Yes, as far as I am aware, Dr Weston Price is both a dentist and nutritionist. In fact, dentistry was part of what lead him to study cultures around the world because of how much worse the western dental problems were.
If low fat diets were the answer, why are people getting fatter and sicker? These are the "in" thing, yet are simply not working. It isn't the fat you should be blaming, but rather the white flour, sugar and WRONG fats like hardened vegetable oils/trans fats.
Two people I know are fat and eat every low fat food they can. Guess what? They are not only NOT getting slimmer, but fatter as far as I can notice. They assume that if something has fat in it, this means they will put on weight. Wrong. Perhaps if they started eating the right natural foods they might find a change.
If you actually read Price's studies, you will find he mentions all kinds of foods for health like fruits and vegetables etc. It isn't just about meat and fats, however he has discovered cultures who surivive nicely on a mainly meat and fat diet. He does not advocate eating this alone, but rather a balance of these foods to get the best of both worlds.
You only have to look his findings up yourself. It is very interesting.
Here is another link that Dr Mercola talks about him as well.
http://www.mercola.com/2001/jan/28/weston_price2.htmTo me, Price has gone out on a limb to provide evidence for his studies for the rest of us so we can benefit from it. Photographs as well.
Here is another link for you so you can find out the types of people who are part of the Weston Price foundation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston_A._Price_FoundationIf this doesn't convince you that these people might just have some clue of what they speak, then nothing will. The asian / Mexican culture is FAR from the only one to study and certainly is not the healthiest compared to the other ones Price discovered.
The asian diet is certainly far better than the typical western one, but this hardly covers it all. I did well too once on fruits and vegetables and grains and low meat consumption, but the main reason why I improved was ousting sugar, gluten, white flour, yeast out of my diet.
I do just as well on meats, eggs. fats, no fruit, vegetables. Simply because the bad foods are out of my diet and are replaced by natural foods and healthy fats. I no longer get the heart symptoms I started getting when consuming the hardened vegetable oils (interesting that). They disappeared, yet I now eat liberal amounts now of butter, olive oil, fish oil, flaxseed oil etc...and even fat on meat.
