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Summary: Before there was Weston Price, there was Sir Robert McCarrison. In the first decades of the twentieth century, this British doctor and officer conducted some of the great initial investigations into the effect of diet on health. Studying different subpopulations in India, McCarrison showed that most of the diseases incurred by each population were a result of diet, specifically a diet of processed foods—a result that would later be echoed by Dr. Price's famous worldwide investigation into traditional versus processed-food diets. Like Price, McCarrison bemoaned the disease-causing effects of foods such as refined sugar and flour, and he emphasized the extreme importance of choosing natural foods, including natural fats, over processed ones. In this short biographical sketch he is quoted, "I know of nothing so potent in maintaining good health in laboratory animals as perfectly constituted food [and] I know of nothing so potent in producing ill health as improperly constituted food. This, too, is the experience of stock breeders. Is man an exception to a rule so universally applied to the higher animals?" Note: You can read McCarrison's landmark 1921 book, Studies in Deficiency Disease—reprinted in its entirety by the Lee Foundation in 1945—in these archives.
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