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The Wise Traditions Diet
for Healthy Families

Good health begins with plants and animals raised in
healthy ways on mineral-rich soil; and with meats, eggs, milk
products, fish, grains, legumes, fruits and vegetables that are
packaged and processed in ways that preserve and enhance
their naturally occuring nutrients.
Good health also requires avoiding foods that are de-
void of nutrients or that can do us harm, foods like refined
sweeteners, industrial liquid vegetable oils, partially hydro-
genated vegetable oils, modern soy-based imitation foods
and additives like MSG, hydrolyzed protein and artificial
sweeteners, and by avoiding the overuse of white flour.
This booklet is designed to serve as a guide for shopping
in supermarkets and health food stores. We have provided
phone numbers or, when a phone number is not available,
Internet addresses for items available primarily by mail order.
General guidelines and specific brand names are listed for
each food category.
Foods found widely in stores are listed first in some
categories, followed by foods available through the Internet
and by mail order, or locally.
Use the guidelines to make wise choices from among
the brands available to you that are not listed specifically.
We also encourage you to avoid all processed foods and
fast foods and to prepare most of what you eat, including
children’s school lunches, in your own kitchen using the best
possible ingredients that you can find and afford.
The best rule is to eat foods that our traditional ancestors
ate, prepared in the way they prepared them. Look to the
elders in your communities for ancestral dietary wisdom.