Nourishing Traditional Diets
Hilda Gore: I’m your host Hilda Labrada Gore. And today our guest is the president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Sally Fallon Morell. Sally’s book Nourishing Traditions came out in 1996 and has...
View ArticleWhole Grain Einkorn Sourdough
Two and one-half years ago I began my quest to make the best loaf of sourdough bread for my family. My daughter was suffering from multiple sinus infections. A year after placing her on the GAPS diet...
View ArticleCaustic Commentary, Summer 2016
STRANGE LOGIC In an effort to counter declining sales, the giant food processor Nestlé is interested in “tapping into an estimated $15 billion market for prescription-based powders and drinks intended...
View ArticleThe Scarlet Nutrient
The Unfair Stigmatization of Vitamin A If you take a prenatal vitamin, look on the label to see whether it contains vitamin A (some brands actually don’t contain any vitamin A), it will probably...
View ArticleIn Pursuit of Healthy Fertility Via Fertility Awareness
A wise man once said: Before you can hope to change things, you must first understand the way things are. Since beginning almost forty years ago as a fertility awareness or natural family planning...
View ArticleRecovery from the Birth Control Pill & Other Hormonal Contraceptives
Since its release in the early sixties, the birth control pill has been surrounded by concern and controversy. While over three hundred million women worldwide have at some point employed the pill due...
View ArticleHPV Vaccines – Why, oh why, are they on the market at all?
Merck’s Gardasil, the first vaccine for human papillomavirus (HPV) was introduced in 2006 in the USA. Not long thereafter, GlaxoSmithKline introduced Cervarix. HPV is a virus that causes genital warts...
View ArticleCalming Behavior in Children with Autism and ADHD
The Electromagnetic Radiation-Lowering Protocol In 2012, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) found that one in 88 children had autism. Two years later, in March 2014, the CDC’s...
View ArticleZika and the Rush to Judgement
Reading Between the Lines Not infrequently, individuals who assertively proclaim that “the science” and “the facts” buttress their position on a given topic do so with the intention of shutting down...
View ArticleIs Glyphosate Legal?
It is springtime and farmers are applying millions of pounds of the world’s most common herbicide to the agricultural land in the United States. This year the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency...
View ArticleA Life Unburdened With Richard Morris
Hilda Labrada Gore: Our guest today is Richard Morris, author of A Life Unburdened, a man who unsuccessfully tried diet after diet for weight loss. At one juncture Richard weighed over four hundred...
View ArticleCaustic Commentary, Fall 2016
THEY ARE ALL SAFE An interesting study on cod liver oil has come to our attention. In the double-blinded randomized controlled study, subjects were given capsules containing highly oxidized cod liver...
View ArticleWhy We Need Carbs
One of the lessons that comes across most clearly from the studies that Weston Price documented in Nutrition and Physical Degeneration is that, although traditional diets all emphasized nutrient-dense...
View ArticleRecovery from a Low-Carb Diet
As with many aspects of life, extremes can be a challenge. Balance of nutrients is an important key for vibrant health. There is no question that those who have grown up on a diet high in refined...
View ArticleSalt Intake in the U.S.
CDC Advocating a Dangerous Reduction On June 1, 2016, U.S. health officials announced a new set of recommendations regarding the salt content of processed foods. The stated goal is to help Americans...
View ArticleNutritional Yeast
Harnessing the Nutrients for Modern Use Yeast microbes may be the earliest domesticated organisms. Since very early times humans have used yeasts for fermentation, one of the oldest and most successful...
View ArticleFeeding Your Family Well From the Big Box Stores
I have spent many years watching over my own family’s health and well-being while also promoting the message of good health to the community that surrounds me. With great diligence I have worked to...
View ArticleOnly Livestock Can Save Us
This spring I was privileged to visit the Africa Centre for Holistic Management (ACHM) in Zimbabwe, and spend several days with Allan Savory, the pioneer and guru of holistic management and managed...
View ArticleCould Your Clothes be Damaging Your Health?
Susan is five; she is sick with a high temperature and snuggled tightly in her fleece pajamas under a warm fleece blanket. Her curls are stuck to her temples from sweat. Her mom sits at her bedside...
View ArticleInterview With Dickson Ole Gisa
Hilda Gore: As part of the Weston A. Price Foundation’s international outreach, we’ve been visiting in Oiti in the region of Matapato in Kenya near the Tanzanian border. Dickson Ole Gisa has been an...
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