Tooth Decay

Tooth Decay

The strongest part of our body structure is our bones. The
strongest bones are our teeth. How can they decay? We must look
at the enamel, dentine and root of the tooth as well as the bone
they rest in for some answers.
Scientists have already searched very hard and long for answers.
But their work is hampered by commercial interests that
try to shape the results. Since commerce determines which research
can be done (that is, paid for) sacred territory can be ignored.
For example, the effects of sugar-eating, gum-chewing,
tooth brushing, fluoridation, tooth filling materials and diet can
be ignored if it interferes with product sales. Trivial studies such
as comparing shapes of toothbrushes, studying the chemical
composition of plaque, and studies of bacterial structure and
genes are done instead. Studies “at the molecular level” do not
threaten existing industries.
Important research has lapsed since the 40's and 50's. Perspective
on tooth health was sound and clear in the mind of Dr.
Weston Price in the 1930's. His scientific studies stand as a beacon
even today because truths, once found, do not change. He

traveled the world over in search of good teeth. Anywhere and
anytime he found them, he described the people who had them.
This is excellent science. It lets you draw the conclusions. He
described what he saw in a book, titled Nutrition and Physical
Degeneration.13 They came to these conclusions from the following
observable facts:
1. Skulls of primitive peoples who lived along coastlines,
such as Peruvians, Scandinavians and various islanders,
and whose staple foods included fish daily, showed perfect
teeth; not a single cavity in a lifetime. They had strong
bones that didn't break even once in a lifetime of 45 years.
Skeletal structure was fully developed, meaning the jaw
bone was not undershot or cheek bones squeezed together,
forcing the teeth to grow into a smaller than ideal space.
Consequently, there was room for the wisdom teeth, and no
need to crowd the remainder. They saw no crooked teeth or
unerupted wisdom teeth. The authors estimated a daily
consumption of 4 to 5 grams of calcium in their fish
containing diet.
Our daily consumption of less than 1 gram calcium daily is
small by comparison. Our wisdom teeth erupt poorly, our other
teeth are often crooked. But today bad teeth go shamefully unheeded
because we don't need to chew our food, we can lap it
(ice cream) or suck it, or gum it (applesauce).
2. These primitive peoples got all the calcium, magnesium,
phosphate, boron and other bone builders they needed
simply from eating (fish) bones. Mexican peoples got 4 to
6 grams of calcium a day from stone-grinding of corn for
their staple, tortillas, instead of from fish.
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Where do we get our calcium? Milk is our only supply. One
quart supplies one gram. There is little excuse for a carnivorous
society like ours to regularly throw away the bones of its food
animals in view of our dire shortage. It leaves us dependent on
milk alone. Milk has so many disadvantages. It is impossible to
milk a cow by machine and not get a few manure bacteria, Salmonellas
and Shigellas, into the milk. These bacteria are not
completely killed by pasteurization the way more susceptible
bacteria are. It takes boiling temperature to kill all of them. Why
isn't milk sterilized? Water was sterilized for human consumption
in distant decades. Chlorination of water is not ideal but it did
sterilize the water. Milk could be sterilized by boiling or flashheating.
Milk has other disadvantages: dozens of antibiotics, both by
feed and by shot, bovine growth hormone, chemicals added in
milk processing, the bad effects of homogenization, and allergy to
milk. Yet, in a choice between milk drinking and bone loss, one
must choose the milk. This would not be necessary if bones were
properly salvaged–ground to powder and added back to the meat
where it belongs–to offset the acidifying effect of the phosphate
in meat. One gram of calcium is not much bone (½ tsp.) but it
requires a whole quart of milk. Bone powder added back to
ground meat, soups, stews could greatly improve our tooth decay
problem, bone density problem, and skeletal growth problems.