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Volume 8, Number 1, Spring 2007
President’s Message:
Weston Price Vindicated. . . and Misrepresented
With this issue, we are proud to offer a solution to a sixty-year-old
mystery, namely, just what
is the X Factor described by Dr. Weston A. Price? Our scientific
sleuth Chris Masterjohn has done a brilliant job of correlating Price’s
research on the X Factor with modern research on vitamin K2,
showing that these two nutrients are one and the same. What emerges
is a long list of benefits from this largely unrecognized nutrient—protection
from heart disease and dental caries, support for brain, kidney and
reproductive function, and even proper development of the facial bones
resulting in the beautiful wide facial structures captured in Dr. Price’s
photographs of nonindustrialized peoples.
Since vitamin K2 is mainly found in the fat and organ meats
of animals eating green grass, I believe that the solution to this mystery
represents the death knell for modern agriculture. This won’t
happen overnight, of course, but as the public becomes aware of the
amazing benefits of vitamin K2, the demand for pasture-raised
animal products will become overwhelming. Those who do make efforts
to consume foods rich in vitamin K2 will be blessed with
a long life and healthy offspring; their numbers will grow while the
numbers of those consuming the products of industrial agriculture will
decline—I refer to this process as the “natural selection
of the wise.” My prediction: within 20 years, the nightmare of
confinement agriculture will be a thing of the past and the agricultural
lands of the world will once again become dotted with prosperous pasture-based
farms.
It becomes more and more obvious that the only solution to our health
problems is the adoption of traditional foodways—but what to do
if you have trouble transitioning from a lowfat or vegetarian diet to
the new, higher-fat paradigm? We provide a number of suggestions and
solutions in this issue, starting with a letter
from Tawanda Queen. Articles by Katherine
Czapp, Laurie
Warner and Tom
Cowan offer much wisdom and good advice for those who wish to embrace
our dietary principles.
As our influence grows, a number of authors have co-opted our rhetoric
to promote principles not in line with those of traditional diets. For
this reason, we offer two extensive book reviews in this issue, one
on Healthy at 100 by
John Robbins (who argues that the foodways of traditional peoples were
largely vegetarian) and the other on Eat
to Live by Joel Fuhrman (who argues that a “nutrient dense”
diet is one based on vegetables). We also provide rebuttals to the work
of Brian Peskin on essential
fatty acid balance and Loren Cordain on the supposed
cancer-causing effects of a substance called betacellulin in milk.
We now have a full speaker line-up for our eighth annual conference,
Wise Traditions 2007. Start planning now!
Features
Dr. Price’s
X Factor
Chris Masterjohn solves a sixty-year-old mystery
Conserving the
Digestive Fire
Katherine Czapp offers strategies for improved digestion
Copper-Zinc
Imbalance
Laurie Warner describes the challenge of embracing traditional diets
Departments
Letters
Caustic
Commentary
Sally Fallon and Mary Enig take on the Diet Dictocrats
From the Archives
King’s American Dispensary
on cod liver oil
Ask the Doctor
Tom Cowan on how to adjust
to a nourishing traditional diet
Know Your Fats
Mary Enig replies to
Brian Peskin
All Thumbs Book Reviews
Growing Wise Kids
Jen Allbritton on meal planning
strategies
Food Feature
Sally Fallon on cooking
with mystery meat
Soy Alert
Kaayla Daniel offers ideas for dealing
with soy allergies
NAIS Update
Judith McGeary reports on anti-NAIS
efforts state by state
A Campaign for Real Milk
Does betacellulin
in milk cause cancer? Chris Masterjohn replies to Loren Cordain
Healthy Baby Gallery
Local
Chapter Updates
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