The Oiling of America
In 1954 a young researcher from Russia named David Kritchevsky published a paper describing the effects of feeding cholesterol to rabbits.1 Cholesterol added to vegetarian rabbit chow caused the […]
Caustic Commentary, Fall 2009
BLAME “Millions of Children in U.S. Found to Be Lacking Vitamin D,” says a Washington Post headline (August 3, 2009). Who’s to blame? “Unhealthy lifestyles” say the experts, […]
Caustic Commentary, Summer 2009
Red Meat Villlany? Red meat is under attack again, this time with a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine (2009; 169(6):562-571), which made it to the […]
Agave Nectar: Worse Than We Thought
The Lowdown on High Fructose Corn Syrup and Agave “Nectar” High fructose corn syrup (HFCS) entered the market place in the early 1970s and within twenty years, accounted […]
Cod Liver Oil Basics and Recommendations
Last updated 2019 Concerns about Fermented Cod Liver Oil Questions and Answers About Fermented Cod Liver Oil JUMP TO: Brand Recommendations – Updated 2019 Once a standard supplement in […]
December 2008 Update 2 on Cod Liver Oil
Dear Members, We are obliged to issue another official statement on cod liver oil after the November bulletin of the Vitamin D Council, which contains “an unprecedented warning […]
Caustic Commentary, Winter 2008
New Statin Study: Too Good to be True? “A highly anticipated study has produced powerful evidence that a simple blood test can spot seemingly healthy people who are […]
December 2008 Update on Cod Liver Oil
Dear Members, We have recently received inquiries about several Internet newsletters that have made disparaging remarks about cod liver oil. As the Weston A. Price Foundation recommends the […]
Caustic Commentary, Summer 2008
We Are Not Making This Up An epidemiologist from Auckland University is calling for a health tax on butter, claiming that the dairy fat is “pure, natural poison…as […]
Caustic Commentary, Spring 2008
Infants at Risk The Cornucopia Institute has released a report that questions the alleged benefits of adding “novel” omega-3 fatty acids DHA and ARA, produced in laboratories and […]
Caustic Commentary, Winter 2007
DEATH DIET FOR PREGNANT WOMEN For decades the USDA has promoted a lowfat, high-fiber, high-carb diet for the general population, schematically presented in the form of a pyramid. […]
Caustic Commentary, Fall 2007
Formula For Disaster Concerns about AIDS have given formula makers the green light in Africa. Since 1997, the UN has recommended formula rather than breastfeeding to mothers with […]
Caustic Commentary, Summer 2007
Dementia and Cholesterol Manufacturers of statins, and their cohorts in the media, are blithely promoting these cholesterol-lowering drugs to ward off Alzheimer’s disease and dementia. A good example […]
Caustic Commentary, Spring 2007
SPARCL Fizzles Researchers presented the results of the Stroke Prevention by Aggressive Reduction in Cholesterol Levels (SPARCL) with a lot of fanfare at the 15th European Stroke Conference […]
Caustic Commentary, Winter 2006
The Winners Vaccine pushers have pulled out all the stops to promote Gardasil, intensely marketing the new vaccine to the parents of young girls as young as age […]
Caustic Commentary, Fall 2006
Additives Are Additive New research on common food additives confirms our claim that additives are additive in their effects. Combinations of neurotoxic additives were up to four times […]
Rebuttal to Sokolov on Trans Fats
PRESS RELEASE The Weston A. Price Foundation Washington, DC www.westonaprice.org Contact: Sally Fallon Morell, President (202) 363-4394 info@westonaprice.org Rebuttal to Sokolov on Trans Fats Published as a letter […]
Caustic Commentary, Summer 2006
SIDE EFFECT Last year physicians wrote more than 36 million prescriptions for anti-osteoporosis drugs, such as Actonel, Fosamax and Boniva, mostly to women concerned about losing bone density, […]
Caustic Commentary, Winter 2005-Spring 2006
Getting Gut Flora While public health officials are urging pasteurization, sterilization, irradiation and other strong measures to kill bacteria dead, scientists are accumulating evidence that bacteria are essential […]
The Oiling of America
In 1954 a young researcher from Russia named David Kritchevsky published a paper describing the effects of feeding cholesterol to rabbits.1 Cholesterol added to vegetarian rabbit chow caused the […]
FAQ-Homemade Baby Formula
The advice to make homemade baby formula as an alternative to commercial formula has been one of the most controversial positions taken by the Weston A. Price Foundation—and […]
Caustic Commentary, Fall 2005
RECIPE FOR DISASTER The American Heart Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics have ganged up to target children with a starvation diet guaranteed to saddle them with […]
Vitamin B12: Vital Nutrient for Good Health
One of the most important nutrients we get from animal foods is vitamin B12. The vitamin is also the largest known biomolecule and the only nutrient with a […]
Caustic Commentary, Summer 2005
Demented Theory Researchers are scratching their collective heads over recent findings that cast doubt on the widespread use of cholesterol-lowering drugs. The first was published in the May […]
Caustic Commentary, Spring 2005
Vitamin A and Crib Death Many theories have attempted to explain the mysterious tragedy of crib death or sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)– vaccinations, milk allergies, permapress linens, […]
Caustic Commentary, Winter 2004
Striking Back Unable to obtain government protection against the artificial sweetener aspartame, consumers are striking back with lawsuits. The most recent is a $350 million class action racketeering […]
Caustic Commentary, Fall 2004
Statin Madness. . . In 2003, sales of the class of cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins totaled almost $14 billion, up 10.9 percent from 2002. Growth of this magnitude […]
Caustic Commentary, Summer 2004
Another Paradox Good science requires that theories conform to the evidence; if evidence that contradicts a theory emerges–even a single piece of evidence–then scientists are obliged to come […]
Dangers of Statin Drugs: What You Haven’t Been Told About Popular Cholesterol-Lowering Medicines
Hypercholesterolemia is the health issue of the 21st century. It is actually an invented disease, a “problem” that emerged when health professionals learned how to measure cholesterol levels […]
The Skinny on Fats, French Translation
Original English Version Les Graisses qui Amaigrissent By Mary Enig, PhD, and Sally Fallon Morell French Translation by Charlotte Standen Les graisses d’origine végétales et animales fournissent des […]
Caustic Commentary, Spring 2004
Diet Wars Low-carb dieting is taking its toll on sectors of the food industry. Pasta sales have declined 4 percent over the past year and orange juice consumption […]
Soy: The Dark Side of America’s Favorite “Health” Food
Jenny Smith, a secretary and receptionist, could not explain what was happening to her. She began to make mistakes in her work and suffer from memory lapses. She […]
Caustic Commentary, Winter 2003
Mad Cow Madness All sorts of misinformation surround news reports on the first case of mad cow disease in the US: that it’s contagious, that it’s caused by […]
Caustic Commentary, Fall 2003
We Have Ways of Making You Like It Most processed foods are either bland or bitter without seasonings. That’s why they are likely to contain heaps of salt, […]
Caustic Commentary, Summer 2003
Simple Solution In spite of drastic changes in the American diet, and mass-medication with cholesterol-lowering drugs to the tune of billions of dollars, the number of US deaths […]
Hyperbole Meets High-Tech: Slick Sales Talk and Modern “Energy Bars”
If you are interested in your health and have read books on the subject, you probably know that candy bars are not good for you. Loaded with sugar […]
Adventures in Macro-Nutrient Land
When Alice fell down the rabbit hole, she found herself in a bewildering world where magic potions made her grow large or small, where school masters taught reeling […]
Caustic Commentary, Spring 2003
Banned in Boston. . . . . . and in all US schools and libraries. New internet filtering systems installed in US schools and libraries are designed to […]
Caustic Commentary, Winter 2002
Copper and Heart Disease While public health officials continue to promote lowfat diets and cholesterol-lowering statin drugs as the solution to heart disease, many other good theories go […]
Caustic Commentary, Fall 2002
New Enemy Now that the public has discovered that half of all heart attacks occur in individuals with “normal” or even low cholesterol levels, the American Heart Association […]
Teens Before Their Time
A recent feature article in Time Magazine reported on the disturbing increase in early puberty among girls in the US. According to a recent study reported in the […]
The Great Con-ola
Canola oil is “widely recognized as the healthiest salad and cooking oil available to consumers.” It was developed through hybridization of rape seed. Rape seed oil is toxic […]
Caustic Commentary, Summer 2002
More on Vitamin A The ongoing Nurses’ Health Study, a project of Walter Willett’s research group at Harvard University, has found an association of hip fractures with vitamin […]
Vitamin A Saga
Note: After reading this article, please also read the Vitamin A, Vitamin D and Cod Liver Oil: Some Clarifications section in our Cod Liver Oil Basics and Recommendations […]
Successful Breastfeeding … And Successful Alternatives
Breastfeeding is best. Breast milk is nature’s perfect food for babies. Breast milk contains special substances that give the growing baby immunity to infection and disease. Breastfeeding bonds […]
Caustic Commentary, Winter 2001
America on Parade What America Eats is the subject of a special issue of Parade Magazine (11/11/01). In it we learn that the average amount of time spent […]
Caustic Commentary, Fall 2001
Lack of Impulse Control One of the biggest growth industries these days is special schools and camps for “troubled youths.” The typical student suffers from hyperactivity, has a […]
Caustic Commentary, Summer 2001
The Scheme to Intervene The Federal government has issued draconian new guidelines for cholesterol-lowering to prevent heart disease. The guidelines are aimed at all Americans age 20 and […]
What Causes Heart Disease?
For almost forty years, the lipid hypothesis or diet-heart idea has dominated medical thinking about heart disease. In broad outlines, this theory proposes that when we eat foods […]
Reply to Bill Sardi
Published in The Townsend Letter, April 2001 In his October 2000 Guest Editorial in the Townsend Letter, Mr. Bill Sardi expresses surprise that the “greatest criticism of soy […]
Wise Choices, Healthy Bodies: Diet for the Prevention of Women’s Diseases
Wommen desyren to have sovreyntee —Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess And sovereignty they have achieved, in many fields. While barriers remain, women have taken their proper place […]
Vegetarianism: What the Science Tells Us
Health writers may denigrate animal foods with insouciance but, in fact, the scientific literature offers very little in the way of long-term studies on the value of a […]
Caustic Commentary, Winter 2000
Vitamin A and the Brain The most important conclusion of Dr. Price’s research is that the fat-soluble vitamins A and D are key to human development and optimal […]
Caustic Commentary, Fall 2000
The New Prohibition First it was raw milk, then it was raw juice, both now largely outlawed. Restaurants can no longer put raw egg yolks in Caesar dressing. […]
Splendor From the Grass
And I will send grass in thy fields for thy cattle, that thou mayest eat and be satisfied. — Deut 11:15 Before the industrialization of agriculture, cattle grazed […]
It’s the Beef
Myths & Truths About Beef With the exception of butter, no other food has been subjected to such intense demonization in recent years as red meat, particularly beef. […]
The Mediterranean Diet: Pasta or Pastrami?
The Mediterranean diet “is characterized by abundant plant foods (fruit, vegetables, breads, other forms of cereals, beans, nuts and seeds), fresh fruit as the typical daily dessert, olive […]
Caustic Commentary, Summer 2000
Vitamin D to the Rescue . . . Orthodox nutritionists concede that the body needs vitamin D to assimilate calcium but they tend to downplay other roles for […]
Caustic Commentary, Spring 2000
Hooray for Vitamin A! Confirmation of Dr. Price’s research turns up in the strangest places. On October 28, South African President Thabo Mbeki appeared on national television to […]
Smart Fats by Michael Schmidt
All Thumbs Book Reviews Smart Fats By Michael Schmidt, MD Review by Sally Fallon and Mary G. Enig, PhD What happens when you try to combine good science […]
Tragedy and Hype: Third International Soy Symposium
“Each year, research on the health effects of soy and soybean components seems to increase exponentially . . . Furthermore, research is not just expanding in the primary […]
Sad Changes in the Standard American Diet
Research on the current plague of heart disease and cancer has focused on dietary fats. Modern diet gurus assert that the Standard American Diet has become “richer” during […]
Caveman Cuisine
Lowfat diets, claim the pundits of medical orthodoxy, have been associated with good health and longevity throughout the globe and since the dawn of time. The research of […]
Guts and Grease: The Diet of Native Americans
The hunter-gatherer’s dinner is front page news these days. Drawing from the writings of Dr. Boyd Eaton and Professor Loren Cordain, experts in the so-called Paleolithic diet, columnists […]
Merrie Olde England
Pullets; Boiled capon; Shoulder of mutton; Veal roast; Boiled chickens; Rabbits roast; Shoulder of mutton roast; Chine of beef roast; Pasty of venison; Turkey roast; Pig roast; Venison […]
Food in China: Variety and Monotony
Many have wondered why Weston Price did not include the Oriental countries like China and Japan in his monumental studies; and what he would have discovered had he […]
Korean Beef
In today’s climate of political correctness, the food of Korea holds special interest. For while Korean cuisine is heavily influenced by China, it differs in one important respect […]
Thailand: Land of the Coconut
We hear a great deal these days about the presumed health benefits of Asian diets. China and Japan are presented as exemplars of “low-fat, high fiber, largely vegetarian” […]
Inside Japan: Surprising Facts About Japanese Foodways
Japan is presented to the American public as a nation benefitting from all the dietary paradigms deemed politically correct. Their diet is low in fat, high in carbohydrates, […]
Australian Aborigines: Living Off the Fat of the Land
Of all the peoples visited by Weston Price during his historic research expeditions of the 1930s, none elicited as much awe as the Australian Aborigines, whom he described […]
Be Kind to Your Grains … And Your Grains Will Be Kind To You
The science of nutrition seems to take a step backwards for every two steps it takes forward. When the study of vitamins was in its infancy, researchers realized […]
Lacto-Fermentation
It may seem strange to us that, in earlier times, people knew how to preserve vegetables for long periods without the use of freezers or canning machines. This […]
Edward Howell, MD
An important branch of twentieth-century nutritional research, running parallel to and equal in significance to the discovery of vitamins and minerals, has been the discovery of enzymes and […]
Stocks
A lamentable outcome of our modern meat processing techniques and our hurry-up, throwaway lifestyle has been a decline in the use of meat, chicken and fish stocks. In […]
Why Butter Is Better
When the fabricated food folks and apologists for the corporate farm realized that they couldn’t block America’s growing interest in diet and nutrition, a movement that would ultimately […]
The Skinny on Fats
Table of Contents Introduction The Lipid Hypothesis The “Evidence” Supporting the Lipid Hypothesis Studies that Challenge the Lipid Hypothesis Understanding the Chemistry of Fats Classification of Fatty Acids […]
Tripping Lightly Down the Prostaglandin Pathways
The mysterious and complex family of prostaglandins constitutes one of the most intriguing discoveries in the history of modern medicine. Discovered in 1936 by von Euler, prostaglandins derive […]
Vitamin Primer
Note: After reading this article, please also read the Vitamin D and Cod Liver Oil section in our Cod Liver Oil Basics and Recommendations article. The discovery of […]
Mineral Primer
As the remarkable properties of vitamins have revealed themselves to investigators, so too have those of the various minerals in our food and water. The seven macrominerals– calcium, […]
Dem Bones: Do High Protein Diets Cause Bone Loss?
Myths & Truths About Osteoporosis An estimated 15 to 20 million Americans suffer from osteoporosis–thinning of the bones leading to back pain, increased fractures, and frailty, frequently with […]
Out of Africa: What Dr. Price Dr. Burkitt Discovered in Their Studies of Sub-Saharan Tribes
Dr. Weston Price visited Africa in 1935. His journey into the interior began in Mombasa on the east coast of Africa, inland through Kenya to the Belgian Congo, […]
The Ploy of Soy
Commercial milk products have been linked to a number of disease conditions including allergies, asthma, arthritis, diabetes, auto immune diseases, childhood anemia, heart disease and cancer. Many have […]
