Dec 19, 2018
Sally Fallon Morell is the
director and co-founder of the Weston A. Price Foundation. She’s
spent the last 20 years doing amazing work to promote the wise
traditions of our ancestors and their farming, preparation, and
consumption of foods. She’s written many amazing books such as
Nourishing Traditions, Eat Fat, Lose Fat, and a new Book called
Nourishing Diets. I really value all that she’s done and continues
to do.
I’ve come to realize my ideal
diet is the one the Weston A. Price Foundation recommends minus the
grains, even though they are safe if you prepare them properly as
Sally mentions. I’d prefer to run on fat and most people listening
probably know the vast benefits of doing this. I want to highlight
that they can be safe to eat if you soak them overnight, etc. so if
you choose to eat these foods at least do it properly.
You may have noticed I’m getting
all kinds of people on the show. I don’t want to be totally one
sided. I’ll let people share their differing opinions and not argue
with them. That doesn’t mean I support their stance. Dr. David
Klurfeld, Layne Norton - let’s hear what they have to
say.
I think it would be a disservice
to just keep getting people on the show who 100% agree with me. You
have to be open to all sides so you’re not caught being dogmatic
just like vegans and only look at things from one angle or miss the
truth because your head is in the sand. All I’m after is truth, and
will change my views if necessary. So far, nothing has shaken my
belief that we need to eat nutrient dense ancestral diets with a
lot of animal fat. I believe it’s better to run on fat, and most
carbs are pretty worthless because they don’t have a lot of
nutrients for how much energy they have. You can get the same
nutrients that properly sprouted and fermented grains have
elsewhere.
People doing carnivore. Listen
to the teachings of Dr. Price. Eat the whole animal. So much of the
good stuff is in the bits and pieces. You can point to many
populations over time eating mostly all or even 100% animal foods
for long periods or life, and I agree with you, but they weren’t
eating only muscle meat.
I think the best diet out there
is basically what Tara Couture, my last podcast guest who’s a
homestead farmer, feeds her family. The full animal plus fermented
veg and other fresh grown veg thrown in. Add in some more exotic
foods such as fish eggs, avocado, mushrooms, and coconut oil. You
can’t get more nutrient dense and less potentially harmful than
that.
This was our last film tour and
we’re now actively engaged in post-production for Food Lies. All
the T-shirts and rewards are being sent out shortly. You can still
pre-order the film and get the other rewards at Indiegogo.com/projects/food-lies-post
which is linked here in the show
notes and at FoodLies.org where you can also see the film trailer. Thanks
so much for the support and here’s Sally.
Show Notes
- Just
got back from filming with her on her farm in southern
Maryland
- They
mimic nature with regenerative and holistic farming practices and
produce raw milk and raw cheese, etc.
- It’s
strange that we need an entire organization just help re-educate
people on how we have always eaten. It’s an uphill battle with a
ton of opposition
- Rotational grazing mimics the grazing and
movement of ruminants throughout history
- Weston A. Price foundation validates
traditional farming and eating practices with modern
science
- Demonization of saturated fats
- Procter & Gamble and the cottonseed oil and
Crisco story - they were experts at marketing to housewives of the
time
- Vegetable oils might be worse than trans
fat
- For
all of history humans prized animal fat
- It’s
insane to give kids skim milk
- Dr.
Price found that different culture all over the world had similar
practices of a nutrient dense animal food diet 6 months prior to
conception
- Vegetarian diet 2014 UK study: “our results
showed that a vegetarian diet is associated with poorer health
(higher incidences of cancer, allergies, and mental health
disorders), a higher need for health care, and poorer quality of
life.”
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0088278&type=printable
- Tooth
health is a great indicator of overall health
- Wide
dental arches and face and not needing braces is a sign of good
nutrition from pre-conception through the growth phase
- Our
ancestors built up their vitamin A stores well ahead of becoming
pregnant by eating organ meats, animal fat, butter, egg yolks,
etc.
- The
heart starts growing before the women even knows she’s
pregnant
- Prenatal vitamins aren't bioavailable - you
need to get the full nutrition from the food you eat
- The
foundation has seen so many examples of healthy, strong, smart,
attractive babies born from eating this nutrient dense
diet
- Some
of his other studies and observations of kids in youth detention
facilities and where he gave different groups of low income kids
one nutritious meal per day of beef stew and cod liver oil with
really good grass fed butter
- When
displacing foods of modern civilization came in (sugar, flour,
canned foods, vegetable oils) the first thing that happened was
rampant tooth decay. The next generation had the narrow jaws and
crooked teeth
- People on the traditional diet didn’t get
tuberculosis
- He
studied the level in vitamins in butter compared to when the cows
were on the best grass compared to heart attack rates
- He
also presented data showing the level of minerals in the soil and
the correlation to PhDs - the areas that people were born and
raised with the most fertile soil produced far more
doctors
- Her
new book is called Nourishing Diets and it looks at what
populations around the world really ate throughout history. Of
course none of them were vegan or vegetarian - they all highly
cherished and regarded animal foods
https://www.amazon.com/Nourishing-Diets-Ancestral-Traditional-Peoples/dp/1538711680
- Crushes the original Blue Zones book that tried
to claim many long living populations were plant based
- He
actually lied - there’s studies showing all the people who got more
animal foods and animal fat lived longer than people who
didn’t
- She
has an article about each one of the 5 blue zones refuting the
original author:
-
http://nourishingtraditions.com/true-blue-zones-okinawa/
-
http://nourishingtraditions.com/true-blue-zones-sardinia
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http://nourishingtraditions.com/true-blue-zones-ikaria-greece/
-
http://nourishingtraditions.com/true-blue-zones-loma-linda/
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http://nourishingtraditions.com/true-blue-zones-costa-rica/
- The
China Study is also oft cited by vegetarian zealots. That was a
very poorply done study and actually the authors said it was not to
be used to draw conclusions from or show causation… although that’s
exactly what vegan propagandist T. Colin Campbell did
- She
says grains were actually being cultivated before we thought. BUT
all the cultures knew to detoxify them by soaking and fermenting
them
- Eating a bunch of whole grains caused a ton of
problems in modern society like gluten intolerance, leaky but,
SIBO, IBS, and much more. THere’s so many anti-nutrients in grains,
humans aren't meant to digest them
- No
whole foods are excluded on the Weston A. Price diet. It’s all
about the context and preparation of your food
- A
little know fact is that brushing your teeth isn't the biggest
factor in tooth decay - it’s actually your diet. Obviously these
non-westernized cultures throughout history didn't have toothpaste,
toothbrushes, and flouride, yet they all had near-perfect
teeth
- How
the nutrient diet of our ancestors affects jaw
development
- Anecdotally, her parents both had perfect teeth
(raised on butter and animal fat), her and her 3 siblings all
needed braces (raised on vegetable oils), and all her children and
grandchildren have great teeth (went back to butter and animal
fats)
- Her
daughter has a gluten intolerance because she got too many whole
grains too early in life. For her later children she waited and
they’re all fine
- Why
raw milk is considered harmful (even though it is what we should be
consuming)
- It’s
funny to see all this new enthusiasm for bone broth and fermented
foods when Dr .Price and the foundation have known about it all
along
- The
future is in small artisan producers of these foods - it doesn’t
take a lot of capital to start up
- The
new generation is already heading this way - they don’t want to
work for big corporations
- Technology got us away from our roots but it
has the potential to help us get back
- They set up http://rawmilk.com
- Become a member or find out more at http://westonaprice.com
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