Weston Price: The benefits of trad. diets focusing on tp 2 diabetes

Wifezilla

Low-Carb Queen - RIP: 1963-2021
Joined
Jan 3, 2009
Messages
8,928
Reaction score
16
Points
270
Location
Colorado
I used to hate liver. Now, I cook it in butter with rosemary and cream sauce topped with parm and it is DELICIOUS!
 

big brown horse

Hoof In Mouth
Joined
Apr 23, 2009
Messages
8,307
Reaction score
0
Points
213
Location
Puget Sound, WA
freemotion said:
It is amazing what eating what our great-great-great-grandparents ate does for our bodies. I think it is so cool that Dr. Price began his research believing that the healthiest peoples would of course be vegans. I used to think the same way, even though I didn't feel right if I ate vegan for only ONE DAY. I tried really hard to go veg, just couldn't do it. Now I know why it didn't work for me.

He found that the healthiest ate a variety of foods, and a commonality among those healthiest was that they ate meat with fat, always with the fat. The least healthy of the groups were mostly vegetarian, but ate insects, grubs, and such. No thank you!

The one thing I can't do that all the healthiest peoples did is to eat the organ meats. :sick I will have to shoot for ten of the eleven commonalities for now!
Free, sounds like you have not had southern fried gizzards then have you? :p

Tonight I baked an organic chicken and I was so happy to see they packed it with the heart and gizzards! Woohoo!

I was a vegan for 2 years, and I was miserable and FAT! I was raised as a vegetarian but we ate fresh eggs, real butter and raw milk from the dairy down the road...yum! I never had to go to the dr as a child. It wasn't until I switched to that all-vegan diet that many of my health problems started...including weight gain and memory loss...go figure. :/
 

Henrietta23

Yard Farmer
Joined
Oct 13, 2008
Messages
6,707
Reaction score
15
Points
240
Location
Eastern CT
Wifezilla said:
Here is a link to Weston Price's book...
http://www.journeytoforever.org/farm_library/price/pricetoc.html
You can read it for free online.

The same thing that Weston Price saw in his journeys is also documented in Good Calories Bad Calories by Gary Taubes.

He talks about the Pima Indians and the Tokelau Atoll natives. Both of these cultures were isolated and had fantastic health UNTIL they began getting food stuffs from Westerners. Primarily sugar and white flour.


I am so glad you like Barry's book. I have been in contact via email a couple of times. He really has his head on straight :D
I can't thank you enough for the recommendation. It's so straight forward it's easy to make sense of it all!
 

Occamstazer

Almost Self-Reliant
Joined
Nov 11, 2009
Messages
690
Reaction score
0
Points
108
Location
Prattville, Alabama
I didn't just fall off the wagon today. I fell off, got run over, and the ox pooped on me while I was on the ground.

Sweet tea. Potato casserole with lunch. Gawd, my mouth is watering just remembering it.
And strawberry trifle.

The ham and green beans I feel good about.

So while I'm a terrible terrible person today, and I'm going to pay for it, I totally agree with you guys.

It's a bit difficult sometimes to eat right on days when I'm stuck on campus all day. I've been known to run in the campus grocery store and leave with a bag of spring mix and a bag of lunchmeat. I get some weird looks in the library, but who cares? :lol:
 

Henrietta23

Yard Farmer
Joined
Oct 13, 2008
Messages
6,707
Reaction score
15
Points
240
Location
Eastern CT
It's tough on a holiday! I stuck to the ham and asparagus, but just had to sample the scalloped potatoes. Usually my mom makes them and under cooks the potatoes, but today I made them since she has a broken wrist. I made them with fresh Jersey cream and real butter and oh MAN were they good!! I had an uncured ham which I was really impressed with. The flavor was awesome!
I made a GF cake from a mix for DS's birthday and frosted it with cream cheese/stevia frosting. Everyone loved it. I did have a small piece.
Back on the wagon tomorrow!
 

Occamstazer

Almost Self-Reliant
Joined
Nov 11, 2009
Messages
690
Reaction score
0
Points
108
Location
Prattville, Alabama
Henrietta23 said:
It's tough on a holiday! I stuck to the ham and asparagus, but just had to sample the scalloped potatoes. Usually my mom makes them and under cooks the potatoes, but today I made them since she has a broken wrist. I made them with fresh Jersey cream and real butter and oh MAN were they good!! I had an uncured ham which I was really impressed with. The flavor was awesome!
I made a GF cake from a mix for DS's birthday and frosted it with cream cheese/stevia frosting. Everyone loved it. I did have a small piece.
Back on the wagon tomorrow!
Does that mean I have until midnight to gobble on my easter basket full of chocolate?
 

Henrietta23

Yard Farmer
Joined
Oct 13, 2008
Messages
6,707
Reaction score
15
Points
240
Location
Eastern CT
Occamstazer said:
Henrietta23 said:
It's tough on a holiday! I stuck to the ham and asparagus, but just had to sample the scalloped potatoes. Usually my mom makes them and under cooks the potatoes, but today I made them since she has a broken wrist. I made them with fresh Jersey cream and real butter and oh MAN were they good!! I had an uncured ham which I was really impressed with. The flavor was awesome!
I made a GF cake from a mix for DS's birthday and frosted it with cream cheese/stevia frosting. Everyone loved it. I did have a small piece.
Back on the wagon tomorrow!
Does that mean I have until midnight to gobble on my easter basket full of chocolate?
Um, sure, if I get to sneak another one of DS's Peeps......
 

freemotion

Food Guru
Joined
Jan 1, 2009
Messages
10,817
Reaction score
90
Points
317
Location
Southwick, MA
Occam, once you have ox poop and tire tracks on you, you are allowed all the chocolate you can eat in one sitting! :lol:
 

Henrietta23

Yard Farmer
Joined
Oct 13, 2008
Messages
6,707
Reaction score
15
Points
240
Location
Eastern CT
freemotion said:
Rosemary livers? Southern fried GIZZARDS????? Sorry, ladies, but....ewwwwwww!!!!
Free, it must be the northerner in us. I'm with you.....
I do like liverworst and scrapple, but I suppose those are too processed to be considered traditional? (Crossing fingers and hoping for an excuse to eat scrapple.......)
 
Top