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[arethinn]

I found this while trying to search for information about the early "Food Pyramid" guides, in which I seem to recall reading that butter was its own food group. The Weston A. Price Foundation for Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts -- basically treating of holistic diet and health practices. Includes a number of articles on traditional diets, fermented foods, problems with modern processed foods (like duh?), etc. that some of you may be interested in.

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[r-monoxide.livejournal.com]

yeah, except Weston A Price is a nutcase. He studied "traditional diets" of "traditional cultures" who no longer ate their traditional diets and were eating rations and westernized foods. And they defend trans-fats and are anti-soy which are both absurd.

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

Whether "anti-soy" is absurd is, of course, up for a lot of debate. But while I saw a lot of support for saturated animal fats, I saw a number of articles on the site specifically denouncing vegetable trans fats?

[starlightforest.livejournal.com]

I had an additional thought on this. Traditional diets may be fine in their context but the site fails to note (at least, I didn't see it) is that one also needs to live the traditional lifestyle that goes along with a given diet. If all you are trying to say is "modern processed food has an adverse effect on the natives", then fine, but it doesn't go to say we should all adopt high fat, high protein diets. Inuit who eat seal blubber, or whatever, are expending tremendous amounts of calories catching it in the first place, and I would suppose that they have "micro-evolved" to deal well with this food source -- i.e., that those who are predisposed to react badly to high intake of saturated fat would have been selected out of the gene pool through dying of heart disease, or whatever, leaving only the ones whose bodies can handle it by the time pale, shivering anthropologists came along. ^_-