Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[su do <speakingbeareturns@yahoo.com>]

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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