Recommended Reading:
Nourishing Traditions
by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig

Sally Fallon has devoted years to researching traditional cooking methods. She also served as editor of the Price Pottinger Nutritional Foundation. Mary Enig is a world-renowned biochemist and the author of Know Your Fats.

At first glance Nourishing Traditions looks like any other cookbook, however it is an entire food and nutritional encyclopedia. The book includes excellent recipes and sidebars of health tips on every page. A guide for vegetarians and meat eaters alike, the book also has thorough references and an appendix with suggested reading. It has a listing of food sources. Throughout the book there is a quiz of food ingredients, with answers listed in the back of the book.

The key premise: modern food choices, preparations, and technology are very different than the way we were nourished 1,000 years ago.

Traditional diets were studies by Dr. Weston Price in the 1930s. Several factors in common were observed in different civilizations. They ate seafood, animal proteins, and fats in the form of organ meats and dairy products. They ate fruits, vegetables, legumes, seeds, and whole grains in their whole unrefined state. Bone broths were also common.

Out of 14 groups, Irish, Swiss, Eskimos, Africans, and others enjoyed good health. When these groups moved or became civilized, disease, tooth decay, and chronic ailments arose.

Based on Price's studies, recipes supporting all the foods just listed are included in the author's recipes.

A question she addresses is what is politically correct nutrition? As an example, she questions the lip service to the evidence of sugar as a major cause of diseases, yet the food industries spare the soda industry.

Who are the diet dictocrats? Researchers and spokesmen for various government agencies, such as the FDA, AMA, ACS, and AHA speak with one voice. Their general guidelines include the USDA Food Pyramid. Yet there are errors that are built into the edifice of the Pyramid. For example, the guidelines imply everyone can eat the same foods and same portions and be healthy. We in Metabolic Typing know differently.

Most nutritional cookbooks follow the guidelines of the diet dictocrats. This cookbook reaches beyond, incorporating past cultures and their culinary traditions. The recipes serve as a new delicacies for contemporary eating habits.

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