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Volume 4, Number 1, Spring 2003

The "How-To" Issue

President's Message

Have you ever noticed that most diet schemes proposed today tell you about something you shouldn’t eat? The official government diet says we shouldn’t eat saturated fats. Other schemes prohibit meat or dairy or grains or anything that is sweet. Some dietary gurus say not to eat salt, or spices, or cooked foods, or fish, nuts, or nightshade vegetables. And almost all nutrition writers quite rightly warn against modern soft drinks.

Our goal at the Weston A. Price Foundation is not to tell you what you can’t eat, but how to include as many wonderful foods as possible in your diet. We’ve dealt with the shibboleth of saturated fats in many issues. In fact, the first challenge to anyone who wants to eat a healthy diet is to get over any fears they may have of sat-urated fats found in animal foods and in the tropical oils. In spite of what we’ve been told, these foods are very healthy and are vital to human health.

This issue focuses on "how to" rather than "can’t"--how to prepare your grains so that they don’t cause health problems, how to prepare soft drinks that are actually healthy. Kaayla Daniel discusses the wonderful health benefits of gelatin and how gelatin-rich broth makes all the foods we eat, including meat, more digestible. Peter Knutson talks about healthy sea food while Lori Lipinski tells us why modern milk should be avoided, and how to incorporate healthy dairy foods in the diet. Through our ongoing Campaign for Real Milk, we are making those dairy foods more available.

We’ll be featuring many of these delicious foods at our upcoming conference, May 3-5. Monica Corrado of The Basic Feast is preparing a wonderful hearty chicken soup made with homemade broth and Chef John Umlauf will regale us at our banquet with a memorable lamb stew in a broth-based sauce. You’ll taste genuine saurkraut, sour dough bread, artisanal cheeses and old fashioned, lacto-fermented soft drinks.

This year the entire conference is under one roof, the newly renovated Sheraton National Hotel, easily accessible by shuttle bus from National Airport and the Pentagon City metro station. We’ll be providing child care so that parents of young children can attend.

You won’t want to miss our all-star lineup of speakers--Dr. Uffe Ravnskov, author of The Cholesterol Myths, Dr. Paul Rosch, President of the American Society of Stress, Dr. Kilmer McCully, author of The Heart Revolution and our own Dr. Mary Enig, all on Saturday plus a triple track of speakers on Sunday.

Space is limited, so don’t wait until the last minute to register. If you need us to send you more conference brochures, call us at the office at (202) 363-4394. See you there!

FEATURES

Our Daily Bread
Katherine Czapp and Garrick Ginzburg-Voskov tell us how to make the genuine article

Wheaty Indiscretions
Jen Allbritten looks at what happens to wheat, from seed to table

Why Broth is Beautiful
Kaayla Daniel describes the benefits of gelatin in broth

Real Soft Drinks
Charles Eisentein on the practicalities of lacto-fermented sodas

The Business of Wild Salmon
Peter Knutson describes how independent fishers are escaping the corporate net

DEPARTMENTS

President’s Message
Not can’t, but how

Letters

Caustic Commentary
Sally Fallon and Mary Enig, PhD take on the Diet Dictocrats

All Thumbs Book Reviews
Thumbs Down: Eat, Drink and Be Healthy: The Harvard Medical School Guide
to Healthy Eating
by Walter Willett

Ask the Doctor
Dr. Tom Cowan on gall bladder problems

Soy Alert!
Sally Fallon talks about the latest studies

Federal Update
Bill Sanda on upcoming Congressional testimony

In the Kitchen with Mother Linda
Rhubarb Reminiscences

Making the Transition
Lori Lipinski looks at dairy products

A Campaign for Real Milk (on www.realmilk.com)
What’s happening in the US and overseas

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