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  • From: su do <speakingbeareturns@yahoo.com>
  • To: Healthy soil and sustainable growing <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [Livingontheland] Growing all your own food - nutrition
  • Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 05:30:17 -0800 (PST)

I think common sense is all that's needed. Prcocessed
food is a no-no, fresh is best, and eat in moderation.
--- Harvey Ussery <boxwood@nelsoncable.com> wrote:

> >
> > The trouble
> > is there is so much advice about what to eat and
> what not, what pills to take
> > or what exercise to do. Which leads to a
> creeping suspicion that much of
> > it is not serious. ~Dieter
>
> This is always the kicker--people have grown weary
> with so much
> contradictory theory, so many gurus trying to get
> rich pushing a fad.
> Information fatigue, theory fatigue, fad fatigue,
> magic-bullet fatigue.
> Where can we find a solid guiding principle to help
> us sort it all out?
>
> I'm really impressed with the work Weston A. Price
> did, 14 studies of
> indigenous peoples the world over, all of them
> enjoying almost perfect
> health, before their inundation by Western foods.
> Seems to me *that's*
> the key--finding out how people eating the same way
> their ancestors did
> for thousands of years, without access to industrial
> foods, innocent of
> theories about what are wise or stupid ways to
> eat--managed to enjoy a
> level of health we can only dream of. Then use the
> fundamental
> characteristics of those diets as a guide to our own
> eating.
>
> For starters: Whole, natural foods rather than
> ersatz, highly
> manipulated imitations. The wholesomeness of
> traditional fats, in lieu
> of the fats in supermarket food today (some of which
> didn't even exist
> in our grandparents' day). Microbes, far from being
> a threat to food,
> can be beneficial. The critical importance of
> "supercharging" young
> people of reproductive age with nutrients,
> especially pregnant and
> lactating mothers.
>
> For starters: http://westonaprice.org/
>
> ~Harvey
>
>
> --
> Harvey in northern Va
> www.themodernhomestead.us
>
> "Can't you see those dark clouds gathering up ahead?
> They're gonna wash this planet clean, like the Bible
> said.
> Now you can hold on steady, try to get ready,
> But everybody's gonna get wet--
> Don't think it won't happen just because it hasn't
> happened yet!" (Jackson Browne)
>
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