157: Crowd-sourced wisdom
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 22 October 2018
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Where do you turn when it comes to dietary advice? For too long, most of us have listened to "the anointed"--that is, experts who have promoted erroneous information to the expense of our health. Increasingly, people are turning their backs on what the supposed experts say and are instead turning to the wisdom of the crowds for their nutrition advice. Tom Naughton, filmmaker of the 2009 hit documentary, "Fat Head," explains why this "crowd-sourced" wisdom is a good thing. He himself once promoted federally-governed food guidelines, but he came to realize that these guidelines were greatly misaligned with the diets and ways of ancient populations. On today's podcast, he explains how ancient foods are not causing the diseases of modern civilization, what we can do to take our health into our own hands, and what he's working on to help children make healthy decisions early on for a lifetime of good health. And to anyone who thinks it's too late to start nourishing themselves with the nutritious whole foods of our ancestors, Tom has just one thing to say: "Bologna!"
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| 0:00.0 | more and more people, three quarters of the people now, |
| 0:03.4 | don't believe the USDA's dietary advice |
| 0:06.3 | because now they're aware, who's this working for? |
| 0:09.1 | How many people are going to the internet |
| 0:11.0 | and saying, boy, I went on the USDA's diet and man, did my health improve? |
| 0:15.6 | I lost weight. My symptoms of diabetes went away. Nobody's saying that. But there are all kinds of people saying, |
| 0:21.8 | I went back to a traditional diet. |
| 0:24.1 | I cut out the sugar and the flour and I got rid of basing my diet on grains and I started eating |
| 0:31.9 | meat again and eggs again and I've lost weight and I feel great. |
| 0:35.0 | That's what they're seeing out there and that bell can't be unrung. Welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast, sponsored by the Weston A Price Foundation for Wise Trad in food, farming, and the healing arts. |
| 0:55.4 | We're your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal |
| 1:00.4 | health. Hey everybody, I'm Hilda Labrada Gore. |
| 1:13.4 | This is episode 157 and my guest is Tom Nauten. |
| 1:17.7 | Tom is a former stand-up comedian who understands that we need to take our health more seriously. |
| 1:23.0 | He is the man behind the documentary, Fat Head, |
| 1:26.0 | and the children's book, |
| 1:27.0 | Fat Head, Stuff About Diet and Health I Wish I knew |
| 1:30.0 | when I was your age. |
| 1:31.0 | Tom got into this field as a writer and editor for Family Safety and |
| 1:34.6 | Health magazine and when his own health became compromised he started questioning |
| 1:39.4 | his own nutritional advice. Today Tom is an advocate for common sense wisdom when it comes to |
| 1:45.6 | our dietary choices. Not only is he big on common sense but he is an educator |
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