The Nourishing Diet
By: Melissa Naasko
All Rights Reserved Copyright 2011 Melissa Naasko
This is not an official publication of nor endorsed by the Weston A. Price Foundation. Nothing in this guide is intended as medical advice, which if needed, should be sought from a qualified professional. The contents of this booklet are protected by copyright and should not be reproduced without express written permission of the author.
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• Introduction • Basics of a Nourishing Diet • Dairy Foods • Meat, Poultry, Fish and Eggs • Plant Foods • Healthy Fats • Salt • Beverages • Sweeteners • Wrapping It All Up • Resources • About the Author • Dedication •
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~Introduction~
Have you been thinking about making a change to a more nourishing diet? When they have decided to start a nourishing diet, many people first read Sally Fallon’s Nourishing Traditions or Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Dr. Weston A. Price. Together these books offer tremendous amounts of information and years of research in hundreds of pages of background information, citations and recipes—literally hundreds and hundreds of pages. It can be pretty overwhelming to consider something the size of a phone book when trying to determine just what one should be eating. When looking these books over, the perception is that a nourishing diet is too difficult to understand so maybe it is better not to even bother. The truth is that the principles in a nourishing diet are time-tested, scientifically proven, and have traditionally been accomplished by people all over the world in many times and places and with far fewer resources than you have. As the mother of ten (yes, ten) homeschooled children, I find it easy enough to practice a nourishing diet and blog about it. If you have been worried about how to get started, here is the introduction you need to what the diet is, how to practice it and where to find more information so you can get the best start possible.
~Basics of a Nourishing Diet~
In the 1930s a pioneering dentist named Weston A. Price was keenly aware of a major turning point in health. He knew that something was wrong with the teeth of modern peoples as he watched greater numbers of children and adults in his practice developing narrowed palates, weaker teeth and generally a weaker physical constitution. He wondered if diet was to blame, as nutrition was a new and burgeoning field showing great promise. He was witness to a brave new world of modern medicine, modern travel and modern foods. Despite all these advancements, he could not say improved teeth were a part of it. He was a successful dentist of means and living in an age when travel was fast becoming easier but was still rare enough that he could travel the world and see both traditional peoples on traditional diets as well as modern peoples on modern diets in the same geographical area and with the same genetic heritage. This gave him a unique opportunity in history to truly compare diets and discover what is the most nourishing and healing diet. He took this research back to his clinic in Cleveland, Ohio and improved the lives of children in his own city. This research is compiled in the expansive tome Nutrition and Physical Degradation. This study provided the foundation to Fallon and Enig which they supplemented with other research to create their revolutionary book Nourishing Traditions.