Seasonal variation and relationship in vitamin content(A+D) of dairy products and mortality rates

[JulofEnoch]

Howdy y'all,

I was recently having a conversation with someone about Weston Price and figured that I'd share a study he released and that I cite frequently.

View of health and disease based on a rise and fall in the levels of life with cycles in vitamin tides by Weston A Price

Price starts by stating-

"This rise and fall in the level of life has an almost endless variety of expressions. Since animal life can only exist by using as nutrition directly or indirectly organic compounds developed by plant life, and the plant can use only binary compounds which it builds into ternary and higher compounds, we will look for characteristics of the plant foods to find, if possible, factors that will be related directly and indirectly to the characteristics of the morbidity and mortality data."

To determine the variation in plant food quality, in relation to the metabolism of mammalian species(humans in particular), Price focuses on the vitamin content of milk saying:

"We have in this fluid the only single food capable of sustaining life and growth, and a product that is remarkably uniform, regardless of the species from which it is obtained. Since milk contains the essentials for life and is the product of plant life, it may and probably does contain expressions of variation in those controlling factors which are involved in the rise and fall in the levels of life, for it contains the elements which maintain life."

Price focuses on fat-soluble vitamins and notes "The last two decades, and particularly the last few years, have rapidly increased our knowledge of the accessory food factor". He describes "an extensive investigation on the variations in the levels of these activating substances in the fats of milk. This involves a study of the level of the fat soluble activators in dairy products as obtained from many countries throughout the world. Samples are being received from countries in both Northern and Southern Hemispheres, regularly monthly, weekly or every 2 weeks. The Alaska products include reindeer milk, butter and cheese, beside marine-life oils."

Prices tracks data from several countries and does an analysis with several U.S. States and cities.

Price concludes "Very little emphasis seems to have been placed upon or importance attached to the fact that annual tides have existed producing rhythmic rise and fall in the levels of vital phenomenons. I have placed much emphasis upon the fact that the very existence of the tides as rise and fall in the levels of life is itself the indisputable evidence that the phenomenons are related directly to factors which are variable from month to month in cycles."

Further, "The extension of this study to dairy products obtained from many countries distributed throughout the world in both hemispheres demonstrates the presence of this relationship. The application of the principles involved by the administration of the fat soluble activating products that are obtainable from actively growing plant foods, particularly from milk fat produced from such foods, is found to be capable of effecting a very marked amelioration of the pathological phenomenons associated with a reduction of infection through increased resistance as a defensive reaction, and in general is preventing the recurring cycle of morbidity in many individuals."

Lastly, "The accumulating evidence suggests the consideration of disease being, in many cases, more correctly speaking, a symptom and that individuals often, instead of dying because they contract disease, primarily develop disease because they are dying. This interpretation provides an explanation for the increasing incidence of several diseases in particular localities, and seems to be associated with a depletion in the activating products of plant foods in these districts in part or chiefly the result of soil depletion of essential chemicals for efficient plant development, since these chemical elements are essential to the plant for creating these vitalizing activators which are essential for animal life. To the extent to which these interpretations are correct, there is need for a change of emphasis in health programs from prophylaxis which has been found to be only partially effective, to an increase in the required activators partly by an improvement of soil conditions in order that plant life may be improved in quality, both for its use as food for humans and for the improvement of the nutrition of the foster mothers -the dairy animals-around which our civilizations have been built."