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Wise Traditions IN FOOD, FARMING AND THE HEALING ARTS A PUBLICATION OF THE WESTON A. PRICE FOUNDATION® Volume 17 Number 3 Fall 2016 CONTENTS FEATURES The Wise Traditions Pantry Page 50 Why We Need Carbs Page 14 Maureen Diaz navigates the Chris Masterjohn provides the science big box stores for including carbs in our diets Farm and Ranch Page 53 Recovery from a Low-Carb Diet Page 19 Hilda Gore shares her visit with Kim Schuette gives practical advice for Allan Savory in Zimbabwe recovery Homeopathy Journal Page 55 Is Sugar Addiction Real? Page 25 Joette Calabrese discusses homeopathic Tiffany Wright explains what sugar treatments for addictions does to the brain Technology as Servant Page 58 Salt Intake in the U.S. Page 30 Becky Plotner asks: should we wear Jack Cameron reveals why cutting back is not clothes made from plastic bottles? such a good idea WAPF Podcast Interview Page 61 Nutritional Yeast Page 40 Hilda Gore interviews Dickson Gisa in Kenya Norman Lemoine and Kayla Grossmann give us the basics on this superfood All Thumbs Book Reviews Page 66 Vaccination and Naturopathic Medicine My Beef with Meat Vegan Betrayal DEPARTMENTS Eat Right President’s Message Page 2 Wise Balance Tim's DVD Reviews Page 70 Tim Boyd looks at the latest offerings Letters Page 3 Legislative Updates Page 72 Caustic Commentary Page 7 Judith McGeary provides the latest news Sally Fallon Morell challenges the Diet Dictocrats A Campaign for Real Milk Page 78 Sally Fallon Morell on the raw milk debate at IAFP Reading Between the Lines Page 45 Merinda Teller looks at the connection Raw Milk Updates Page 81 between soy formula and autism Healthy Baby Gallery Page 85 Local Chapters Page 86 Shop Heard ‘Round the World Page 98 Membership Page 116 Upcoming Events Page 117 THE WESTON A. PRICE FOUNDATION® President’s Message Education Research Activism BOARD OF DIRECTORS Sally Fallon Morell, MA, President Kim Schuette, CN,Vice President Sarah Pope, Secretary Valerie Cury, Treasurer So many people think that the Wise Traditions diet advocated by Tom Cowan, MD Cherie Calvert the Weston A. Price Foundation is a high-protein, low-carb diet. True, Leslie Manookian we advocate the inclusion of animal protein in the diet and urge people Phil Ridley to avoid refined carbohydrates, but we have also consistently warned BOARD MEMBERS IN MEMORIAM Mary Enig, PhD, FACN, CNS about consuming too much protein; and we have never advocated cut- Nicholas Gonzalez, MD ting out all the carbohydrate foods. After all, most of the cultures Dr. Jerry Brunetti Price visited consumed some kind of complex carbohydrate—rye in the GENERAL COUNSEL Swiss Alps, oats on the Outer Hebrides, quinoa and potatoes in South James Turner, Esq. America, cassava in the South Seas. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Kathy Kramer Still, the perception persists that our bodies have no need for carbs— another myth that needs addressing. We do so in this issue, with an article HONORARY BOARD Jen Allbritton, BS, CN on why we need carbs by Chris Masterjohn, as well as a piece by Kim Naomi Baumslag, MD, MPH Marie A. Bishop, CDC Schuette on what she sees in her clinical practice when her patients try Joette Calabrese, HMC, CCH, RSHom(NA) to cut out all carbs. Natasha Campbell-McBride, MD Lee Clifford, MS, CCN So we do need some carbs in our diets—but this is not an invitation Christapher Cogswell, MA Monica Corrado to overdose on sugar and refined grains—as discussed by Tiffany Wright Janice Curtin in her article on sugar addiction. Katherine Czapp Eric Davis, BDSc, DAc, DCN The Wise Traditions diet is a wisely balanced diet. It includes ad- Maureen Diaz William Campbell Douglass, MD equate high-quality animal protein, lots of nutrient-dense fats and an Sara Bachman Ducey, MS, CNS individualized portion of properly-prepared grains and legumes, and James A. Duke, PhD Carol Esche, DNP, MA, RN, CAN cooked tubers and starchy vegetables. The amount of carbs you eat Mike Fitzpatrick, PhD Ruth Ann Foster, MA depends on your age, activity level and tendency to gain weight, but the Donna Gates, BS, Med danger of avoiding carbs altogether is low energy, low body temperature, Joann S. Grohman Suzanne Humphries, MD low libido, and just a general droopiness. Beatrice Trum Hunter, MA Mark A. Kastel We are not feeling low energy about our upcoming conference. We Fred Kummerow, PhD have included many back-to-the-basics talks, since our message will Felix Liao, DDS Sandrine Love be new to many participants. We will have tracks on food preparation; Kilmer McCully, AB, MD, MA (hon) Judith McGeary, Esq. fertility/pregnancy/healthy babies; men’s health; holistic dentistry; and Carlos Monteiro elder care. We will have more advanced tracks presented by popular Kenneth Fielding Morehead, DOM David Morris, BS, DC speakers Chris Masterjohn, Stephanie Seneff and Tom Cowan. Natasha Jill Nienhiser, BS, MA Sylvia Onusic, PhD, CNS, LDN Campbell-McBride will present her gut and psychology workshop on Kathryne Pirtle, BS, MA Friday. And we are proud to present Nina Tiecholz to give our keynote Jessica Prentice Bruce Rind, MD address, as well as presentations on men’s health and weight loss. Nina Sir Julian Rose, BT is the author of the excellent and influential book,The Big Fat Surprise, Julia Ross, MA Beverly Rubik, BS, PhD and has an abundance of information to share with us on the sordid his- Adrienne Samuels, PhD Pam Schoenfeld, MS, RD tory of animal fat demonization. Andreas Schuld The chef we are working with is first-class and is very excited to be Stephanie Seneff, BS, MS, EE, PhD C. Edgar Sheaffer, VMD preparing food for our attendees. There’s also a farm tour, a homeopathy Ted Spence, DDS, ND Alana Sugar, CN seminar, a workshop on adrenal “fatigue,” an all-day cooking class, and Beverly B. Teter, PhD, FACN, CNS a movement workshop on Monday. And don’t forget our wonderful child John Umlauf Susun S. Weed care program. In short, we are gearing up for another terrifice confer- David Wetzel, BS Bruce West, DC ence. See you there! Louisa L. Williams, MS, DC, ND Will Winter, DVM 2 Wise Traditions FALL 2016 Letters ON THE WISE TRADITIONS peppers, tomatoes, carrots, bananas, agreed to become a chapter leader for JOURNEY IN KENYA cassava and much more! Her harvest is WAPF in his village. I am convinced “I know and I promise that there so abundant that she has enough for her that he will navigate the u-turn well, will be a very huge u-turn for my own family and then some. Members of and will lead his Maasai brothers and community. We will be turning to her community often buy her surplus sisters toward better health. where we came from.” Dickson Gisa, food to sell at market. Back in Nairobi, I found more op- a leader in his Maasai village, spoke There were more promising signs portunities to spread the word about these words to me in a conversation in everywhere I went. On Saturday morn- WAPF. I addressed a group of Rotar- his home this past May. Dickson, you ing, the community’s youth group, com- ians from East Kenya at the Nairobi may remember, is the Kenyan who took prised of eighteen- to thirty-year-olds, Club. The Rotarians were intrigued by the initiative to contact the my message about wellness Weston A. Price Foundation through traditional diets and (WAPF) a few years ago. He promised that their next meet- had come across the WAPF ing would be over a more tra- Wise Traditions principles ditional meal. They peppered and they resonated with him me with questions and at the to such a degree that he asked end of my talk, they urged me WAPF to send someone to to become a Rotarian to gain a his community because, as broader audience around their he put it, “We are all getting country and the world. sick.” So WAPF honored his Later that week, I caught request, and in 2015, as part wind of an organic farm that of the WAPF international made weekly deliveries to the outreach program, they sent capital. I knew I had to visit Mary Gerke and me to his Hilda Gore with Kenyans interested in it. When I arrived at Mlango remote village in Matapato, the WAPF educational materials. Organic Farm, it seemed like Kenya, not far from the Tan- paradise to me. The glori- zania border. affirmed that they wanted to continue ous rainbow of vegetables covered This past May, I returned to Kenya the traditional foods “campaign.” That the hillside, which was green and and to Dickson’s community to follow afternoon, following a presentation, the lush—quite a contrast from dusty, dry up. There I was able to observe the pastor stood up and suggested that all Nairobi. A Kenyan, Kamande and his changes they had already implemented women present begin cooking tradi- Dutch wife Els established this farm in as a result of the previous year’s visit. tional foods again “starting now.” And 2007. At Mlango, they are committed Nowhere was this more evident than in the next morning at church, the pastor to organic, sustainable practices. They Dickson’s own home. In the past year, spoke of incorporating Wise Traditions use no chemical pesticides or synthetic his wife Joseline had given up her job principles into their church programs. fertilizers. Visitors to the farm can as a preschool teacher to cultivate an ex- There was general agreement, and a harvest a basketful of veggies for a flat tensive garden on their land.