Weston A. Price Foundation
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The Weston A. Price Foundation is, according to its website, a "nutrition education foundation." This nutrition education includes claiming that eating lots of fat, meat, and raw (but not pasteurized) dairy is healthy, and that natural things are better than "artificial" ones.[1][2][3]
The Weston A. Price Foundation is unrelated to the Weston A. Price Memorial Foundation, which is the old name of the Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation.
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[edit] What they're for
The WAPF promotes various ideas and therapies, such as:
- Homeopathy[4]
- Chemophobia
- Raw milk
- "Natural" supplements[5]
- Coconut and palm oils[6]
- High-fat diets (similar to many low-carb diets)[6]
- The absolutely, positively, categorically undeniable fact that the modern increase in cancer rates is due to the grains in our diets[1]
- Cholesterol and saturated fat[7]
- Sunlight preventing melanoma[8]
- "Eat only foods that will spoil, but eat them before they do."[5]
- Unrefined Celtic sea salt[5]
Some of the WAPF's nutrition guidelines are very similar to those of the Cancer Control Society.[9]
[edit] What they're against
Things they don't like include:
- Veganism/vegetarianism
- Monosodium glutamate[3]
- Soy[3]
- Canola, corn, and cottonseed oil
- Fluoridated water
- Aspartame
- "Synthetic vitamins and foods containing them"
- Agave[2]
- High-fructose corn syrup
- Trans fat
- Microwaves, polyunsaturated oils, white rice, pasteurized milk, and numerous other things.[6]
[edit] External links
- Their homepage
- Weston A. Price Foundation, article on SourceWatch
[edit] Footnotes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 A Holistic Approach to Cancer, Tom Cowan.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Agave Nectar: Worse Than We Thought, Sally Fallon Morell and Rami Nagel, The Weston A. Price Foundation.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Soy Alert!
- ↑ http://www.westonaprice.org/homeopathy
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Dietary Guidelines, Weston A. Price Foundation.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Principles of Healthy Diets
- ↑ What's Wrong with "Politically Correct" Nutrition?
- ↑ Sunlight and Melanoma, William Campbell Douglass.
- ↑ cancer control society prevention diet