What is the GAPS Diet? Wondering what the GAPS Diet is? You’re not alone. The GAPS diet is a comprehensive healing protocol developed by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride, a neurologist and nutritionist who specializes in healing of issues like autism spectrum disorders, ADD/ADHD, dyspraxia, dyslexia and schizophrenia by treating the root cause of many of these [...]
Why Everyone is Talking about the GAPS Diet, Plus 5 Resources to Get Started
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Wise Traditions 2009
October 2, 2009 By Leave a Comment
Wise Traditions 2009 – the Weston A Price Foundation’s 10th Annual Conference – is just around the corner and I’m planning to attend. It’ll be my first Weston A Price Foundation conference, and the line up has me entranced: lectures about sacred foods and traditional diets, films, cooking classes, yoga. Best of all [...]
Eat Your Beef & Butter: CLA, Disease and Diet
September 9, 2009 By Leave a Comment
A healthy dietary fat, conjugated linoleic acid (CLA) was discovered fairly recently; however research into its potential benefits to human health are extensive. CLA is a natural trans-fatty acid that shows strong promise in inhibiting cancer, reducing the risk of heart disease and fighting inflammation. (Learn more about CLA in this post: CLA: The [...]
10 Reasons NOT to Give Up Red Meat
April 7, 2009 By 55 Comments
1. Conjugated Linoleic Acid (CLA) Found in the meat and milk of grass-fed ruminants, like cows, Conjugated Linoleic Acid or CLA is a potent nutrient. Researchers are just beginning to understand the mechanisms behind the potent and positive health effects traditional peoples have enjoyed since the days of hunting and gathering. CLA is known [...]
The Role of Traditional Sweeteners in the Diet
January 26, 2009 By Leave a Comment
This the last part in January’s series on sweeteners. Next month, the Traditional Foods Primer will focus on bone broth – its nutritive value, preparing it and using it. This month we’ve examined modern sweeteners, traditional sweeteners and their uses and now we’re onto looking at the role sweeteners can play in [...]
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