Want to know whether or not coffee is good for you? So did I. Here’s a few cons and a few pros to ponder.
Why I *Heart* Paleo, Primal, and WAPF Diets
What do the Paleo Diet, the Primal Diet, and the WAPF Diet have in common? A love of ancestral health. In their own ways, each of these diets is committed to eliminating processed, industrial foods in favor of the traditional diets that humans have been eating for thousands of generations.
Real Food Link Love
I hate this part of the Link Love post — the part where I try to summarize the post in a few handy sentences. Sometimes, it’s just downright impossible. I’ve tried different strategies over the years. Sometimes I’ve simply talked about my own week. Sometimes I’ve teased readers with a few of the post’s highlights. I’ll probably do all of those again. Today, I’m opting for full disclosure.
Summarizing this week’s Link Love post was hard, so hard I opted not to do it!
FDA Attacks Raw Milk
The FDA actually spent your tax dollars to create THIS — a poster they’re asking you to share with your friends and family about the dangers of raw milk. The absolute riskiest food in America to eat is LEAFY GREENS! Yet no one, not even the FDA, is saying that eating leafy greens is “playing Russian Roulette with your health.” No one is pushing for the sale of leafy greens to be illegal. And no one is using your tax dollars to create anti- leafy green vegetable posters.
Nutrition eCourse Open For Spring
Enrollment for the Spring 2011 Real Food Nutrition & Health e-Course has opened up again. If you missed out on signing yourself or your teenager up for the class this past Fall, now’s your chance to sign up for the Spring.
Have You Got A Weston A. Price Smile?
That’s my son Isaac. He’s six years old today. And he’s sporting his Weston A. Price smile. Have you got one? Do your kids? Do you know what one is?
The characteristic Weston A. Price smile is on a wide face with high cheekbones, the dental arch is wide with plenty of room for all the teeth to grow, and the teeth are straight, perfect and clean. It’s THE sign of good nutrition. How do I know that, you ask?
Proposed 2010 USDA Dietary Guidelines
We shouldn’t be surprised. After all, the USDA’s dietary guidelines have long been backwards. By telling us to replace nutrient-dense saturated fats (a basic requirement of all cell membranes in the human body) with carbohydrates, the USDA food pyramid has fostered the obesity epidemic, surging rates of diabetes, and the dramatic upswing in cardio vascular disease. That’s because if your body doesn’t get enough saturated fats in your diet, it uses carbohydrates to create them. The unfortunate byproduct of using carbohydrates this way is elevated triglyceride levels, an increase in small, dense LDL, and increased inflammation of the arteries and cellular membranes. In other words, the high carbohydrate diet of the USDA elevates all the key markers for heart disease.
Thankfully, the Sally Fallon Morell, president of the Weston A. Price foundation, is speaking out. Yesterday she released an in-depth series of comments on the new proposed USDA Dietary Guidelines for 2010.
Healing Our Children by Ramiel Nagel
When Rami Nagel sent me a review copy of his newest book, Healing Our Children, I thought I was in for another version of Nina Planck’s Real Food For Mother And Baby. Then I started reading it.
While it is true that Ramiel shares many of the same ideas about nutrition as Nina Planck, his approach to that information is wildly different. One Amazon reviewer summed up her thoughts on this book like this: “Yikes! Wacky Hippies Co-Opt Weston A. Price.” That’s not a bad summary.
GMOs A Thing Of The Past, Artisan Butchers, Laughs, & More
Ah, another Thursday, another post full of delectable links you’ll want to enjoy!
This week’s line up features some of the most interesting articles I’ve ever read touching on politically incorrect nutrition, disappearing real food traditions, and the coming shift in biotechnology agriculture research. Considering how thought-provoking and heavy those posts were, I decided to throw in a laugh (thanks to The Onion) and a tasty recipe to balance it all out.
Hope you enjoy!
What Are Superfoods?
As a lover of Real Food, I’m no fan of supplements. I believe that if you can find food grown in naturally nutrient-rich soil (or meat from animals fed their natural diets), you are pretty much guaranteed to have the right balance of vitamins and minerals to not just survive, but thrive.
But let’s be honest. How many of us are able to stick to that diet perfectly? Furthermore, how many of us can say with certainty that our food isn’t grown in depleted soil (even if it’s certified “organic”)?