Weston A Price, a Cleveland dentist who, when challenged by rampant tooth decay and the considerable physical degeneration of his patients, left his practice and traveled the world researching the dietary practices of peoples consuming processed foods and those consuming an unprocessed, native diet, and the non-profit nutritional advocacy group named in his honor – [...]
From the Mouths of Babes
April 30, 2009 By 5 Comments
AKA Let My 3-year old teach you about Real Food I’ve written about the joys of nourishing my son: nourishing him with my body during his time in my womb, nourishing him with my milk first exclusively during his first six months and complemented for three more years, weaning him on to Real Food through [...]
A little mercury with your soda?
January 27, 2009 By
A new study published in Environmental Health confirms that mercury, a known neurotoxin, contaminates almost half of the high fructose corn syrup currently on the market. Another study published by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy found that almost one-third of popular, processed foods containing HFCS as the first or second ingredient under [...]
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 [...]
A Guide to Natural Sweeteners & How to Use Them
January 19, 2009 By 23 Comments
This is the third part in 2009′s series: the Traditional Foods Primer. This month’s focus is sweeteners: the detriments of modern sweeteners, a guide to traditional sweeteners and how to transition from the modern to the traditional. But before we delve into whether or not sweeteners deserve a place in the modern diet – [...]
What They Say
September 3, 2008 By Leave a Comment
Now that the FDA has officially changed its course and determined that High Fructose Corn Syrup does indeed qualify as “natural” or, rather, that it “would not object to the use of the term ‘natural’ on a product containing the HFCS produced by [a manufacturing process without synthetic fixatives] ,” the corn refiners association is [...]
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