Wise Traditions IN FOOD, FARMING AND THE HEALING ARTS A PUBLICATION OF Volume 9 Number 4 THE WESTON A. PRICE FO U NDat I ON® Winter 2008 CONTENTS FEATURES All Thumbs Book Reviews Page 53 The Pursuit of Happiness Page 14 Fat: It’s Not What You Think Chris Masterjohn explores The Warrior Diet the role of the fat-soluble vitamins Whole Foods Primer for mental and emotional health The Sweetener Trap Thrive with Diabetes Moods and the Immune System Page 25 The Devil’s Poison Tom Cowan presents low-dose naltrexone Trick and Treat as a treatment for addictions and immune disorders Tim’s DVD Reviews Page 61 Metals and the Mind Page 35 Growing Wise Kids Page 64 Theresa Vernon explains the role of copper Jen Allbritton meets the challenge and other toxic metals in mental disease of baby number two Soy Alert Page 70 DEPARTMENTS An open letter to Barack Obama President’s Message Page 2 on the soy-based diet in Illinois prisons Body and Mind NAIS Update Page 72 Letters Page 3 Judith McGeary discusses the meaning of the word “voluntary” Caustic Commentary Page 10 A Campaign for Real Milk Page 76 Pete Kennedy keeps us updated on Homeopathy Journal Page 46 the latest developments Depression, anxiety and homeopathy Healthy Baby Gallery Page 80 Know Your Fats Page 48 Local Chapters Page 81 Mary Enig debunks the latest attack Shop Heard ‘Round the World Page 92 on coconut oil Membership Page 108 Upcoming Events Page 109 THE WESTON A. PRICE ® President’s Message FOUNDatION Education Research Activism BOARD OF DIRECTORS Sally Fallon, MA, President and Treasurer In this issue we offer our members three articles based on presenta- Mary Enig, PhD, FACN, CNS, Vice President tions given at Wise Traditions 2008, our ninth annual conference. The Geoffrey Morell, ND, JP, Secretary Tom Cowan, MD conference explored the connection of nutrition with mental and emo- Cherie Calvert Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN tional health; and the many fine speakers on this subject validated the Valerie Curry Joyner intimate connection between the body and the mind, between physical GENERAL COUNSEL health and mental outlook. James Turner, Esq. The three representative articles we present in this issue offer three HONORARY BOARD distinct but complementary points of view on the influence of nutrition Jen Allbritton, BS, CN Christian B. Allen, PhD on our emotions and mental well-being. Chris Masterjohn presents Naomi Baumslag, MD, MPH the latest scientific discoveries on the contribution of the fat-soluble Marie A. Bishop, CDC Jerry Brunetti activators, vitamins A and D, to the function of “feel-good” chemicals Natasha Campbell-McBride, MD in the brain, and even to our ability to plan for the future and carry out Lee Clifford, MS, CCN Christapher Cogswell, MA long-range tasks. Monica Corrado Janice Curtin From his viewpoint as an anthroposophical physician inspired by Eric Davis, BDSc, DAc, DCN the writings of Rudolf Steiner, Tom Cowan discusses the question of William Campbell Douglass, MD Sara Bachman Ducey, MS, CNS what is disease? what is a proper diagnosis? what is an autoimmune James A. Duke, PhD disease? and what is the connection of our interior body chemistry to Carol Esche, DNP, MA, RN, CNA Mike Fitzpatrick, PhD the plants that grow in the world outside ourselves. He also presents Ruth Ann Foster, MA Donna Gates, BS, MEd information about the great potential for low-dose naltrexone therapy Zac Goldsmith, Editor, The Ecologist in the treatment of addiction and immune dysfunction. Nicholas Gonzalez, MD Trauger Groh Theresa Vernon explores the relationship between nutrition, heavy Joann S. Grohman metals and disease, including mental disorders. Her work underscores Barry Anthony Groves Beatrice Trum Hunter, MA the importance of healthy adrenal function as the basis for ongoing Richard James, MBA, LLD Larry Klein protection against heavy metals, and also highlights the dangers of Kilmer McCully, AB, MD, MA (hon) vegetarian diets, which lead to mineral imbalances. Her treatment plan Frank Melograna, MD Carlos Monteiro includes a nutrient-dense diet, cod liver oil, hair mineral analysis, gentle Joseph Mercola, DO Kenneth Fielding Morehead, DOM detoxification measures and Chinese herbs. David Morris, BS, DC Recent new alerts tell us that one young adult in five suffers from a Bruce Rind, MD Julia Ross, MA personality disorder serious enough to affect normal life activities and Jordan S. Rubin, NMD, CNC that one adult in two will suffer from a mental or emotional disorder some Ethan Russo, MD Adrienne Samuels, PhD time during life. Indeed, almost the entire civilized world is addicted Jack Samuels, MSHA Ron Schmid, ND to either drugs or stimulants (including refined and artificial sweeten- Andreas Schuld ers). This is not what Dr. Price found in his studies of nonindustrialized Frederick I. Scott, Jr, BE, MS C. Edgar Sheaffer, VMD peoples consuming nutrient-dense foods. Modern treatment plans for Ted Spence, DDS, ND these conditions generally ignore the role of nutrition for the proper Rebecca L. Stearns, LAc, DAc Alana Sugar, CN function of our neuro-hormones, neuro-transmitters and other important Krispin Sullivan, CN Joe Tarantolo, MD neuro-chemicals; but the combination of recent scientific discoveries and John Umlauf the wisdom and experience of holistic practitioners in this field reveals Charles Walters, MA Susun S. Weed nutrition to be the only firm basis on which to build lasting healing for David Wetzel, BS so-called psychological illness. In the midst of campaigns for increasing Bruce West, DC George Yu, MD pharmaceutical treatments for mental and emotional disorders in both young and old, we should always keep in mind the still, small voice of Dr. Price: Life in all its fullness is Mother Nature obeyed. 2 Wise Traditions WINTER 2008 Letters RAW MILK RECOVERY non-fat milk which I refused to consume. what this was and called a friend in the I grew up in the Netherlands. For At one point after the hospitalization I city to find out. She told us that these are 25 years there, I consumed raw milk. told my wife, “I’m losing ground.” I felt small cisterns of raw milk from nearby My family would take a bucket full of like I was going down. Then I resumed farms (she had no details about them) milk and put it in the cellar because we consuming raw milk at the rate of one that regularly appear in the courtyards didn’t have refrigeration, and they would and one-half gallons per week. That’s of apartment houses. They look a lot like skim it. Whenever the cream turned not quite a quart a day. Since then I’ve a kvass cistern—except for the decora- sour, I always got the sour cream. been told that I look really healthy. I tions, of course! Residents come out because I was the runt of the litter, and divorced my wheelchair and I’m now with pitchers and other containers and it was good for me. When I came to trying to orphan my cane. receive milk from the spigot. Our friend this country in 1950, I was employed in I’m nearly 84 years old, and I’m do- said the same milk is available bottled the dairy industry, and I still drank raw ing my part in fighting the government in the shops, but the cistern milk is milk—I never took to the pasteurized to keep them from interfering with my cheaper and tends to go sour faster. It is and homogenized milk that you have raw milk. To paraphrase John McCain, not refrigerated; a truck brings it into the here. “I’ll go to the gates of hell to defend raw courtyard, detaches the cistern and an When my wife and I adopted our milk.” attendant with an apron services the pa- daughter, we were told that she was Ed De Boer trons. They sell out quickly and a truck lactose intolerant. Well, we solved that Bakersfield, California comes to retrieve the empty cistern. The problem with raw milk. I got it from attendant dutifully recommends that my own cows because by that time I FROM RUSSIA you boil the milk. This arrangement is had my own dairy. My cows greatly WITH LIVING MILK very common, apparently. We asked our outperformed those of my neighbors, Yesterday we and I credit that success to pasturing received a book of my herd once a day. After five years photos by an old I moved to a dry-lot operation, which friend who is the brought on leptospirosis [a bacterial head of urban plan- disease of animals and humans] in my ning in St. Peters- herd. At that point I stopped drinking burg. Volodya is also my own product and I told my raw milk a talented amateur customers I didn’t feel right about it… photographer who’s so I stopped giving it to them. I went exhibited his work to considerable expense to solve the around the world. disease problem. After overcoming the This latest collection illness in my cows, I was financially of photos from St. exhausted and sold the herd. Petersburg included It wasn’t until three or four years one of a small cistern ago, after moving to Bakersfield, that on wheels, cheer- I started drinking raw milk again. I’ve fully painted like a been a steady customer of Organic cow with the words Pastures ever since. I recently recovered “Living Milk” on its from hospitalization during which I side. didn’t get any raw milk. They offered me We wondered WINTER 2008 Wise Traditions 3 Letters friend if she’d heard of any instances of the birds like, and another color for PRINCIPLES ARE THE illness from the Living Milk dispersals skim milk.