I’m currently reading the Weston A. Price Foundation’s website and it has a wealth of information concerning health and what our ancestors ate and how it contributed to their excellent health. Surprisingly, it was a high meat, figh fat, and high saturated fat diet. Surely the meat was unprocessed and did not have nearly as many toxins as the meats today do. When Weston A. Price went to all the uncivilized peoples in the 1930s, he found that they too were eating a very high meat and saturated fats diet and yet had perfect teeth, no tooth decay, and were much taller and stronger than the people of the civilized world. Dr. Mercola (mercola.com) has a similar view about health as the Weston A. Price Foundation does. I’ve been reading Mercola’s site for years and agree with 99% of his findings and recommendations and the same goes for the Weston A. Price foundation. Both foundations do also advocate eating dark green leafy vegetables and to limit the intake of fruits and any processed foods. Processed foods are among the worst offenders for our ill health, along with the fluoridation of our water. Most of the processed foods are made with genetically engineered ingredients, the worst offenders being highly manipulated corn and soy. Unless the label says it used organic soy/corn, you should assume it was genetically altered.
Another aspect of the traditional diet, as they call it on the site, is that these people ate the whole animal and different parts of each animal had a different benefit. It is a fascinating website and I trust that their findings are correct due to their evidence of primitive cultures and the enormous amount of references and the additional evidence of the people who are a part of the organization who follow the Weston A Price diet. This explains why we love meat as a species. I just wish our meat today was raised in a more healthy environment. It is very expensive to get healthy meat and eggs from a trusted source, so the majority of people end up buying highly contaminated and drugged animal meat, which contributed to health problems. Pasture-raised meats and certified humane are the only real labels we can trust. Even cage-free animals are still packed in concrete floor warehouses and organic just means their feed is clean of pesticides and genetic manipulation and that they were not subjected to antibiotics or synthetic hormones. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t locked in cages and treated with such disregard for their individuality that I can almost understand why people are vegan today. It’s just too bad that the vegan diet is full of nutritional deficiencies, such as good Omega-3 fatty acids and most importantly, Vitamin B-12 and animal-based vitamin D.
They are also advocates for raw dairy, as I have for a couple of years. Organic, raw dairy is one of nature’s healthiest foods, as are organic, healthy eggs. It is a variation of the Atkin’s diet in a way, but it doesn’t have any processed foods whatsoever. I would call it more of an ancestral diet, a traditional diet. It takes a look at what nourishes human beings best and if we could ever get back to an environment where we can live that sort of life where that diet is possible, we could flourish as a species again. If we could stop producing industrial pollutants and nuclear weapons and start producing healthier and more nutrient-dense food, we could become beings of joy and well-being instead of beings of depression and malnourishment.
I would advise anyone who is deeply interested in their health to check out The Weston A. Price Foundation and Mercola.com.
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