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Wise Traditions IN FOOD, FARMING AND THE HEALING ARTS A PUBLICATION OF THE WESTON A. PRICE FOUNDATION® Volume 13 Number 3 Fall 2012 CONTENTS FEATURES All Thumbs Book Reviews Page 53 Synergies Page 15 Deep Nutrition Chris Masterjohn, PhD, explains how Herbal Antibiotics nutrients work together Prepared Family Guide to Uncommon Diseases How Statin Drugs Really Lower Cholesterol California's Ancient Cornucopia Page 30 Living as Nature Intended M. Kat Anderson and Jennifer House describe The Starch Solution the fascinating dietary habits of California Indians The Emperor's New Drugs Save Your Bacon Page 38 Tim's DVD Reviews Page 66 Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, gives us the inside Tim Boyd reviews the latest videos scoop on this gateway meat Food Feature Page 69 Dori Oliver on flavored kombucha DEPARTMENTS President’s Message Page 2 Soy Alert Page 73 Real Food Kaayla Daniel, PhD, on fake, soy-based bacon Letters Page 3 Legislative Update Page 75 Judith McGeary, Esq, on the farm bill Caustic Commentary Page 11 and other legislative concerns Sally Fallon Morell challenges the Diet Dictocrats A Campaign for Real Milk Page 80 Mark McAfee on the role of the From the Archives Page 47 Raw Milk Institute A 1928 article describes how a high-fat diet protects against tooth decay Raw Milk Updates Page 85 Homeopathy Journal Page 50 Healthy Baby Gallery Page 87 Joette Calabrese describes a remedy Local Chapters Page 89 for bad behavior Shop Heard ‘Round the World Page 103 Membership Page 128 Upcoming Events Page 129 101665_text.indd 1 9/20/12 11:28 AM THE WESTON A. PRICE President’s Message FOUNDATION ® Education Research Activism BOARD OF DIRECTORS Sally Fallon Morell, MA, President and Treasurer Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN, Vice President Science looks at the individual nutrients and components of food, Geoffrey Morell, ND, JP, Secretary Sarah Pope, Recording Secretary with little or no appreciation for the whole, for the complexities of Tom Cowan, MD Cherie Calvert nature. In fact, the reductionist view of mainstream scientists today Valerie Cury Joyner holds that imitation foods can be created out of commodity ingredi- Michael Schmidt ents―soy, corn, seed oils, sugar, milk powders―and then "enriched" BOARD MEMBER EMERITUS with synthetic vitamins to produce something that is as healthy as the Mary Enig, PhD, FACN, CNS real thing. Such foods will in fact save mankind, they assert, because GENERAL COUNSEL James Turner, Esq. there is not enough real food to nourish our growing population, and even if there were, such foods cause heart disease, cancer and many HONORARY BOARD Jen Allbritton, BS, CN other ills. Naomi Baumslag, MD, MPH Marie A. Bishop, CDC This view becomes more and more untenable the more we learn Jerry Brunetti about the synergies of life systems. Chris Masterjohn's article in this Natasha Campbell-McBride, MD Lee Clifford, MS, CCN issue (page 15) provides just a few examples of how nutrients work Christapher Cogswell, MA together in complex ways to support good health. Monica Corrado Janice Curtin We are a civilization in decline, due mostly to the view that in- Eric Davis, BDSc, DAc, DCN William Campbell Douglass, MD dustrial foods are cleaner, more efficient, more convenient and even Sara Bachman Ducey, MS, CNS healthier than real food. Nature is viewed as something to be feared, so James A. Duke, PhD Carol Esche, DNP, MA, RN, CNA science tries to protect us from threats like germs, sunlight, cholesterol Mike Fitzpatrick, PhD and saturated fat. Until we realize that we are embedded in nature, that Ruth Ann Foster, MA Donna Gates, BS, MEd natural processes support and protect us, we will continue down the Nicholas Gonzalez, MD Trauger Groh smooth, wide highway of industrialism in food and agriculture, looking Joann S. Grohman to modern medicine for easy cures, but sliding inexorably into infertil- Barry Anthony Groves Beatrice Trum Hunter, MA ity and disease nevertheless. There will be survivors, of course; those Mark A. Kastel who return to the wise culinary traditions of our ancestors―a process Larry Klein Fred Kummerow, PhD I call the Natural Selection of the Wise. Felix Liao, DDS Kilmer McCully, AB, MD, MA (hon) There will be plenty of delicious real food at Wise Traditions 2012, Judith McGeary, Esq. our 13th annual conference―we now refer to it as an international Carlos Monteiro Kenneth Fielding Morehead, DOM conference―to be held November 8-12 in Santa Clara, California. The David Morris, BS, DC menus will feature wild seafood, grass-fed meats and dairy products Kathryne Pirtle, BS, MA Jessica Prentice and delicious local produce. And since we will be in California, raw Bruce Rind, MD Sir Julian Rose, BT dairy products will be on sale in the exhibit hall. Julia Ross, MA We have a wonderful slate of over forty-five speakers, many of Beverly Rubik, BS, PhD Adrienne Samuels, PhD them new, plus tried-and-true old favorites. This year's conference will Ron Schmid, ND feature tracks on Nutrition and Behavior on both Saturday and Sunday, Andreas Schuld Stephanie Seneff, BS, MS, EE, PhD plus tracks on Local Farmers, Native Ways, Wise Entrepreneurs and C. Edgar Sheaffer, VMD Ted Spence, DDS, ND the Frontiers of Science. We always have one track on nutrition, and Rebecca L. Stearns, LAc, DAc this year is no exception, featuring a fantastic lineup of speakers on Alana Sugar, CN Krispin Sullivan, CN vitamins and minerals. Beverly B. Teter, PhD, FACN, CNS John Umlauf Registrations are selling fast and there is the possibility that we Susun S. Weed might sell out, so if you are planning to attend, don't delay in signing David Wetzel, BS Bruce West, DC up. For details, see pages 27-29. We look forward to another wonderful Louisa L. Williams, MS, DC, ND conference and to seeing many of you there! 2 Wise Traditions FALL 2012 FALL 2012 Wise Traditions 101665_text.indd 2 9/14/12 1:32 AM Letters HIGH IN THE ANDES GAPS CONCERNS In 2009, I personally got swept I am in the high Andes, in Cusco, I am concerned about the Founda- away in the low-carb wave, and by the Peru, which has a pretty big tourist tion’s endorsement of the GAPS diet, spring of 2010, was battling fatigue, population. I wanted to share what I see which has pushed the Carb Wars further depression, hair loss, dry skin and in the market here. Not only chicken in the low-carb direction. People appear menstrual problems. My son's anxiety feet, but the snouts of cows, steer heads, to be making the illogical conclusion returned, and my kids have since not testicles, and every part inside and out that because it is effective for some been as healthy as they were in 2007 and of an animal you can imagine. A friend children with autism, not only is it good 2008, on a well-rounded WAPF-inspired told me as a child, they used to eat sheep for all kids with autism, but it will cure way of eating. All the broth and liver in eyes boiled. everything. the world did not make up for the effects There are fresh cheeses, butter, ex- In 2006, I successfully treated my of the lost glucose. We are still recover- otic fruits, several varieties of ing from that experiment! quinoa and amaranth. They sell WAPF is a non-profit organiza- an edible lupin seed that looks tion. I believe its most important like a lentil but bigger; it is contributions are in the areas of white and does not have much connecting consumers with local, flavor but it is high in protein. nourishing foods, underscoring You can choose from hundreds the importance of animal foods of varieties of potatoes. I met and saturated fats in the diet, a man on the street who sells and highlighting the destructive yogurt from leche fresca, raw effects of food additives. Those milk, which is not available in recommendations alone have the the grocery stores. potential to make a great impact Today we went to a small on the health of any individual. village and met a woman who Unfortunately, I think a lot of the had a few little girls hanging chapter leaders are in the health around her, all with beautiful business and are thus biased, teeth. I asked her what the more apt to follow trends, or children ate. She said they ate recommend things that worked corn, wheat, quinoa and guinea for them personally, without un- pig―the whole animal. They derstanding that there may be no gut the little rodent and cook it with the own autistic son in the context of a well- universal solutions. Quite a few of them head and teeth on. Then they do vari- rounded WAPF diet, which included are demonizing carbohydrates. Many ous things to prepare the viscera. But fruit, maple syrup, honey, Rapadura, benefit from the client base attracted by as commercialism has taken hold you raw milk and soaked grains, so I don't the Foundation. All of the "Real Food can see the maxillas of these beauti- see the utility of GAPS for all autism Bloggers" (like the ones who try a diet ful people changing, especially in the spectrum disorders. From my online on the bestseller list because it men- city dwellers. There are dentist offices forum experience and as a past chapter tions Green Pasture's cod liver oil) and everywhere. leader, I have endless feedback from tangentially-related health professionals Ann Oldham Michael people who think that GAPS is a pana- definitely affect the direction the orga- Coyhaique, Chile cea rather than a temporary therapeutic nization is trying to take.