while the males became docile. After just three generations, young animals died before reaching adulthood and reproduction ceased. The cat study of Dr. Pottenger is unique and there has been no
similar study done. Also, the results of the study of the cat experi- ments have sometimes been misinterpreted. Humans are not cats. The findings do not mean we should only eat raw foods. The Price- Pottenger Foundation states that “Pottenger’s findings must be seen in the context of the Price research and can be interpreted as fol- lows: when the human diet produces “facial deformities,” progres- sive narrowing of the face and crowding of the teeth, extinction will occur if that diet is followed for several generations. The implication for western civilization, obsessed as it is with refined, highly sweet- ened convenience foods and low fat items, is profound. Dr. Pottenger stated, “While no attempt will be made to cor-
relate the changes in the animals studied with malformations found in humans, the similarity is so obvious that parallel pictures will suggest themselves.”
The Change to Better Health So now we have a basic understanding of how our diet has
played a major role in getting ourselves into a state of ill health. So how do we begin to make a change to better health? For most of us it can seem so overwhelming that we get stuck and do absolutely nothing about it. The secret to approaching this is by using a gradient scale,
gradually decreasing foods that are detrimental and we know we shouldn’t be eating and gradually increasing eating the foods that are good for us. You would think that in an ideal world we would just be able to make a list of real food and easily switch over to it and leave all the unhealthy foods behind. Unfortunately this is a sure-fire formula for failure. Dr. Freddie Ulan, the developer of Nu- trition Response Testing, states, “In 1993 I made a big breakthrough in this subject when I realized that the only way to bring about real lasting improvement in anyone’s health was to use an intelligent, gradient-scale approach to dietary improvement, while supplement- ing with the exact right nutritional supplement formulas as deter- mined by an accurate nutrition response testing analysis.” Whenever I ask someone to change their diet immediately and
give them an exact diet program to follow, some would follow it faithfully for 3 or 4 weeks, maybe even more. And then? Crash, burn, down and out for good. So, unfortunately, it just doesn’t work that way. In fact, that is the perfect setup for the yo-yo diet. You’re up, you’re down, you’re on this diet, you’re on that diet, then no diet. In addition to this many people have a misunderstanding of what good food is and what it isn’t. There is so much misinformation and unethical advertising out there. People are not differentiating between real food and food
products. Add to that a lack of understanding of nutritional basics, including terms we use all the time like proteins, amino acids, car- bohydrates, starches, fats, etc. Before making a change you first have to know what you are
eating now, therefore, a food journal is an indispensable tool. Just write down everything you eat for a few weeks to give yourself a baseline to which you can apply a gradient scale of improvement. This will also force you to confront what you are really eating and drinking. If you are like most people, after the first week you will tell yourself, “That was an off week; I’m not really doing that.” And after the second week you’ll say, “Oh that was an off week, I’m not really doing that.” Around the third week reality just may sink in, “Hey I really do eat like this!” You should carry this diet journal with you every day and fill it out as you eat, not afterwards, and definitely not at the end of the
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