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         proper rotation of crops. This year two  very sturdy, tall and strong and on the  NATURAL MAGNESIUM
         hundred fifteen bushels of sweet pota-  top end of the growth chart, rather than     It seems that citric acid is every-
         toes were made per acre, with no other  the bottom, and scrawny and sickly,  where these days, even in nutritional
         fertilizer than the above compost.”   when my friend first got them. They are  supplements. I was taking the Natural
             Dr. Carver is well known for finding  also very bright, whereas before they  Calm  magnesium  powder  for  many
         hundreds of uses for the peanut, but this  were developmentally delayed.   years and recently noticed that citric
         booklet shows his creativity didn’t stop     But  here  is  the  strange  thing.  I  acid is a non-medical ingredient of this
         with peanut butter as it contains dozens  looked at their mouths and said, "Is it  product. Maybe that has something to
         of  creative  uses  for  sweet  potatoes,  just me, or are the girls’ jaws broader  do with my migraines?
         including over forty recipes. One for  now and their teeth are straight and     As Jack Samuels wrote in the Sum-
         sweet potato croquettes caught my eye.  even?"  Yep,  as  impossible  as  this  mer 2000 issue of  your  publication,
         You’d never see a recipe                                                        citric acid is everywhere and
         like this in a modern pub-                                                      it is becoming increasingly
         lication from the USDA                                                          difficult to stay MSG-free
         Ag  Extention  Service!                                                         since for many people, citric
         It  calls  for  two  cups  of                                                   acid acts just like MSG.
         cooked mashed sweet po-                                                              Please  advise  your
         tato to be combined with                                                        readers that they must read
         two  egg  yolks,  formed                                                        the labels on their supple-
         into croquettes and rolled                                                      ments  carefully  to  avoid
         in  more  egg  and  bread                                                       this most noxious chemical,
         crumbs, then fried “in hot                                                      which  passes  the  blood-
         lard to amber color. Serve                                                      brain barrier. As WAPF has
         on napkins.”                                                                    always said, it is best to get
                     Lee Burdett                                                         one’s nutrients from food.
              Altamonte Springs,                                                         In the case of magnesium, I
                         Florida                                                         will go back to drinking raw
                                            sounds, both girls now look like Weston  milk, eating raw kefir and eating Brazil
         DIET AND JAW SHAPE                 A. Price babies! My friend has been  nuts. All of these foods are loaded with
             I am friends with a woman who  giving them high-vitamin butter oil and  magnesium.
         chose to assist a young couple, both drug  fermented cod liver oil since they were           Julia Hattori
         users, who died over the course of a year.  seven months. She began feeding them     Toronto, Canada
         The autopsies revealed drug overdoses.  with egg yolks, raw butter (which they
             The parents had darling twins—  licked from the spoon), liver and raw
         they were age seven months when the  Jersey milk. When they feel sick they
         mother died and my friend got involved  even ask for the "burning" medicine,
         caring for them. My friend was able to  which is what they call the cod liver oil
         provide them with a good Christian      Thought I would share this, as there
         home and nourishing Weston A. Price  could be hope for babies who did not
         foods, and eventually adopted them.  receive the best of care in utero!      Gifts and bequests to the
         Both girls were cute, but they had ter-                  Susan Avery       Weston A. Price Foundation
         rible teeth and jaws.                                 Parker, Colorado    will help ensure the gift of good
                                                                                             health
             Recently, I took them all to our                                          to future generations.
         pool―the girls are now five years old,
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