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NATIVE NUTRITION
| Posted on 25 October, 2014 at 2:44 |
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ANOTHER EXCELLENT ARTICLE TAKEN FROM LYN MCTAGGART'S AMAZING BOOK: 'WHAT DOCTOR'S DON'T TELL YOU.' "BECAUSE MOST DIETARY RECOMMENDATIONS ARE FADDISH, YOUR SAFEST BET IS TO FOLLOW SOME OF THE BASIC DIETARY PRINCIPLES SHARED BY MANY HEALTHY NATIVE POPULATIONS. IN HIS BOOK: 'NATIVE NUTRITION ; EATING ACCORDING TO ANCESTRAL WISDOM' (HEALING ARTS PRESS), NATUROPATH RONALD F. SCHMID, EXAMINES STUDIES NATIVE POPULATIONS BY WESTON PRICE AND DR FRANCIS M. POTTENGER: ESKIMOS OF ALASKA, THE SWISS OF THE LOETSCHENTAL VALLEY, NATIVE AMERICANS, AFRICANS, AND SOUTH SEA ISLANDERS. ALL THESE POPULATIONS, WHICH LIVED ON FRESH FRUITS AND VEGETABLES, GRAINS, WILD GAME AND FISH OR HEALTHY, FREE-ROAMING ANIMALS AND, IN SOME CASES, FRESH, UNPROCESSED DAIRY PRODUCTS, WERE OR ARE IMPRESSIVE FOR THEIR STRONG, HEALTHY BODIES, STRAIGHT PERFECT TEETH AND FREEDOM FROM DEGENERATIVE DISEASES PLAGUING US NOWADAYS IN THE WEST. ALTHOUGH, THEIR DIETS VARIED ENORMOUSLY (THE AFRICAN MAASAI MAINLY EAT MEAT, MILK AND BLOOD, WHILE TRADITIONAL MAORI OF NEW ZEALAND EAT FISH, KELP AND ROOTS), THEY SHARE SIMILARITIES. ACCORDING TO AMERICAN DIETARY EXPERT ANNEMARIE COLBIN IN HER EXCELLENT BOOK 'FOOD AND HEALING' (BALLANTINE), ALL THESE NATIVE DIETS HAVE IN COMMON FOOD THAT IS FRESH (OR PRESERVED NATURALLY, WHETHER SMOKED, DRIED OR PICKLED): IT IS GROWN LOCALLY AND ORGANICALLY, IN SEASON: AND IT IS COOKED BY TRADITIONAL METHODS. WHENEVER POSSIBLE, EAT FRESH WHOLE FOODS AND ESCHEW PACKAGED AND PROCESSED FOODS, ANYTHING THAT HAS BEEN ADDED TO, REFINED, ENRICHED OR IN SOME WAY INTERFERED WITH. THIS WOULD INCLUDE MOST PROCESSED BAKED GOODS, CANNED SAUCES, COMMERCIAL PEANUT BUTTER, SWEETS, 'CHEESE' FOODS, CRISPS AND CORN CHIPS. ESPECIALLY STEER CLEAR OF ANYTHING SUCH AS MARGARINES WHOSE LABELS LIST NON-FOODS SUCH AS PARTIALLY HYDROGENATED VEGETABLE OILS. THERE IS NO HEALTH REASONS TO CUT OUT OR LIMIT EGGS (SO LONG AS THEY ARE FREE-RANGE), WHICH ARE AN EXCELLENT SOURCE OF PROTEIN. OTHERWISE, EAT A WIDE VARIETY OF FOODS, SORT OUT YOUR FOOD ALLERGIES BEFOREHAND, AND CUT DOWN ON ANIMAL FATS AS THE CENTREPIECE OF YOUR MEALS. IN GENERAL, MOST EUROPEAN OILS ARE LESS REFINED THAN THOSE PRODUCED IN THE US. IN FACT, THE SAFEST COURSE IS TO COOK WITH EXTRA VIRGIN OLIVE OIL THAT IS STILL MADE BY TRADITIONAL METHODS." STAY TUNED IN FOR MORE GREAT EXERTS FROM LYN'S BOOK, COMING VERY SOON... BLESSINGS |