The Weston A. Price Foundation

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The Weston A. Price Foundation is a "nonprofit, tax-exempt charity founded in 1999 to disseminate the research of nutrition pioneer Dr. Weston A. Price.". Dr. Weston A. Price (1870-1948) was a Cleveland dentist and nutrition research pioneer. The Foundation's website describes him as a person "whose studies of isolated nonindustrialized peoples established the parameters of human health and determined the optimum characteristics of human diets." It goes on to state that "Dr. Price's research demonstrated that humans achieve perfect physical form and perfect health generation after generation only when they consume nutrient-dense whole foods and the vital fat-soluble activators found exclusively in animal fats."

The Foundation disseminates information on their views:

  1. the dangers of soybeans (especially in infant formula),
  2. the cause of heart disease, cancer, and other degenerative diseases,
  3. the importance of animal fat to humanity throughout pre-history,
  4. the destructive effects of monoculture and the advantages of mixed farms,
  5. the influence of corporations on dietary opinion in governmental agencies, and
  6. criticisms of fad diets.

It supports a ban on soy infant formula, supports certified raw milk. It also supports more informative labeling requirements. The organization is an active lobby in Washington, DC on issues such as government food triangle definition and composition of school lunch programs.

Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon, head of the Weston A. Price Foundation, provides recipe recommendations following the nutritional principles of Dr. Price. It focuses on probiotics in the form of lactic acid fermented vegetables or milk, sprouting grains, and grass-fed meats (high in omega-3 fatty acids) as well as reducing sugar intake and avoiding "new-fangled" and processed foods.

[edit] Criticisms

In 2002, Stephen Barrett of the website Quackwatch published an internet essay containing three-paragraphs that discounted the dental research findings of Weston A. Price in the 1930s as "quackery".[1] WAPF published an 8-point response in the Fall 2005 journal Wise Traditions[2].

The anti-vegetarian and anti-soy views of the Weston A. Price Foundation have had counter-views expressed in several vegetarian and vegan magazines and communities ([1], [2], [3]). The views expressed in "The Myths of Vegetarianism" by Dr. Stephen Byrnes has a counter-view expressed in "A Response to Stephen Byrnes' "The Myths of Vegetarianism"" by "Andrew P".

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ "Holistic Dentistry" by Stephen Barrett
  2. ^ "The Right Price" by Sally Fallon, Volume 6, Number 3, p.17 - Back issues of the journal appear online once printed issues are sold out. A fair use copy is available online here.

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