Stay Well: Misinformation? The Facts Revealed By Elizabeth Shelley

Stay Well: Misinformation? The Facts Revealed
By Elizabeth Shelley
Independently Published (United Kingdom)

In this information-rich yet compact compilation of her own articles, titled with a cliché, Elizabeth Shelley masterfully succeeds in conveying the WAPF principles and tenets in less than two hundred pages.

Discussing the population’s slide into physical degeneration, Shelley starts with comments about consumption of the “white loaf”—“not even fit to give away”—instead of “real bread.” Her perspective closely aligns with Dr. Weston Price’s principles, but she also credits many other wise voices that have echoed the same wisdom; in reading, I lost count of how many. One of them, a Dr. Yellowlees, liked to visit his patients at mealtimes, as there was “no better way of knowing what a sick person eats.” How many of us can relate to that statement?

Shelley provides a schematic that is the best intestinal depiction of diverticulosis (by one Dr. Frone) that I have seen thus far. Every clinic exam room should have a flow chart that shows how important it is to avoid constipation to prevent diseases of all sorts—plus a Bristol stool chart (which was not a part of any nursing class I took).

Shelley’s stance on cholesterol will not be news to any bona fide WAPF follower. Interestingly, she posits that the low-cholesterol diets recommended for pregnant women result in a “thalidomide fetal response.” She also dubs diabetes a “gold mine” for processed food companies, pharma and even transplant teams. Commenting on obesity, she describes how the appetite is “deceived with unnatural concentrations” and suggests that if we consume appropriate foods at their natural “dilution,” we can expect our appetite to regulate our intake.

Shelley also condemns as “medical procrastination” the medical community’s non-use of vitamin C, linking needless sepsis deaths to this euphemistic construct. As for aggression in today’s youth, she suggests that chemical precipitation of testosterone surges combined with sugar results in mineral deficiencies that are as volatile as striking matches to nitroglycerin and gunpowder!

Stay Well closes with Shelley’s discussion of grasslands and forests, as well as an SOS to “Save our Soils” and a few other important things. I didn’t think any book could be so concise yet so complete, but she accomplishes this feat. To prevent this review from being longer than the book, I will close. Suffice to say that you will learn something new if you read this book. And you will know just the person (or people) who need to read it afterwards. Two thumbs up for sure!

This article appeared in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts, the quarterly journal of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Summer 2024

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