The Weston A. Price Foundation

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The logo of the Weston A. Price Foundation, representing three faces superimposed over a map of the world. The middle section represents the narrow face of someone brought up on industrialised food. The face is positioned over North America where many of these foods originated.
The logo of the Weston A. Price Foundation, representing three faces superimposed over a map of the world. The middle section represents the narrow face of someone brought up on industrialised food. The face is positioned over North America where many of these foods originated.

The Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) was co-founded in 1999 by Sally Fallon and nutritionist Mary G. Enig. It is a US 501(c)(3) "nonprofit, tax-exempt food and nutrition education organization dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods through research education and activism."[1]

Its goals include publicizing the research of dentist and nutritional thinker Dr. Weston A. Price and the dietary advice stemming from Price's research, and supporting the scientific validation of traditional diets.

In July of 2007 the Weston A. Price Foundation launched the Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the rights of farmers to provide meat, eggs, raw dairy products, vegetables and other foods directly to consumers. [2]

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[edit] Weston Price

Main article: Weston Price

Price was a dentist and nutritionist whose work Nutritional and Physical Degeneration describes the fieldwork he did in the 1920s and 1930s among various world cultures, with the original goal of recording and studying the dental hygiene and development of pre-industrial populations including tribal Africans and Pacific islanders, Inuit, North and South American natives, and Australian aborigines.

[edit] The Weston A. Price Foundation

The WAPF has 7 board members, numerous honorary board members and more than 200[citation needed] chapters in the United States and worldwide.[3]

According to foundation literature, the organization has dedicated itself to "restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human diet... [and] supporting particular movements that contribute to this objective including accurate nutrition instruction, organic and biodynamic farming, pasture-feeding of livestock, community-supported farms, honest and informative labelling, prepared parenting and nurturing therapies.

Specific goals include establishment of universal access to clean, certified raw milk and a ban on the use of soy in infant formulas.

The organization is an active lobby in Washington, DC on issues such as government food triangle definition and composition of school lunch programs."[4]

[edit] Funding / Sponsorships

The main sources of support for the Weston A. Price Foundation are the dues and contributions of its members. The Foundation does not receive funding from the government or the food processing and agribusiness industries. It does accept sponsorships, exhibitors and advertising from small companies by invitation, whose products are in line with WAPF principles. [5] [6]

[edit] Dietary recommendations

The foundation's recommendations include the consumption of unprocessed or minimally-processed foods, traditional fats (animal fats, dairy fats, olive oil, and fish oils, among others), raw dairy products, soured or lacto-fermented dairy and vegetables, organic vegetables and fruits, soaked or soured grains, and bone stocks.[7] The Foundation is known for its positive stance towards the consumption of saturated fats from traditional foods.[8]

[edit] Campaign for Real Milk

The foundation is one of the primary advocates for the legal availability of raw milk, maintaining a specific advocacy website for that purpose.[9]

[edit] Criticisms and responses

The anti-vegetarian and anti-soy views of the foundation have attracted counter-views by some in the vegetarian and vegan communities.[10][11] The foundation's views were expressed by Stephen Byrnes on "The Myths of Vegetarianism". This was followed in an article by Andrew Paterson, entitled "A Response to Stephen Byrnes' 'The Myths of Vegetarianism'".

[edit] Key associates

[edit] Sally Fallon

Sally Fallon is the co-founder and president of The Weston A. Price Foundation. According to the WAPF, she received a B.A. in English from Stanford University and a M.A. in English from UCLA.[12] She co-authored two cookbooks with WAPF co-founder Mary G. Enig -- "Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats"[13] and "Eat fat, Lose fat: lose weight and feel great with three delicious, science-based coconut diets," the latter of which are diets based on coconut.[14]

[edit] Mary Enig

See Mary G. Enig

[edit] Bruce Fife

Bruce Fife is a certified nutritionist (C.N.), a naturopathic doctor (N.D.) and an advocate for dietary consumption of coconut. He is the director of the Southern Colorado chapter of The Weston A. Price Foundation and also director of the Coconut Research Center, a nonprofit organization with the goal of educating the public and the scientific community on claimed nutritional and health benefits of coconut. Fife is the author of "The Coconut Miracle".

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Page 4, Comments to the 2005 US Dietary Guidlines Advisory Committee
  2. ^ Farm-to-Consumer Legal Defense Fund
  3. ^ The Weston A. Price Foundation - Board of Directors
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  5. ^ The Weston A. Price Foundation - Funding
  6. ^ The Weston A. Price Foundation - 2007 Conference Sponsorships
  7. ^ Basic Nutrition: Dietary Guidelines
  8. ^ WAPF: Know Your Fats
  9. ^ WAPF Campaign for Real Milk
  10. ^ http://www.foodrevolution.org/what_about_soy.htm
  11. ^ http://www.vegsource.com/talk/soy/messages/126.html
  12. ^ The Weston A. Price Foundation - Board of Directors
  13. ^ Sally Fallon, with Dr Mary Enig (contributing editor), Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats, (NewTrends Publishing, October 1999). ISBN 0-96708-973-5, ISBN-13: 978-0967089737
  14. ^ Dr Mary Enig and Sally Fallon: Eat fat, Lose fat: lose weight and feel great with three delicious, science-based coconut diets, Plume, ISBN 0-45228-566-6

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