whereas populations inundated with processed foods had awful teeth and typically equally bad health. Processed food = Ill health. It is that simple. That, and not killing the real food you do consume (do not burn up your bison meat and do not be afraid of raw eggs, one egg in every 30,000 has salmonella and even less with free-range eggs...enough with the paranoia). Unfortunately, these days it is hard and expensive to find food how it evolved in nature. As a result we instead suffer from endless body ailments, deformed faces, and poor dental health. Tell your overpaid MD to read this book or to go take a flying leap. Find a DO who is familiar with this work. Find and support local co-ops that sell grass fed beef and raw milk (you probably live in a state where raw milk is illegal to buy so you have to own part of the cow to get the milk). Be brave! And more simply, do NOT buy highly processed junk foods. When you do, you support that industry and further feed the beast. Give Coke, Pepsi, Kraft, Frito-lay, Monsanto, Tyson, and all the other purveyors of dead food a big middle finger and free yourself from their short-sighted profit structure. I suspect the survival of our species very well could depend on changing the food paradigm back to the old 'savage' ways. Dr. Mercola has a good website to keep up on REAL health trends. I also like Chris Kresser' site and of course the Weston A Price Foundation's site also. And finally, tell the government, both state and federal, to stop imposing their 'standards' on food. Where is freedom of choice with food? If I want to buy raw milk, why does the government stop me? I can make my own choices better than some corrupt corporate controlled government department. UPDATE 7/3/2014 I highly recommend Sally Fallon's 'Nourishing Traditions' to go along with this book. It isn't as simple as processed versus unprocessed. There are specific ways to prepare foods to get them better suited for human physiology (soaking, spouting, fermentation). This is a large oversight by most of the health movement. The paleo diet is unnecessarily restrictive for many people and this is where traditional preparation techniques are crucial for letting people enjoy more foods while not wrecking their health in the process (make no mistake though that all grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds have anti-nutrients that are likely to cause harm in the long term if they are not prepared correctly...take the time to learn these techniques and apply them regularly).