Why are American teeth crooked, decaying?

"How Are Teeth Damaged?" (Tooth Truth by Frank J. Jerome, D.D.S., pp. 199-200)

Famous Budai, the fat happy smiling Mahayana monk or "Buddha" (shutterstock.com)

 

Dr. Weston Price [westinaprice.org] was a highly respected research dentist who worked in the first 40 years of the 19th century. For several decades he was employed by the American Dental Association (ADA) as head of its research programs. [He produced volumes of valuable work for them.]

After leaving his post at the ADA, he traveled the world. Taking photographs of native people in Polynesia and other remote areas, he was able to show the influence of the Western (American) diet [or SAD: Standard American Diet] on children in the same families raised before sugar and white flour were introduced and those born after its introduction.
   

"I thought cavs and crooked teeth was normal!"

The children exposed to sugar and white flour had dental disease and their faces were narrower, causing bad bites with crowded, crooked teeth.

In some places, when the Western diet stopped being available, children born after the previous native diet was resumed were again healthy, just as the older children and the parents. Dr. Price's book about his observations of dietary influences on growth and decay, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, has become a classic in nutritional literature.

"Ah, no more vivisection on us!" (funnycats4u)

Dr. Francis Pottenger, M.D. did dietary experiments, using cats. When fed Western diets (human foods), the kittens grew with all the problems we exhibit including allergies and deformed dental arches. When these kittens became adults, he fed them their natural diet, and it took five generations before their kittens were completely healthy.. When the experiments were extended by feeding the cats the Western diet for three more generations, none of the kittens survived to breed. These experiments suggest that after long exposure to the Western diets, the facial deformities common in America -- the long, narrow faces with crowded, crooked teeth -- will become more common...