Nourishing Traditions

I've been revisiting some of my past eating experiences during the last week or so... this cleanse advocates as much raw food as possible and It's been tempting to jump on the raw food bandwagon as I did a couple of years ago in an extreme way... there's something quite satisfying about being really disciplined and anal!

However thankfully I've become a bit more balenced since those days and can now see value in different theories and concepts and tend to take bits that make sense from all of them and leave the more 'fanatical' practices where they are.

Macrobiotics, another way of life that has some very interesting points to it (which I'm learning about on my cooking course) seems to be the total polar opposite of Raw food veganism...

So I returned to my much loved nutrition tomes that grace my book shelf that I return to again and again as well as the internet....

One such book is:

Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon with Mary G. Enig Ph.D. (a world renknowned expert on fats)

This is an amazing book full of useful and interesting facts, figures and recipes and has a very balenced approach to nutritition.

Sally Fallon founded the Weston A. Price Foundation amongst other things...Dr Weston Price is the famous dentist who conducted extensive research into the healthy teeth and bones of indigenous populations around the world and found a direct correlation between traditional diet and good health and strong bone structure vs the malformed teeth of the same cultures bought up with 'modern nutrition'

check out these links for more info

www.westonaprice.org
www.mercola.com/2001/jan/21/weston_price.htm



www.radiantlifecatalog.com/service/wisdom2.cfm
These pictures are from the above link...

Upper pictures) Young people born to parents who ate traditional nutrient-rich diets.

(Lower pictures) Children born to traditional people who had largely abandoned traditional foods for refined and processed foods.