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About The Weston A. Price Foundation
The Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) is your source for accurate information on nutrition and health, always aiming to provide the scientific validation of traditional foodways. People seeking health today often condemn certain food groups — such as grains, dairy foods, meat, salt, fat, sauces, sweets and nightshade vegetables — but the Wise Traditions Diet is inclusive, not exclusive.
Dr. Price’S Three Basic Principles
South Sea Islanders
(whose extraordinary health was studied by Dr. Price)
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Dr. Weston A. Price formulated three basic dietary principles informed by his pioneering investigations of healthy, non-industrialized peoples.
They are as follows:
1) Healthy traditional diets do not contain any processed or devitalized food.
There were no refined or artificial sweeteners, white flour products, processed vegetable oils, trans fats, pasteurized or homogenized milk, low-fat foods, canned foods, microwaved foods, irradiated foods, industrial additives, pesticides, herbicides, or synthetic vitamins in healthy traditional diets.
2) All healthy traditional diets contained animal foods of some kind.
None of the healthy peoples Dr. Price studied followed a vegan or vegetarian diet.
3) The diets were nutrient-dense, containing very high levels of vitamins and minerals.
Perhaps his most surprising discovery was the fact that primitive diets contained extremely high levels of three fat-soluble vitamins—vitamins A, D and a third fat-soluble vitamin he labeled “Activator X,” now believed to be vitamin K2. Foods containing these vitamins include oily fish, fish heads and fish organs, fish eggs, fish liver oils (such as cod liver oil), shellfish, insects, and butter, egg yolks, organ meats and fats from animals raised in the sunlight and eating green grass. (Vitamin K2 is also found in some fermented foods, such as natto and sauerkraut.) Traditional peoples considered these types of foods as sacred, recognizing them as vital to good health, actively sought after and deliberately consumed.