Although diet has an obvious association with body weight and health, you may be surprised by the possibility that it can also have a significant influence on your character.

While it might initially be difficult to believe that your diet can have such a strong influence on your behavior, it’s well established that adequate nutrition is critical to proper brain development and function. Based on this, it should be reasonable to expect that altered brain function can influence your thoughts and emotions, and in turn, influence the actions that define your character.

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Many of today’s most serious health problems were much less of a concern just a century ago, and even then, they were much more prevalent than they should have been. The amazing work of Dr. Weston Price shows in dramatic fashion how modern foods are a major cause of this rapid degeneration.

As a dentist, Dr. Price witnessed a high incidence of tooth decay and other degenerative conditions that were characteristic of poor health. He believed that these conditions were a result of factors that were missing from the typical modernized diet and was determined to identify what they were. To find the answers he wanted, he realized that he needed a control population that wasn’t effected by the influence of modernized civilization. As such, he spent several years traveling the world to study primitive cultures that were still isolated from the modern way of life, and by doing so, he made some remarkable discoveries.

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