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The Modern Diet Is a Biosecurity Threat

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In 1931, an American dentist named Weston Price closed his practice and began a long tour of the known world. Entering his early 60s, he had already enjoyed a long and illustrious career and could be counted among the most influential practitioners of dental medicine in the United States. As chair of the American Dental Association’s research committee, he had helped lead the charge—later reversed—against root canals and in favor of tooth extraction, and in his research publications he had pioneered new technologies to monitor dental health. But his voyage abroad would be no end-of-career capstone. Price was determined to find the answer to something that had started to bother him: the gnawing suspicion that the modern diet was causing a serious degradation in human health. Price had noticed a rapid increase in dental problems roughly around the end of the nineteenth century. Before, he had been able to expect a baseline of dental health in his patients and research subjects. Now, that

Annie Sprat/Tools in greenhouse In 1931, an American dentist named Weston Price closed his practice and began a long tour of the known world. Entering his early 60s, he had already enjoyed a long and illustrious career and could be counted among the most influential practitioners of dental medicine in the United States. As chair of the American Dental Association’s research committee, he had helped lead the charge—later reversed—against root canals and in favor of tooth extraction, and in his research publications he had pioneered new technologies to monitor dental health. But his voyage abroa

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