Ok I just came across Clara Davis' 1928 study "Self-selection of Diet by Newly Weaned Infants" from a pretty haphazard source - The book Elephants on Acid. I assume you have heard of the study. Well, in the excerpt the author describes how Davis had 3 different infants several months of age contained in a hospital where she would offer each infant a huge selection of foods and have the infant decide which foods it wanted. Of course there were cooked foods, grain products and whole milk but no junk foods. The nurses were instructed to let the infants pick out their own food. Two of the infants stayed on the diet for 6 months and the other for a year. The results of the study seem to point in the direction of instincto eating - The babies would spontaneously and unpredictably change their diets every few weeks.
One of the infants had rickets at the outgoing and a bowl of cod liver oil was placed on the tray and he consumed it for 3 months until the rickets went away and then stopped eating it.
Have you conducted any infant studies like the above?
The infants still fell ill to influenza, whooping cough and chicken pox.
Excellent idea to point out the famous experiment of Clara Davis!
The results show indeed that there’s a self-regulation of the food intake in the very young children. This self-regulation is therefore likely to be innate rather than induced by training. Such an innate automatism ensuring a self-regulation is precisely what is (or must be) called
alimentary instinct.
I could discern the phenomenon on many children who stayed in my alimentary rehabilitation centre, and already before on my own children and those of the instinctos of the first decades. It is very interesting for us to know that regulation mechanisms already exist for cooked food. However, it was done with relatively simple foodstuffs. The more the cooking receipts are sophisticated, the more the senses are induced in error. The advantage of the instincto, thanks to the suppression of all the causes of flavors denaturation, is that this regulation is exerted under the best conditions, with the most precise results.
This is checked at the level of the inflammatory tendency, but also in the various child diseases, influenzas, etc at level of the symptoms importance (in fact related to the inflammatory tendency). I could notice that instincto children never presented the usual symptoms. They got these diseases, like the majority of their pars, but in mild form i.e. the symptoms remained almost unperceivable. This explains why the subjects implied in the protocol of Clara Davis got these various diseases on the usual mode: instinctive nutritional balance wasn’t as ideal because of cooking and other causes of savors deterioration, without taking into account the formation of AGEs and other heat damaged or wrecked molecules.
The alimentary instinct is undoubtedly the most deeply rooted of all the instincts, in humans as in animals. It is believed lost, but it isn’t so because the mechanisms constituting it are atrophied, but because the foodstuff presented day after day to the sensory organs hamper their normal functioning. After generations of cooking art, our culture ended up rejecting the listening of the body, under pretext that instincts belong to animals, to substitute to it the omnipotence of the mental. Instincto-nutrition makes it possible to find the right balance between these two entities, both essential to the human organism and psyche balance.
