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What’s the story behind the Weston A. Price Foundation? How did Sally Fallon Morell, the founder and head of the foundation, come across Dr. Price’s discoveries? What motivated her to write a cookbook based on his dietary principles? What would she ask Dr. Price if she had the chance? And how has her conception of what constitutes a good diet changed over the years?
In today’s episode, Sally answers the questions that you posed in recent weeks. She tackles, among other topics, how we can improve our diet and strengthen our immune system, how to deal with parasites, and how to best help our children develop strong, healthy bodies.
Sally is a wise, strong, and accomplished woman. You will be inspired by her spirit and gain perspective on what it means to embrace wise traditions.
Notes:
Sally Fallon Morell is a well-regarded speaker, author, and activist for real food. She established the Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) in 1999 and it has made a tremendous impact on thousands! In celebration of this milestone episode, we asked you to pose questions for Sally via social media and you stepped up! In today’s show, she covers everything from soup to nuts! She answers your questions in an informal and intimate setting. You will gain insights into who she is and why she is so passionate about food, farming, and the healing arts!
You will find out:
- how Sally came across the work of Dr. Weston A. Price
- how the book “Nourishing traditions” came about and how long it took her to write it
- Sally’s conception of what constitutes a good diet
- the importance of arachidonic acid
- how science has validated the 11 principles of the Wise Traditions diet
- what Sally would ask Dr. Price if she met him face to face
- her thoughts on where the wise traditions cherished by indigenous people came from
- the theory on why Native Americans died of disease, even though they ate their traditional diets
- what to do to increase the amount of iodine in your diet
- parasites: how you may get them, how to get rid of them
- why agave can’t really be considered a “natural” sweetener
- the advantages of honey and maple syrup
- what to do to make up for dietary deficiencies
- what to do if your baby doesn’t like runny egg yolk(one of the first foods WAPF recommends)
- why WAPF doesn’t recommend chocolate or coffee
- the benefits of raw milk
- the four-legged stool that is the foundation for your children’s good health
Resources:
Article on iodine (with info on Lugol’s solution)
Bringing up baby series on Sally’s blog site
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Listening to Sally’s thoughts on why so many native Americans died of smallpox (bedbugs in the blankets & isolation of the victims rather than trying to help them and an unprepared immune system) I was reminded of the idea I got from reading thru these WAPF articles (or was it Adelle Davis) that even a small amount of poor food can wreck the progress of a person in recovery from illness or bad health. Was there something, grains or flour products, from ‘whiteman’s’ stores, or something else, that 2/3rds or more of native Americans were using? Was there some ‘food’ ftom the Frontier stores that most Natives traded for that harmed their gut, the seat of immunity?
Also was thinking that the so-called small pox epidemic that killed so many natives could have been an early example of biological warfare, even if it was only the acceptance of some items of junk food even in small amounts from frontier stores. If the Natives took the blankets why not also the food, probably even in some of the most remote areas?
I have been wondering about that for years & hadn’t heard of the bed bug problem & was thinking along other lines – the uneducated immunity line & the gut impaired from something line.
On iodine, just one thing. Iodine, as Lugol’s 5%, much more than 1mg/day is needed to counteract environmental poisons-toxins such as radiation, bromine-fluorine-chlorine in everything. But not without sufficient dietary minerals – which we all lack & can only come from seafoods. Lately I’m going to wildcaught seafoods & fish broth more & more since other quality animal products (fats, bones, organ meats) are so hard or impossible to come by & even then often deficient.
A local health food store owner who sells her own animal products (not grass fed) when I asked for fat, kidney, bones, organ meats, repeats that ‘the butcher’ throws all that away or some other excuse. And when asked about dairy from brown cows (Jersy, guernsey) hands me this Brown Cow brand yogurt. So wild caught fish for me.
Very few people can go to anywhere near the lengths I have gone over the last 48 years to learn about & find real foods. Few can regularly travel even 30 miles round trip to find a quality farmer. So what can they do? Wild caught seafood is right at hand even here in what I call Death Valley (State College) central Pennsylvania.
The same store owner I mentioned above, has the excuse that it is illegal to have the butcher give her the fat from her own animals. I also have been treated very coldly there after asking for chicken feet.