Weston Price Mike's grain articles.

[Guest guest]

Hello Shell,

 

I do not agree with everything in the articles on the Weston

Price web site. I recommend a raw food vegetarian diet. I also

recommend a raw vegan diet, but only if the person has done a great

deal of research on the diet. I feel that a large amount of time

needs to be done researching the raw vegan diet for one to be

successful and healthy on it. Many vegans do not research or read

about the diet and they lose their health.

 

The information on the Weston Price website is very well

researched. I highly recommend reading Weston Price's

masterpiece " Nutrition and Physical Degeneration " . I learned about

the work of Price when I read the book " How We Heal " by Doug

Morrison, info on this book:

http://www.d-w-m.com/hwh.htm

Doug Morrison is a huge fan of Weston Price and he has included a

chapter about " Nutrition and Physical Degeneration " in his book.

 

He wrote a little bit about Price and Francis Pottenger halfway

down this page, read this before dismissing anything!

http://www.d-w-m.com/diet.htm

 

Shell, you wrote

" I automaticly dismiss anything written by a group who

are trying to flog things. "

 

I am not sure what you mean by this. How is the Price-Pottenger

nutrition Foundation trying to flog things? I'm not sure what flog

means, the dictionary says it means " 1. ... to criticize harshly

2 : to force or urge into action : DRIVE

3 a chiefly British : to sell (as stolen goods) illegally "

 

Please do not automatically dismiss all the information because

they recommend eating raw animal products! There is good information

on these sites. Almost ALL native indigenous tribal people living

their traditional life-styles eat animal products. Price travelled

around the whole world and he could not find any healthy vegan groups

of people. His research is incredible and I do not think anyone

should automatically dismiss his work. The traditional diets of

almost all cultures include animal products, and Sally Fallon's

book " Nourishing Traditions " goes into great detail to describe what

foods were included in these diets.

 

Traditional diets contain the nutrients to build strong, healthy,

disease-free people with perfect teeth and perfect bone structure.

Many traditional diets include properly prepared grains, and many

include meat.

 

One thing that the Price-Pottenger foundation taught me:

'When Price analyzed traditional diets, he " found these foods to be

very rich in fat soluble vitamins A and D -- nutrients only found in

animal fats. " {from http://www.d-w-m.com/diet.htm }

 

I find a vegan diet controversial because of this statement. There

is more info on this in these articles:

http://www.westonaprice.org/vitamins/nutrition_vitaminD.html

http://www.westonaprice.org/vitamins/vitaminasaga.html

" The Miracle of Vitamin D " and " Vitamin A Saga "

 

I will address another statement you make Shell, you wrote

" ... and even held up the meat industry as good for the

environment, ... "

 

I assume you mean this article:

http://www.westonaprice.org/nutrition_guidelines/ethicsmeat.html

" The Ethics of Eating Meat " by Charles Eisenstein

 

This article does NOT support the meat industry!!! It attacks the

meat industry. It supports meat-eating, and it supports traditional

farms where the animals are treated well. It supports traditional

ways of raising animals for food, which are environmentally

sustainable and healthy. Again, I do not recommend meat, but this is

a very good article comparing factory farms with small traditional

family farms. This is a great article which may help vegetarians feel

compasion and love towards our friends who eat meat! Before reading

this article, I would feel a " holier than thou " attitude towards my

meat-eating friends. Now I just encourage them to eat meats from

local organic environmentally friendly farms.

 

Properly prepared grains can be healthy and the Price-Pottenger

Nutrition Foundation has a large amount of valuable information!

Thanks for reading, have a great day!

 

Mike

 

rawfood , " Andy & Shell " <andy.mich@n...> wrote:

> Hi Mike,

> Thanks very much for posting the articles below, I was very

grateful for

> all the reading material. However, although I am hoping to find

that grains

> are healthy to eat, I was not convinced by anything I read here. I

> automaticly dismiss anything written by a group who are trying to

flog

> things. I was thrilled with the piece by Weston A Price, but, when

I read

> other articles on the site, which slammed vegetarianism as an

unhealthy diet

> and promoted eating large quantities of meat and even held up the

meat

> industry as good for the environment, I lost faith in the other

information

> on the site. However, thanks very much for an interesting read.

> Love Shell.

>

>

> -

> " Mike " <snyder68@h...>

> > Hello Peter,

> >

> > Grains are perfectly okay for humans to eat, IF they are

prepared

> > properly. If they are not prepared properly, they will destroy

ones

> > health. Check out these wonderful articles on the subject:

> >

> > http://www.westonaprice.org/foodfeatures/be_kind.html

> > " Be Kind To Your Grains and They Will Be Kind To You " By Sally

Fallon

> >

> > http://www.agmfoods.com/diet_body/digestibility_grains.htm

> > http://www.d-w-m.com/agm.htm

> > http://www.westonaprice.org/modernfood/wheatyindiscretions.html

> > http://www.agmfoods.com/diet_body/bread_history.htm

> > http://www.agmfoods.com/diet_body/loafing_around.htm

> > http://www.westonaprice.org/modernfood/toxinstoast.html

> > http://www.grainfields.ca/brilliant-simplicity.shtml

> > (Grainfields food contains properly prepared grains)

> > http://www.topica.com/lists/howweheal/read/message.html?

> > mid=805282148 & sort=d & start=49

> >

> > Properly prepared grains are the staff of life!

> > Enjoy the articles!

> >

> > Mike