Graham - Pottengers prophecy: how food resets genes for wellness or illness

As a doctor on the front lines of the currentobesity epidemic, I have become increasingly alarmed that peoplesimply are unaware of how to eat, or what the food they put intotheir mouths is doing to them. People no longer know what or how toeat. Food choices are based on whats fast and what big businessand big agriculture tells us is correct. We are dealing with acountry of obese people who are chronically malnourished. Drs.Pottengers and Price showed us decades ago what was to come oftainting our food supply, yet we failed to heed their warnings.This book has again introduced us to concepts that we should havelistened to decades ago. Perhaps this generation will payattention! We will continue to die of obesity related chronicillnesses until people begin to reclaim their health byunderstanding what and how to eat again. This book lays it out forus.
Tyna Moore, ND, DC

This is an excellent book illustrating thecurrent plight facing our Western culture, warning us of the perilsof a poor diet as predicted by Dr. Pottenger in his bookPottengers Cats, published in 1946. After giving an intriguingexplanation of the new science of epigenetics, and how thatprofoundly influences our health, the authors then provide us allwith timely, healthy, well-reasoned, scientifically-soundnutritional strategies to fetch us back from the brink ofnutritional melt-down. Bravo!
John A. Walck, MD

Deborah Kesten is the author of:
The Enlightened Diet
The Healing Secrets of Food
Feeding the Body, Nourishing the Soul

Larry Scherwitz is co-author of:
The Enlightened Diet

Gray Graham is the founder of the NutritionalTherapy Association (NTA)

Copyright 2011 by Gray Graham, DeborahKesten, and Larry Sherwitz.

All rights reserved. No portion of this book maybe reproduced or used in any form, or by any means, without priorwritten permission of the publisher.

Destiny Health Publishing
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ISBN: 978-0-9836974-2-8

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This book is dedicated to the memory of
Weston A. Price, D.D.S. and
Frances M. Pottenger Jr., M.D.,
whose nutritional wisdom guides us to this day.

This book is possible only because of the landmarkand groundbreaking research of individuals who preceded it. Withthis in mind, we extend gratitude to Gregor Johann Mendel for hisdiscovery in the mid-1800s of how individual traits are passed onthrough generations; the pioneering work in the 1930s of innovatorsFrancis M. Pottenger, Jr., M.D., and Weston A. Price, D.D.S., whomade the link between diet, genes, and health-through-generations,well before the concept existed. We also owe thanks to Britishgeneticists James D. Watson and Francis Crick, who identified thestructure of DNA in the early 1950s; and the relatively recentdiscoveries by Swedish epidemiologist Lars Olov Bygren, Ph.D., andBritish geneticist Marcus Pembrey, Ph.D., who not only revealedthat diet affects genes and whether they express through wellnessor illness, but also that gene expression can be passed on to thenext generation. Clearly, these foundational discoveries, whichshow that food and nutrition are far more important than wepreviously realized, provide the thesis of this book. In thisregard, we also want to acknowledge the Price-Pottenger NutritionFoundation in Lemon Grove, California, whose work is exceedinglyrelevant to this book.

Each health professional and research scientistinterviewed for this book is continuing to contribute to the richrepository of wisdom about food, nutrition, genetics, andepigenetics that has evolved over the decades.

To Robert T. Pottenger, Jr., M.D., who generouslyshared memories about his uncle, Francis M. Pottenger, Jr., and hisbefore-their-time feeding experiments in the 1930s with catswhichprovided early clues about the food-gene-health link.

To educator, doctor, researcher, and a leadingauthority on natural medicine, Joseph Pizzorno, N.D. Founder ofBastyr University, who discussed his knowledge about genetictesting and genes as they relate to health and healing and thefuture of medicine.

To Lara Pizzorno, M.A.(Div), M.A.(Lit), L.M.T., andSenior Medical Editor, who generously shared both her medicalexpertise and personal gene-nutrient health odyssey.

To Pamela Snider, N.D., a brilliant, beautiful friendwho is Founding Executive Director of the Academic Consortium forComplementary and Alternative Health Care (ACCAHC), and ExecutiveEditor, Foundations of Naturopathic Medicine Project. Heartfeltthanks for providing pearls of wisdom about epigenetics and naturalmedicine.

To Dana Dolinoy, M.P.H., Ph.D., for insights abouther research on genistein and its ability to alter coat color andprotect avy mice offspring from obesity by modifyng the fetalepigenome; thank you, too, for giving us permission to print aphoto about your research in our book.

To David Granatstein, a sustainable agriculturespecialist from Wenatchee, Washington, who provided invaluableinsights into the full spectrum of organic and conventional farmingpractices; for providing his excellent chart on this topic; and forhis broad-spectrum wisdom about soil and food quality.

To Malea Balmuth, her husband, Edward, and theirchildren Eliza and Jake, for sharing their food pioneerexperience about the sustainable and organic farm they created forthe nourishment of the family.

To Preston Andrews, Ph.D., Associate Professor ofHorticulture, Department of Horticulture & LandscapeArchitecture, Washington State University at Pullman, who sharedhis knowledge about living soil, food quality... and more.

To John P. Reganold, Ph.D., director and founder ofWashington State Universitys organic farming major. His novel andpioneering farming systems research has shown that organic,biodynamic, and integrated farming practices are sustainable, andcan mitigate some of the hazardous effects of conventionalagriculture on the environment.

To Matthew Anway, Ph.D., for his time and in-depthinsights into both his own innovative research on epigenetics, andalso for providing an arc overview of this emerging newscience.

To Linda Roghaar, for her ongoing support,enthusiasm, and publishing expertise extraordinaire.

To Joanne McCall, for applying her finely honedpublic relations skills to get the word out about our book. Weappreciate the coverage she achieved in top-tier print, broadcast,and online media, and her ability to help create a spot onplatform that effectively communicates our work.