I have recently taken an interest in reading scientific literature and toyed with the idea of starting up a fantastic "Scientific Literature Book Club"! If anyone would be interested in that. I have finished up reading Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham. That was a short and interesting read detailing how the human diet is specifically adapted to processing cooked foods. Give it a read sometime.
I'm currently working on reading Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price (he was a dentist). This book is over 500 pages worth of observations made by Dr. Price (in the 1930's and 40's) of the effects of a modern diet (read: white flour, refined sugar, canned foods, etc.) on the dentition and physical structure of various groups of people who had previously been following a traditional diet. I am loving every second of reading this book! (There were already two things about the book that I loved before I started reading it---Weston and dentistry---so maybe I'm biased. And there are TEETH! SO MANY TEETH!!!)
I had recently become aware of the teachings of the Weston A Price Foundation (WAPF) and felt that I should delve deeper into it by reading Dr. Price's book. I had intended to do a later post summarizing the outlook of the WAPF but if you're interested take a look at their website.
www.westonaprice.org
The true reason I had for this post though was that I discovered that my adoring audience was missing me (by means of a single post from Spencer on my Facebook wall asking if I was finished blogging). So in thanks to Spencer for feeling a gaping hole in his life due to my lack of eloquent insight.... I drew a picture of him looking like he would if he was a unicorn. You're welcome.
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| I call it: "The Spencercorn" |
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