Now I have terrific health, thanks to my paleo / primal /
Price diet of whole foods.
Not exact matches
When there are quality studies that where subjects actually eat a
whole food plant based
diet of roughly 70 % — 80 % carbohydrates, 10 % — 15 % fat and 10 % — 15 % protein along with consumption
of at least 40 grams
of fiber a day (any less and it would be an indicator that the subjects were eating substantial amounts
of highly refined plant
foods), and those studies show that
diets like Atkins or Paleo or Weston -
Price result in better cholesterol, blood pressure, blood sugar (both fasting and post-prandial) then I will start paying attention to them.
This is one
of the most important lessons
of Price's research — that a mixed
diet of whole foods, one that avoids the extremes
of the carnivorous Masai and the largely vegetarian Bantu, ensures optimum physical development.
«From the chemical standpoint,» the critical difference between «efficient» native
diets and
diets characterized by the «displacing
foods of modern commerce,» according to Dr.
Price, was that «all the efficient dietaries were found to contain two to six times as high a factor
of safety in the matter
of bodybuilding material, as the displacing
foods» (emphasis added).11 The
foods that served a «bodybuilding» purpose varied substantially according to the group and location studied, but in all instances, traditional societies emphasized the most nutrient - dense land and sea animal and plant
foods that could be obtained in their context, ranging from the exceptionally high - vitamin dairy products,
whole rye sourdough bread and occasional meat
of the isolated Swiss to the fish, cereals and sweet potatoes
of Kenya's Maragoli tribe.
In Let
Food Be Thy Medicine, Jack cites Weston
Price in support
of a
diet that omits «beef,
whole milk and eggs» in favor
of lowfat, high - fiber vegetarian
foods.14 In his description
of Price's work, he makes no mention
of the emphasis that
Price puts on animal
foods.
Ms. Minger's article is on the Westonaprice.org website, a website dedicated to the career
of Weston A
Price, a dentist who carried out research primarily on the relationship between nutrition and dental health and advocated a «nutrient dense
whole foods diet», key to which was animal fats, as the
diet for optimal health.
The Scoop: This website, based on the work
of Dr. Weston A
Price, is packed with detailed information and evidence about the importance
of whole food, ancestral
diets.
Her parents William and Jenelle eat a
whole food diet along the lines
of Weston A
Price and Maria has followed in these footsteps.