The Reproductive Microbiome and Fertility Loredana Shapson provides a missing piece to the infertility puzzle Play Audio
The Hidden Terrain Collapse Behind Prostate Disease Ron Bazar on the prostate-terrain link Play Audio
The Alexander Technique Rosslyn McLeod explains the benefits of this mind-body re-education method Play Audio
Bone Marrow Janine Farzin explores the benefits of one of Nature’s most neglected superfoods Play Audio
DEPARTMENTS
- President’s Message: The Family Meal (see below)
- Letters: Letters to the Editor of Wise Traditions
- Caustic Commentary: Sally Fallon Morell takes on the Diet Dictocrats Play Audio
- All About Vitamin A Pam Schoenfeld on why breastfeeding mothers and babies need real vitamin A Play Audio
- Reading Between the Lines Merinda Teller praises slow fashion Play Audio
- Homeopathy Journal Desirée Brazelton outlines ten tried-and-true remedies for home use
- The Wise Traditions Pantry Cristina MacArthur celebrates oats as ancient wisdom
- WAPF Podcast Interview Alexandra Muñoz on the pesticide company pursuit of a liability shield
- All Thumbs Book Reviews
- Vaccination Updates Kendall Nelson takes stock of RFK Jr.’s first year at HHS Play Audio
- A Campaign for Real Milk:
- Healthy Baby Gallery: More Wise Traditions babies!
President’s Message
Isn’t it interesting how dietary crusades come and go? For years we kept hearing that fat was bad, and that a healthy diet was low in protein, salt and especially animal fats, but high in carbs and fiber. Today, the carnivore and keto folks insist that carbs are bad a n d that a healthy diet contains mostly meat and seafood (with eggs and cheese allowed). Banned foods include all fruits and vegetables; grains, nuts and seeds; milk and yogurt; honey and natural sweeteners; and even sour drinks like kombucha.
We’ve also heard suggestions that we should eat according to our blood type or our metabolic type; or survive on raw juices; or eat diets based largely on rice.
What all of these schemes do is undermine the tradition of family meals. Try eating according to the dietary guidelines, the kids will be craving salty fatty fast food; serve your teenagers a keto diet and they will crave carbohydrates. A blood-type or metabolic type diet is impossible for family meals unless everyone in the family has the same blood type or metabolic type. And who wants to sit down to raw juices or a rice-heavy diet evening after evening?
Why family meals? This is a sacred time when the family comes together. Children learn the art of conversation, not to mention table manners. Parents hear things about their children’s lives while children get to know their parents as participants in the larger world. But most of all the family meal is an opportunity to share delicious, satisfying, nutritious food…that your children will actually eat!
That usually looks like the old formula of meat, vegetable and starch, with plenty of butter on the veggies and a broth-based gravy or sauce on the meat and starch, with a spoonful or two of raw sauerkraut to feed your gut microbiome and support good digestion. A soup or salad can come before the main meal if you are feeling ambitious, with an occasional dessert made with natural sweeteners. Everyone should come away from the table happy and satisfied.
The beauty of the Wise Traditions diet is that it does not exclude any food group or force you into unnatural dietary patterns of renunciation. All of our principles can be incorporated into foods that your children will like and meals patterned after the way our grandparents ate.
At Wise Traditions 2025, our big WAPF family sat down to five delicious meals together to share what we learned from the many fascinating speakers. We are already planning for 2026, putting together meals featuring foods from local producers and a roster of speakers to satisfy our curiosity and nourish our minds.
The place is the historic Omni-Shoreham Hotel in Washington, DC, and the dates are October 16-18. Mark your calendars!
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