Kevin Brown
Sadiqua Hamdan
Debbie Wysocki
Paul Ericson
Maureen Diaz
Janet Demeter
Liz Reitzig
Lauren Snyder Grosz
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
let'spoon
Morley Robbins
Janet Stuck, ND, CNC, MH, CNHP, CWE, LE
John Chisholm
Dr. Richard Walicki
Nicole Rice
Margie King
emotionalyoga
truthinthepublicinterest
Beck Anderson, RYT 200
Jimmy Moore
rawmilk95
meljoy96
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Joette Calabrese
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Weston Price Foundation Review
By Kevin Brown, CPT, NC & Annette Presley, RD, LD, CPT
This book covers a wide range of topics-calories, lipid hypotheses, water, salt, soy, exercise, milk and other things. Many try to get the facts straight on all these subjects. Few succeed. This one actually succeeds, and succeeds well.
Some important histories are covered, including the history of the lipid hypothesis and the invention of Crisco. One of the most important keys to understanding what is really going on and what is wrong with nutrition today, is understanding the history of how we got here.
There is brief and very instructive section that explains how drugs came to dominate medicine. About one hundred years ago Carnegie and Rockefeller, who had a large vested interest in pharmaceuticals, established the accreditation system for medical schools. Only schools teaching a pharmaceutical approach to medicine received accreditation. Before that there was plenty of competition from natural, homeopathic and nutritional approaches. After that, there was very little competition.
Most Americans put a lot of faith in anyone with a degree and a lot of fancy letters after their name from an accredited school. It’s good to know exactly what that really means and how vested interests can appear to be philanthropic while influencing entire cultures and educational systems in ways that are not in our best interests.
Brown and Presley also cover what I call the birth control diet. Reverend Sylvester Graham was a preacher in the 1800s that had a thing against sex. He figured out that a vegetarian, grain based diet reduced sex drive. He and Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (also against sex) were instrumental in promoting the base of today’s government approved food pyramid.
Readers of The Untold Story of Milk by Dr. Ron Schmid will recognize a quick recap of the history of milk in the U.S.
In the 1930s, salesmen went so far as to show prospective customers samples of partially digested homogenized milk and unhomogenized milk, claiming the homogenized milk was better digested. Of course, to obtain these samples, regurgitation was necessary at some point. This makes me suspect that Americans didn’t give up their raw milk due to science, safety or convenience. They were just desperate to put a stop to this sick Ralph and Earl road show.
We give this one a thumb up.
http://www.westonaprice.org/The-Liberation-Diet-by-Kevin-Brown.html
The Weston A. Price Foundation is a nonprofit, tax-exempt charity founded in 1999 to disseminate the research of nutrition pioneer Dr. Weston Price, whose studies of isolated nonindustrialized peoples established the parameters of human health and determined the optimum characteristics of human diets. Dr. Price’s research demonstrated that humans achieve perfect physical form and perfect health generation after generation only when they consume nutrient-dense whole foods and the vital fat-soluble activators found exclusively in animal fats.
