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AaranaKinsley wrote: I prefer to leave that crowd alone and let them continue indulging their taste for fiction in the manner they've chosen.
JeffN wrote:Don J. Brix wrote:Jeff, For the past several months, I've been reading lots about low-fat, plant-based nutrition (i.e., McDougall, Campbell, N. Barnard, etc.) Recently, I heard of the Weston Price group and their position. I decided to look into it and came across a critique of vegitarianism by Stephen Byrnes. It's remarkable in the extent to which he seems to diametrically oppose , not just McDougall/Campbell recomendations, but lots of the expert opinion that's been around for many years now. Here's an example, "it is usually claimed that a diet rich in plant foods like whole grains and legumes will reduce one's risks for cancer, but research going back to the last century demonstrates that carbohydrate-based diets are the prime dietary instigators of cancer, not diets based on minimally processed animal foods." Another, "...it is commonly believed that saturated fats and dietary cholesterol "clog arteries" and cause heart disease, such ideas have been show to be false by such scientists as LInus Pauling, Russell Smith, George Mann..." etc., etc.
Do you know anything about this guy? Does he have any credibility?
Incidentally, I've been enjoying your posts and, one other thing, what are the NAV's? Don
Hi Don,
Weston Price was a dentist who went around the world studying native diets and their effects on health. From it, he learned alot about the benefit of eating a whole food natural diet. His book, Nutrition and Physical Degenration, is a classic, for its time.
However, these days, Sally Fallon and Mary Enig have hijacked the name, and his work and have turned it into an org that promotes high saturated fat, high fat, high cholesterol diets. Butter is a health food , etc etc.
Dr Stephen Byrne, one of their medical leaders, died of a stroke at the age of 41.
I would recommend people to stay away from it. They misrepresent and twist data and information. There is no real evidence supporting their theories.
It is sad.
You can read another excellent critique of their organization here..
http://www.vegsource.com/articles2/fuhr ... _myths.htm
In Health
Jeff Novick, MS, RD
Early wrote:It's clear from reading the posts in reply to my original query and the links they included that the Weston Price people have an agenda, a bizarre agenda at that. But why? Does it have to do with their funding?
Best to all,
Early
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