Diet and Nutrition
Here are a few resources on optimal diets for infants and children. I follow traditional wisdom when it comes to diet and recommend the Weston A Price Foundation's work, GAPS diet and Paleo diets, however, I am also respectful of other choices parents make for their children, such as vegetarian and vegan diets.
Nourishing Our Children
Special division of Weston A Price Foundation focusing on children, click here.
Nourishing Traditions Blog
Another blog related to the Weston A Price work, click here.
Alternative Boomer Legacy
Fabulous blog by the Victoria Weston Price chapter leader
Great article: The 11th Hour - on traditional diets to build healthy immune function
Great article: The 11th Hour - on traditional diets to build healthy immune function
Weston A Price Foundation
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Dr. Weston A. Price (1870-1948), a Cleveland dentist, has been called the “Isaac Newton of Nutrition.” In his search for the causes of dental decay and physical degeneration that he observed in his dental practice, he turned from test tubes and microscopes to unstudied evidence among human beings. Dr. Price sought the factors responsible for fine teeth among the people who had them–isolated nonindustrialized people.
The world became his laboratory. As he traveled, his findings led him to the belief that dental caries and deformed dental arches resulting in crowded, crooked teeth and unattractive appearance were merely a sign of physical degeneration, resulting from what he had suspected–nutritional deficiencies.
Price traveled the world over in order to study isolated human groups, including sequestered villages in Switzerland, Gaelic communities in the Outer Hebrides, Eskimos and Indians of North America, Melanesian and Polynesian South Sea Islanders, African tribes, Australian Aborigines, New Zealand Maori and the Indians of South America.
Wherever he went, Dr. Price found that beautiful straight teeth, freedom from decay, stalwart bodies, resistance to disease and fine characters were typical of primitives on their traditional diets, rich in essential food factors. Please check out the website here. They offer many educational resources on excellent nutrition, including a free 7-part info series for signing up.
The world became his laboratory. As he traveled, his findings led him to the belief that dental caries and deformed dental arches resulting in crowded, crooked teeth and unattractive appearance were merely a sign of physical degeneration, resulting from what he had suspected–nutritional deficiencies.
Price traveled the world over in order to study isolated human groups, including sequestered villages in Switzerland, Gaelic communities in the Outer Hebrides, Eskimos and Indians of North America, Melanesian and Polynesian South Sea Islanders, African tribes, Australian Aborigines, New Zealand Maori and the Indians of South America.
Wherever he went, Dr. Price found that beautiful straight teeth, freedom from decay, stalwart bodies, resistance to disease and fine characters were typical of primitives on their traditional diets, rich in essential food factors. Please check out the website here. They offer many educational resources on excellent nutrition, including a free 7-part info series for signing up.
Local Chapter Leader of WAPF
The Weston A Price Foundation has chapters to help others find organic, farm-fresh produce, milk, eggs and meat. The local chapter leader in Victoria is Linda Morken, (250-642-3624), wapfvictoriabc@fastmail.net, http://alternativeboomerlegacy.com/.
Healthy for Life Booklet
A great, 80+ page booklet on nutrition created by the Weston A Price Foundation, you can download it here or buy a hard copy for only $10.00 using this order form.
Top Ten Facts You may not Know about Your Diet
Short article on the basics, such as eggs being good for us, the valuable role of butter and raw milk as well as liver. Click here.
Building Natural Immunity
Short article on the importance of vitamins A and D, fermented foods and bone broth to build natural immunity in children. Click here.