Traditional Fermented Fish Products
Fermented foods currently comprise approximately one-third of the human diet globally. In traditional diets, cereal grains, dairy products, fruits, vegetables, meats, seafood and fish are all fermented...
View ArticleWeed ‘Em or Weep: Safe Alternatives to Herbicides
After my earlier columns focusing on the hazards of chemical herbicides, a number of readers asked the simple and reasonable question, “So what are the alternatives?” While I cannot offer firsthand...
View ArticleConstant Controversy
Cod Liver Oil and Our Changing Food Paradigms Cod liver oil—what is it? That stinky stuff kids had to take on a spoon? A magic medicine that heals rheumatism, clears the scrofula of TB and helps...
View ArticleFermented Fish Foods
Traditional Fermented Fish Products Fermented foods currently comprise approximately one-third of the human diet globally. In traditional diets, cereal grains, dairy products, fruits, vegetables,...
View ArticleCaustic Commentary, Winter 2015
Sally Fallon Morell takes on the Diet Dictocrats CONTENTS: MORE EFFICIENT A HARD THEORY A HUNT FOR A CURE NO SEX REQUIRED CANE OR BEETS? THE K WORD IN THE PRESS! K2 FOR CANCER SEISMIC SHIFT SOMETHING...
View ArticleThe Fourth Phase of Water
Implications for Energy and Health Why do sprained ankles swell within seconds? Why do your joints operate without squeaking? Can drinking water supply energy? Is water merely another kind of food? How...
View ArticleSewage in a Glass?
Technologies for Cleaner, Safer Water You may be thinking, “I have very good water at my home. I go to my kitchen faucet and fill my glass with water that is cool, crystal clear and colorless, with no...
View ArticleWater Stressors and Blood Flow
Why You Don’t Want to Put Aluminum into Your Bloodstream How does liquid behavior at healthy cell surfaces affect critical functions in living cells? Do recently discovered physical properties of water...
View ArticleReading Between the Lines
Nutrition Updates by Merinda Teller, MPH, PhD Red Meat: The Food They Love to Hate In late October 2015, one of the nutrition establishment’s most cherished villains—red meat—hit the newsstands again...
View ArticleAvoiding Glyphosate in Feminine Hygiene Products
Some startling news interrupted and superseded my original plans for this column with its urgency: a recent Argentinian study has found glyphosate in tampons.1 Now, this news in itself, while galling,...
View ArticleA WAPF Visit to Kenya
In many respects, all who embrace the WAPF principles are walking in Dr. Price’s footsteps. We believe that natural, unprocessed foods are nourishing and life-giving. We believe that the wisdom from...
View ArticleTeaching Traditional Organic Food and Farming Systems
The teaching of traditional dietary principles was very important to Weston A. Price as reflected in his final words, “You teach, you teach, you teach.” And so it is appropriate that his classic work,...
View Article2015 Wise Traditions Conference Annual Guided Farm Visit
Fifty-four people joined the adventure this year on our eighth annual guided farm visit with speaker Will Winter, DVM. 5 BAR BEEF (5barbeef.com) As Frank Fitzpatrick rode up to greet us, our group got...
View ArticleAs the Cholesterol Consensus Crumbles, the Stance Against Saturated Fat Softens
In the last year, we have seen the consensus against cholesterol shatter and crumble before our eyes. The consensus against saturated fat has remained strong, but in the last week we have seen it begin...
View ArticleCaustic Commentary, Spring 2016
Sally Fallon Morell takes on the Diet Dictocrats Contents: HYPED-UP VIRUS PANIC LOW-CARB FOR DIABETICS A WARNING FROM RUSSIA LETTUCE OR BACON? WRONG ABOUT VEGANISM GROTESQUE GARDASIL CRUSADE MORE ON...
View ArticleFolic Acid and Glyphosate
Synergistic Toxicity Neural tube defects (NTDs), such as spina bifida, anencephaly and exencephaly, are severe birth defects that result from failure of neural folds closure during embryonic...
View ArticleSaturated Fat Does a Body Good
Exploring the Biological Roles of These Long-Demonized Yet Heroic Nutrients Since the rise of the diet-heart hypothesis in the 1960s, the idea that saturated fat is the “bad fat” has dominated the...
View ArticleWired Help for the Modern Home: Favorite Kitchen Tools
Technology as Servant The traditional home kitchen was always a busy place: hauling water, stacking wood, stoking the fire in the cookstove, fermenting, curing, preserving, chopping, grinding,...
View ArticleLead in the Water: Flint’s Cautionary Tale
Reading Between the Lines Nutrition Updates by Merinda Teller, MPH, PhD Historians may disagree about the extent to which the decline of the Roman Empire can be attributed to lead poisoning, but it is...
View ArticleReport on Cod Liver Oil
Testing the Safety and Vitamin Content of our Number One Superfood Cod liver oil serves an important function in modern diets since it provides a convenient source of vitamins A and D. When Dr. Weston...
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