Further reading

The most important book one could read on this topic, in my opinion, is Price's Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, available in full online. For a modern book that builds on these principles and communicates them in a manner more relatable to modern readers, I would highly recommend Cate Shanahan's Deep Nutrition. Shanahan has achieved some fame by working with sports stars like Dwight Howard, and her recommendations of bone broth and fatty meats have made waves across the sports world usually obsessed with the latest new su perdrug for improving performance. 

Gary Taubes' work has been instrumental in questioning the dogma of accepted wisdom in the United States, particularly his book Good Calories, Bad Calories. To learn more about the politics of food in the United States, and in particular the role that special interest groups have played in shaping the nonsense regurgitated by mass education institutions and mass media, I would recommend Nina Teicholz's Big Fat Surprise.

The Weston A Price Foundation is an organization dedicated to spreading the teachings of Weston Price and providing people with knowledge to help them make healthy choices. While I am eternally grateful to them for what I have learned from them, and I highly appreciate their tireless work in raising awareness of Price's work, educating people about real food, and countering mainstream nutrition dogma, I have some misgivings about their approaches. In particular, the WAPF are fixated on emulating the traditional methods of preparing plants to an extent that is very impractical in the modern world. While it is clearly true that soaking and fermenting plants will reduce the toxins that exist in them and increase the availability of nutrients, it nonetheless remains the case that plant foods are still massively inferior to animal foods for nutrition, and people would be far better off focusing on eating more meat instead of being distracted by elaborate and expensive traditional rituals of preparation.

To understand why and how animal grazing is beneficial to the soil, I highly recommend the work of Alan Savory and the Savory Institute. This Ted talk by Alan Savory is a good introduction to his work.