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soy block absorption of minerals and and form little balls. Let them set, they youngest went through five years of
the trypsin inhibitors block production keep for a very long time and can also treatment for leukemia, I stumbled
of digestive enzymes. Consumption of be frozen. Add these marrow balls as a upon your work. I began to make
soy products may be related to cancer garnish to soups, traditionally wedding changes in how I shopped and cooked
of the pancreas and other cancers. Soy soups have marrow balls in them in for my family. I have not looked back!
was not and never will be a food our Germany. We are all well-nourished and healthy
body can healthfully utilize. Anita Reusch now and rarely get sick. We’ve been
Drinking soy milk, eating soy Eifel Chapter, Germany drinking raw milk for eight years now.
products and the “man boobs”—gyne- We love it!
comastia—that many of our teenage AMAZING CONFERENCE Brenda Veltman
boys experience are related. A search I know that putting together a Ada, Michigan
of Environmental Health Perspectives conference of the magnitude that you
brings up articles regarding the longer- all do, coupled with the amazing effort RAW MILK KEFIR
term consequences of feeding soy put into the menus and meals, must be Thank you for your timely articles
infant formula to male and female in- extremely labor-intensive and certainly in your journal. As a child, I had raw
fants. Soy products contain isoflavones, not lost on me. This last conference was milk until about six years of age, when
which are estrogenic and no matter how my first, and I found it so impressive we moved to a rural area. Our new
you spin it, these exogenous estrogens that I am not only looking forward to neighbors were not dairy farmers so
have no place in a child’s diet. I strongly the next with anticipation, but hope I we bought milk in the store until I was
applaud and support the vigilant efforts can attend every one in the future after about eighteen. At that time we started
of the Weston A. Price Foundation that, too! getting raw Jersey milk delivered and
and their members as a public service Paula Shaffer, LAc we started moving back to the old ways
in educating the consumer about the Hampstead, Maryland of preparing food—homemade butter,
dangers of soy products. grass-fed meats, etc.—although I was
Sylvia Onusic, PhD SCHOLARSHIPS still addicted to boxed cereals and pack-
Portage, Pennsylvania Thank you for the scholarships to aged snacks. I had lots of acne and dry
attend the Wise Traditions conference skin problems, low blood sugar and
BONE MARROW BALLS in Minneapolis. My husband and I difficult menstruation.
Thanks for another great issue of would never have had this opportunity Fast forward ten years. I am now
Wise Traditions. In reference to the without your financial support. I en- married with three children. I’ve added
article about bone marrow helping joyed volunteering for the farm class cod liver oil to our daily diet and am
leukemia patients (Winter, 2017), I and Robert took tickets at the meals. eating mostly gluten free. Now our nu-
would like to share my recipe for mar- We were both excited to learn so tritionist told us to go off dairy, except
row balls. Take four beef shank bones, much about food preparation and ag- for goat milk. So we got our own goat.
spoon out the marrow and melt it over riculture. I pray it will have an affect Well, goat’s milk did not taste good to
low heat. Strain off the cracklings on our small farming operation in the me, so I virtually quit drinking milk.
(they´re crunchy and tasty) and stir in future. As the fall months went on, I noticed
bread crumbs, until all the marrow is Mary Lou Witt I was increasingly fatigued, with fre-
soaked up, one cup and a half or so. Macksburg, Iowa quent headaches and very interrupted
The better quality the bread crumbs the sleep. My cycles were heavy with bad
tastier the balls. WE LOVE RAW MILK! moods. My five-year-old daughter was
Now season with salt, pepper, Your organization has changed our also very moody and needed daily naps
nutmeg, parsley and chives and let lives—we appreciate all you do! again, and her imaginative playing had
cool. Then add two to three egg yolks About ten years ago, after my disappeared.

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