In her fantastic book Nourishing Traditions, Sally Fallon has included many quotes of various people throughout that are very interesting and informative. As I have been quite involved in pursuing health and wellness for several years now, I thought I would share one particular quote with you all today in order to stir you and encourage you. (P.S. Weston Price, who is mentioned below, was a dentist in the early 1900's who traveled the globe and did much research on the health of various people groups. Very interesting man! Click on his name to go to the Weston Price Foundation website)
The education of the young in the tribal groups Weston Price studied included instruction in dietary wisdom as a way of ensuring health of future generations and the continuance of the tribe in the face of constant challenges of finding food and defending against warring neighbors.
Modern parents, living in times of peace and abundance face an altogether different challenge, one of discrimination and cunning. For they must learn to discriminate between hyperbole and truth when it comes to choosing foods for themselves and their family; and to practice cunning in protecting their children from those displacing products of modern commerce that prevent the optimal expression of their genetic heritage -- foodstuffs made of sugar, white flour, vegetable oils and products that imitate the nourishing foods of our ancestors -- margarine, shortening, egg replacements, meat extenders, fake broth, ersatz cream, processed cheese, factory farmed meats, industrially farmed plantfoods, protein powders and packets of stuff that never spoils.
For a future of healthy children -- for any future at all -- we must turn our backs on the dietary advice of sophisticated medical orthodoxy and return to the food wisdom of our so-called primitive ancestors, choosing traditional whole foods that are organically grown, humanely raised, minimally processed and above all not shorn of their vital lipid component.
-Ancient Dietary Wisdom for Tomorrow's Children
2 comments:
Hey Tina! I am so glad you found me on myspace and of course I remember you! How could I forget? I don't think I could ever forget that awesome talk we had about dreams. You have recently inspired me to start thinking more about them. They have been SO vivid lately! It's a true blessing. I have been browsing through this blog and I really enjoy it! I can't wait to check it out more often. You have such wonderful, potent things here....truly inspiring. I hope all is well in KY. Matt and I miss everyone back at Restoration House but we plan on visiting soon enough. Until then, I pray we keep in touch and you will always be in our thoughts and prayers. Love you, sister:)
Tasha
Tina,
I need to stop reading your blog at night... it keeps me from sleeping. I think I have clicked on everyone of your links and spent waaay too long reading.
So, I just ordered the book "Ancient Traditions" and also spent quite a bit of time navigating through the weston price foundation.
Now, time to sleep!
Thank you for your posts. I am gleaning so much from you... since I don't have the time to do it myself, I am on the coat tails of your research!!!
I also am eager to hear any adoption news as I am praying for your little girl to join her family very soon.
I am praying that the Lord is preparing her heart as she longs for your touch and your affection. I am praying for supernatural bonding!
Blessings to you all... so glad you are feeling better again... we've all got it now!
Katy
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