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the opportunity to help set up Turrialba’s toes, ability to feel temperature, touch upper respiratory infection that just
organic farmers’ market more than four and discomfort, etc. In addition, I don’t wouldn’t quit. A friend had been nudg-
years ago, where every Saturday we sell have to visit the hospital at least twice ing your material under my nose, and
organic full-fat yogurt, raw milk and a year with life-threatening ailments, as because of this infection, I knew our
cheese from our grass-fed, free-range other paraplegics suffer regularly. diet had to change.
Jersey cows. On our 25-acre farm we I jumped on eatwild.com and
grow or raise organic chickens and eggs, Kristie Smith found three farms close to me that now
coffee, bananas, pineapples, turmeric, Olney, Illinois provide us with all of our meat, eggs and
ginger, oranges, cassava, malanga and dairy products. Within three months of
many other useful plants. We also consuming raw dairy products
make our own sourdough bread, and grass-fed meats, I was preg-
kefir, sauerkraut and our own soap nant. Unfortunately, we miscar-
simply made of lard, lye and water ried the first one, but within an-
to wash everything including hair. other year I was pregnant again.
In the past we have organized sum- I continued my farm-based diet
mer camps and right now are setting throughout the pregnancy, and
up to offer nutritional retreats. Benjamin was born on August 5,
I am from Haiti and wanted 2007, healthy, strong and beauti-
to share with you the fact that the ful. He is already enjoying cod
only girls in my school who had liver oil, homemade butter from
collapsed arches were those whose raw cream and farm fresh yogurt.
mothers had lived in the US for a All of his food is homemade, and
period of time. he enjoys the puréed grass-fed
meats from the farms. He is truly
Gina Baker ASSUMED INFERTILITY a Weston Price baby. And did I mention?
Turrialba, Costa Rica Thank you for all of the hard work He was born seven weeks before my
you do in communicating with mem- 45th birthday!
PROGRESS WITH WAPF DIET bers and lobbying for raw milk! I am a Holly Smith
I was in an accident ten years ago, customer of Pennsylvania farmer Mark Carlisle, Pennsylvania
rear-ended in a VW bus by a heavy-load Nolt, and I have first-hand evidence that
semi-truck driver who fell asleep. I was his work benefits our community. YELLOW FAT
given the diagnosis that I would never I was a ten-year vegetarian mostly I was interested in the letter about
feel or move again below heart level— because I refused to eat meat from yellow fat color in your most recent is-
complete paralysis. I practiced move- confined animals. About seven years sue. The vast majority of grassfed ani-
ment/breath/sound therapy for years and into my vegetarianism, I got married, mals harvested at less than three years
had a fairly healthy diet and used herbs, and my husband and I planned for a of age have white fat unless they have
but until I integrated the principles of baby. I was in my late thirties and after Jersey breeding in them. Just as Jerseys
the Weston A. Price diet into my life, I two heartbreaking years, we assumed have yellow milkfat, they also have yel-
made very little progress. infertility and adopted our wonderful low bodyfat.
Now I have recovered normal use of son Garrison from Guatemala. The prohibition against yellow fat
my organs; partial feeling and muscular When Garrison was about two was not to discriminate against grassfed
control in my lower body down to my years old, we all came down with an animals in general but against older

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