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The Paleo craze has taken over the world. Sally Fallon Morell, bestselling author of Nourishing Traditions®, Nourishing Broth, and Nourishing Fats asks curious dieters to look back to their ancestors’ eating habits to discover a “new” way to eat that shuns grains, most dairy, and processed foods

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Green Pastures, Contented Cows and Raw Dairy Foods

This fascinating and compelling book will change the way you think about milk. Dr. Schmid chronicles the role of milk in the rise of civilization and in early America, the distillery dairies, compulsory pasteurization and the politics of milk, traditional dairying cultures and the modern dairy industry. He details the betrayal of public trust by government health officials and dissects the modern myths concerning cholesterol, animal fats and heart disease. And in the final chapters, he describes how scores of eminent scientists have documented the superiority of raw milk and its myriad health benefits.

Raw milk is a movement whose time has come. This book will serve as a catalyst for that movement – a movement that could change the life of every individual who comes to fully understand the value of raw milk from healthy, grassfed animals.”

— SALLY FALLON, author of Nourishing Traditions

and President of the Weston A. Price Foundation

Ron Schmid, ND, naturopathic physician, writer, teacher, and farmer, has prescribed raw milk for his patients for nearly 25 years. The author of Traditional Foods Are Your Best Medicine, Dr. Schmid is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the National College of Naturopathic Medicine and has taught at all four of America’s naturopathic medical schools. He’s the former Clinic Director and Chief Medical Officer at the University of Bridgeport College of Naturopathic Medicine.

The Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF), co-founded in 1999 by Sally Fallon (Morell) and nutritionist Mary G. Enig, is a U.S. 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to "restoring nutrient-dense foods to the American diet through education, research and activism."^[2]

The foundation has been criticized by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its advocacy of drinking raw milk^[3] and by various nutritionists, including Joel Fuhrman, for its advocacy of the health benefits of animal-based fats.

Weston Price

Main article: Weston Price

Price was a dentist from Cleveland, Ohio, whose 1939 book, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration,^[4] describes the fieldwork he did in the 1920s and 1930s among various world cultures, with the original goal of recording and studying the dental health and development of pre-industrial populations .^[4]

Organization

The President of the foundation is Sally Fallon Morell. According to the WAPF, she received a B.A. in English from Stanford University and an M.A. in English from UCLA.^[5]

The foundation has seven board members and numerous honorary board members, most of whom have medical or nutritional qualifications.^[5][6] In 2010, its membership numbered 13,000 and was growing at an annual rate of 10%, according to The Washington Post.^[7]

Its main sources of support are the dues and contributions of its members. It does not receive funding from the government or the food processing and agribusiness industries. It does accept sponsorships, exhibitors and advertising from small companies by invitation, whose products are in line with its principles.^[8][9] The sponsors include grass-fed meat and wild fish producers, as well as health product companies.

The foundation states it is dedicated to "restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human diet... [and] supporting particular movements that contribute to this objective including accurate nutrition instruction, biodynamic and organic farming, pasture-feeding of livestock, community-supported agriculture, honest and informative labelling, prepared parenting and nurturing therapies. Specific goals include establishment of universal access to certified raw milk and a ban on the use of soy in infant formulas. The organization actively lobbies in Washington DC on issues such as government USDA dietary guidelines definition and composition of school lunch programs."^[10]

Publications

The WAPF publishes a quarterly journal called Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts, ʼ an annual shopping guide which lists products made from organic, non-GMO ingredients, and are prepared using traditional and artisan methods.

Dietary recommendations

Activism

The Weston A. Price Foundation is a lobbying group that seeks to ban infant soy formula, and advocates a nutrient-dense diet of whole foods, including animal fats. Board of Directors member Kaayla Daniel has released a book titled: The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food.^[13]

Further information: United States raw milk debate

The Foundation is an advocate for the consumption of unpasteurized milk, or raw milk. One of its goals is to remove health regulations requiring pasteurization of milk products, so that raw milk can be legally purchased in all states. Supporters of this campaign believe pasteurization removes or destroys beneficial parts of raw milk, leading to a less healthy product that is associated with numerous diseases.^[14]

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Food and Drug Administration disagree with this, noting that the pasteurization process "does not significantly change the nutritional value of milk" and that consumption of raw milk poses a "severe health risk". They point out that prior to the widespread use of pasteurization, many diseases were commonly transmitted by raw milk, while by 2005 they made up less than 1% of food and water contamination disease outbreaks.^[15][16]. The director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Division of Plant- and Dairy-Food Safety, John Sheehan, called the organization's claims on the health benefits and safety of raw milk "false, devoid of scientific support, and misleading to consumers"^[3]

Established with the help of the Foundation in July 2007, the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund aims to protect the rights of farmers to provide meat, eggs, raw dairy products, vegetables and other foods directly to consumers. This includes protecting consumers' "freedom of choice to consume raw milk," according to Pete Kennedy, president of the Fund. In the first year of its operation, it raised over $350,000 and receives around three requests for assistance per week from farmers in the United States facing legal or bureaucratic challenges in relation to sales of raw milk.^[17]

Criticism

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John Robbins has written a critique in which he reviews the history of the Weston Price Foundation and provides evidence that Weston Price had recommended a vegetarian and dairy diet to his own family members as the healthiest diet.^[18] The foundation has cited Price to the effect that he did not recommend a vegetarian diet.^[19] The anti-vegetarian and anti-soy views of the foundation have also been criticized as "myths" in several publications.^[20][21][22]

Joel Fuhrman has written a series of articles entitled "The truth about the Weston Price Foundation" in which he argues the Foundation is a purveyor of "nutritional myths", largely because they have failed to update their recommendations in light of contradictory evidence.^[23]

Quackwatch describes the Foundation as promoting "questionable dietary strategies" and Price's core assumptions as contrary to contemporary medical understanding.^[24]

Science-Based Medicine evaluated the medical and nutritional claims of the Weston Price Foundation and concludes the website is "one of the worst on the internet" ^[25] due to misleading and false information.

Reference

"Weston A. Price Memorial Foundation" redirects here. It is not to be confused with Weston A. Price Foundation.

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Price-Pottenger Nutritional Foundation| |

Abbreviation	PPNF
Founded	1952
Type	Nonprofit organization
Headquarters	Lemon Grove, CA, United States
Area served	Natural health, alternative medicine, nutrition
Executive Director	Joel Dauteuil
Website	http://www.ppnf.org/

The Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation (PPNF) is a U.S. 501(c)(3) non-profit organization established "to teach the public and professionals about foods, lifestyle habits, healing modalities, and environmental practices that can help people attain vibrant health."^[1] Founded in 1952, it was first known as the Santa Barbara Medical Research Foundation and later renamed the Weston A. Price Memorial Foundation, in 1965, after the 20th century researcher Weston Price who emphasized the importance of nutrition for health and dentistry.^[2] The other half of the foundation's current namesake is Francis M. Pottenger, Jr. whose study of nutrition in cats sparked interest in a diet high in raw animal products including uncooked meats and unpasteurized dairy. In 1969, after Price's death, the organization became the Price Pottenger Foundation, and then the Price Pottenger Nutrition Foundationy.

PPNF primarily advocates: 1) that consumption of animal fats is not dangerous to human health, and 2) that mainstream agricultural methods which emphasize the use of synthetic fertilizers and pesticides as well as factory farming and significant processing of whole foods, reduces overall nutritional quality of food and human health. The first set of claims go against the mainstream scientific consensus among researchers, doctors, and nutritionists, that a diet high in saturated fat presents serious risks to cardiovascular health and longevity. The second set of claims is aligned with the increasingly popular organic food movement, although major food growers and producers consistently affirm the taste and nutritional quality of their food as identical or better than organics.

PPNF now houses over 10,000 books and publications, including the works of Dr. Royal Lee, Dr. Melvin Page, Dr. Emanuel Cheraskin, Dr. William Albrecht, and others. It owns and protects the copyrighd to the works by Price and Pottenger. They continue to republish Price's Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, and Pottenger's Pottenger's Cats – A Study in Nutrition.

Key individuals

Weston Price

Main article: Weston Price

Price was a dentist from Cleveland, Ohio, whose 1939 book, Nutritional and Physical Degeneration,^[3] describes the fieldwork he did in the 1920s and 1930s among various world cultures, with the original goal of recording and studying the dental health and development of pre-industrial populations.^[3]

Francis M. Pottenger, Jr.

Main article: Francis M. Pottenger, Jr.

Pottenger was a doctor whose 1932-1942 Pottenger Cat Study addressed the nutritive value of heat-labile elements — nutrients destroyed by heat and available only in raw foods. He used donated laboratory cats to test the potency of the adrenal extract hormones he was making. The adrenal glands of these cats were removed for the experiments, usually resulted their death. But Pottenger noted that most of the cats died during or following the operation. He was feeding the cats a supposedly nutritive diet consisting of raw milk, cod liver oil and cooked meat scraps of liver, tripe, sweetbread, brains, heart and muscle. When the number of donated cats exceeded the supply of food available, Pottenger began ordering raw meat scraps from a local meat packing plant, including organs, meat, and bone; and fed a separate group of cats from this supply. Within months this separate group appeared in better health than the cooked meat group. Pottenger conducted subsequent studies involving approximately 900 cats over a period of ten years, with three generations of cats studied. His experiments showed that cats were healthiest after being fed raw meat and raw dairy.

Pat Connolly

Marion Patricia ("Pat") Connolly was the curator for PPNF. She studied health and nutrition for over 66 years and lectured on a variety of nutritional subjects. According to the PPNF, she was the foremost authority on the work of Price and Pottenger. In 1962 she took a course on nutrition by Alfreda Rooke, then Curator of PPNF, who had studied under Price. In 1972, she became a PPNF Nutrition Instructor , teaching Rooke's course. She wrote several books, including Dietotherapy (The Kelley Research Foundation), Mini Guide To Living Foods, The Guide to Living Foods (PPNF), Food Alive (Livingston-Wheeler Medical Clinic), A Modern Approach to the Primitive Diet (Nero), and The Candida-Albicans Yeast-Free Cookbook (McGraw Hill). She was also listed as a co-author of the first edition of Nourishing Traditions. She died in November 2010. ^[4]

George Meinig

In 1994 George E. Meinig published Root Canal Cover-up Exposed which resurrected Price's old studies.^[5] Regarding the book, Hasselgren in New York Academy of Dentistry's Annals of dentistry stated "[t]he focal infection theory, supported by many including Dr. Price, has been attacked, debated, accepted, criticized, agreed upon, etc. but it has not been covered up." Hasselgren noted that Meinig would sometime confuse the meanings of "infection" and "inflammation" and based all his work on Price's 1923 Dental Infections, Oral and Systemic book.^[6] Hasselgrenalso observed: "the work of Dr. Weston Price is therefore still to a great extent valid and important and the role of infection can not be underestimated."^[6] Meinig died in May 2008 at the age of 93.

Publications and education

The PPNF houses an archive of books related to Price and Pottenger's work as well as the works of authors in related fields. It publishes its own journal, the Journal of Health and Healing.^[7] They also sell a variety of books, DVD, and CDs, publish an online newsletter, and offer classes.

Biography

Robbins is the son of Irma Robbins and Irv Robbins co-founder of Baskin-Robbins. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1969, and received a master's degree from Antioch College, in 1976. Rather than following the ice-cream parlor legacy of his father, he left the company to seek a simpler life. He and his wife Deo were married on March 10, 1967.^[2] Ocean Robbins, their son, is the founder of Food Revolution Network.^[3]

In 1987 Diet for a New America was published. In the book he advocates a plant-based vegan diet. Additionally, he gives his views on the meat and dairy industries, world hunger and human health. A year later he founded EarthSave (see below).

In 2001, Robbins updated and reiterated his views on veganism for ethical, environmental and health reasons in the book The Food Revolution. The book includes information on organic food, genetically modified food, and factory farming.

He worked with PETA in 2002 to sue the California Milk Advisory Board over its 'happy cows' television advertisement.^[4] The Milk Advisory Board won on a technicality.^[5]

His 2006 book Healthy at 100, published by Random House, was printed on 100% post-consumer non-chlorine bleached paper, a first for a book from a major U.S. publisher.

Robbins is also on the advisory board of Naked Food Magazine, for which he is also a regular contributor of articles espousing a plant-based diet.

EarthSave

In 1988, Robbins founded EarthSave, an international, non-profit organization. The organization was born out of the reader response to his Diet for a New America.^[6][7]

The organization works to promote healthy, environmentally sound food choices, produce independence from the medical system and raise awareness of "the ecological destruction and cruelty linked to the production of food animals."

EarthSave's head office is in New York, USA, with local chapters throughout the United States and Canada. "Taste of Health" is their annual vegetarian food festival.

Earthsave Canada was established as a registered non-profit charity in British Columbia in March 1990.^[8]

Books

Diet for a New America: How Your Food Choices Affect Your Health, Happiness and the Future of Life on Earth, (1987). ISBN 978-0915811816
May All Be Fed: Diet For a New World, (1992).
Reclaiming Our Health: Exploding the Medical Myth and Embracing the Source of True Healing, (1996).
The Awakened Heart: Meditations on Finding Harmony in a Changing World, 1997.
The Food Revolution: How Your Diet Can Help Save Your Life and Our World, 2001.
Healthy at 100: The Scientifically Proven Secrets of the World’s Healthiest and Longest-Lived Peoples, 2006.
The New Good Life: Living Better Than Ever in an Age of Less, (2010), Ballantine Books, 304 pages (ISBN 978-0345519849).
No Happy Cows: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the Food Revolution, 2012.
Voices of the Food Revolution: You Can Heal Your Body and Your World with Food! , (May 6, 2013)

Films

Diet for a New America (1991) featuring Michael Klaper, T. Colin Campbell, and John A. McDougall
Super Size Me by Morgan Spurlock has a short interview with Robbins.^[9]

raw milk

Green Pastures, Contented Cows and Raw Dairy Foods

Contents

Weston Price

Organization

Publications

Dietary recommendations

Activism

Criticism

See also

Reference

Contents

Key individuals

Weston Price

Francis M. Pottenger, Jr.

Pat Connolly

George Meinig

Publications and education

See also

"Moobs"; Man Boobs and Soy - The Weston A. Price Foundation

#39 Recovering from Soy with Kaayla Daniel - Myersdetox.com

A Vegan Doctor Addresses Soy Myths and Misinformation

The Dark Side of Soy - Utne Reader

Should you drink soy or cow's milk? Here's what the evidence says ...

An update on soy: It's just so-so - Harvard Health

No, Eating Soy Isn't Going to Give You Manboobs - VICE

An unusual case of gynecomastia associated with soy product ... - NCBI

Does Soy Really Cause Man Boobs? - Men's Journal

Contents

Biography

EarthSave

Books

Films

See also