Healing Our Children by Rami Nagel |
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| Written by Sally Fallon Morell |
| April 16 2009 |
A Thumbs Up Book Review
Many of you recognize the name of Rami Nagel as a contributor of articles on sacred foods to Wise Traditions. Nagel has contributed his knowledge and his passion for the work of Dr. Price in this volume on feeding and nurturing children. And in addition to an extensive discussion of the work of Weston Price, Healing Our Children provides plenty of parenting advice. But parents will unlikely be challenged by behavior problems if they follow the dietary guidelines that Nagel provides. In contrast to so many books on child rearing and child nutrition, Nagel puts the emphasis where it belongs—on nutrient-dense foods rich in the fat-soluble activators, from organ meats to butter from grass-fed cows. An additional benefit is an excellent discussion of vaccination dangers. Thumbs up.
This article appeared in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts, the quarterly journal of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Winter 2008. About the Reviewer
She joined forces with Enig again to write Eat Fat, Lose Fat, and has authored numerous articles on the subject of diet and health. Through her New Trends Publishing label, she publishes books on nutrition and health, such as The Fourfold Path to Healing (by Dr. Tom Cowan), Honoring Our Cycles (by Katie Singer), The Untold Story of Milk (by Ron Schmid) and The Whole Soy Story (by Kaayla Daniel). The President of the Weston A. Price Foundation and founder of A Campaign for Real Milk, Sally is also a journalist, chef, nutrition researcher, homemaker, and community activist. Her four healthy children were raised on whole foods including butter, cream, eggs and meat.
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Dangerous material to avoid.
written by Mariana Ryan, Jan 20 2011
Thank you, Mindy, I completely agree with your review.
Endorsing Nagel degrades my respect for the Weston A. Price Foundation written by Mindy Ranney, Aug 01 2010
I'm hoping that the reviewer didn't have the time to fully read this book, as it's filled with conspiracy theories and extreme generalizations that offended even me, a huge Raw Milk and Nourishing Traditions advocate in my community who didn't vaccinate her children intends to home-school and has a healthy distrust of western medicine. I found this book a disservice to all those areas and many more.
I would have been less turned off if Nagel wrote the book in a voice and tone that matches what it is: an editorial. Instead, however he presents most everything in the book as absolute fact and for credibility provides occasional references (which, aside from Price's work) are weak. Here are just a few of the extreme claims that you must have missed when reviewing this book: "Vaccinating a baby is a way to inflict pain while the parent remains unfeeling and numb. If you did not feel pleasure moving through your body you would not be able to perform the action; there would be no motivation for it." p. 278 "Infertility is an aspect of our karma, as it has to do with our present and past actions and unresolved life patterns." p. 118 "The HIV virus is created by a scientist for biological warfare." p. 284 In bold print on p. 284: "The purpose of vaccinations, besides providing immediate profit, is to cause cancer, AIDS, and lowered intelligence. Want Some Cancer? Get a vaccine." p. 297 School teachers your child to expect a miserable, silent, monotonous and confined life. The purpose of school is to train your child to become a malleable and spiritless automation that can be controlled and manipulated. p.187 - 188 Nagel tells a fictional story in which a mother isn't able to immediately respond to her baby's cry and Nagel hypothesizes that the baby feels deep pain and experiences severe withdrawal and emotional damage. It's this exact propaganda that is causing extreme stress, depression, and health problems in many new mothers I see: the notion that they must, at all costs to themselves, other children, their marriage, their finances, their health, respond immediately to every cry without any delay ever. And if they don't their baby will be permanently and severely emotionally damaged. What data is this based on? There are studies on long-term crying and stress hormone changes, but I've never seen any on occasional crying for under 10 minutes (which is the scenerio Nagel describes). How is responding 100% of the time, immediately remotely realistic, even for the most dedicated mother? And so when she, inevitably, doesn't hear the monitor or sleeps through a cry b/c of sleep deprivation she is now laden with guilt on top of this impossible responsibility. These extreme beliefs and generalizations make this book dangerous, especially to new mothers who are highly influence-able and struggling for support and encouragement. i wouldn't let my friends read it, let alone buy it for them! Instead I'd offer to babysit for them and make them some home-cooked food using Nourishing Traditions recipes. Oh, and I'd give them as much emotional support and encouragement as possible that they are doing a wonderful job!!!
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Healing Our Children
Sally Fallon Morell is the author of Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats (with Mary G. Enig, PhD), a well-researched, thought-provoking guide to traditional foods with a startling message: Animal fats and cholesterol are not villains but vital factors in the diet, necessary for normal growth, proper function of the brain and nervous system, protection from disease and optimum energy levels.
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