>When looking at the terrible impacts on the health of indigenous peoples,
>and there are a number of references to the South Pacific (there are no
>'Great Barrier Reef people' but I suspect that the reference is to a
>particular former mission community of Australian aboriginal people) I think
>regard has to be had for the undermining of health not just by diet but by
>efforts at their overall cultural destruction, loss of land, loss of
>lifestyle, loss of identity. The condensed milk and canned fish and other
>store goods that seem to have contributed to health decline in the South
>Pacific need to be seen in broader context.
Not a mission community. Price visited quite a few communities along
the east coast, finding both "isolated" (traditional) and
"modernised" (exposed to modern foods) communities. He also visited
Torres Straits islanders. He was a very careful man! The effects he
found were due to the food, not to a wider context. If you can't lay
your hands on his book, try the excellent extended review at Steve
Solomon's site, which includes lots of Price's photographs:
http://www.soilandhealth.org/02healthlibrary/0203longevitycat/020305pp
nf/PPNF.HTML
>To argue against gelatin and sugar seems a bit naive, especially on the
>basis of saying that they are no good because they only contain sugar and
>gelatin. Is oxygen bad because it only contains oxygen? Gelatin and sugar,
>in modest amounts, are wonderfully supportive for invalids, for good
>biological reasons. Arguments in favour of starches rather than simple
>sugars are simplistic, ignoring the extent to which the former can create
>problems of bacterial endotoxin in the gut, etc. To the extent that the
>paper argues for fruit and against grain, this seems good, but the muddle
>arises with the tut tut over sugar.
There's rather more to it than a tut-tut. See "The Saccharine Disease
- Conditions caused by the taking of refined carbohydrates, such as
sugar and white flour" by T.L. Cleave, Wright, Bristol, 1974. ISBN 0
7236 0368 5
Like Price, Surgeon-Captain Cleave went there, he doesn't leave much
to argue about.
Best
Keith
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