228: Just eat real food!

Wise Traditions

Weston A. Price Foundation

Wellness, Health & Fitness, Alternative Health, Nutrition, Diet, Health

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🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

This is such an odd thing—that is, the fact that there is a need to point out the benefits of real food. But our world has changed so much since the days in which our ancestors lived! Supermarket shelves are stocked with items that resemble food but are pseudo foods with little to no nutrient value. As a matter of fact, these foods often are labeled as “heart healthy” or “low fat” and “natural” in an effort to persuade us otherwise. How can we distinguish what is good for us (i.e. actual food) and what products are dangerous facsimiles?

Today, Sally Fallon Morell, the head of the Weston A. Price Foundation, reviews principle #1 of the Wise Traditions lifestyle. It is the recommendation that we avoid refined and denatured foods. Sally defines the terms “refined” and “denatured” and helps us understand why foods that have been so changed endanger our health. She describes the effects of ingredients found in highly processed foods like MSG, high fructose corn syrup, and aspartame and she explains how they derail our health. She tells us about the rancid seed oils that are marketed to us and which oils are actually most natural and beneficial for our bodies. Overall, this conversation is a fantastic primer on why and how to switch to a more real food diet.

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0:00.0	And you know there was a lawsuit from someone who had eaten McDonald's all his life and was obese and he sued one of the companies and the food industry was so alarmed that they actually had laws passed in many states
0:16.8	that you can't sue a food producer for causing obesity and yet I think they realize that the MSG and other additives in the food
0:27.0	do, I'm not to say they do it every time, but they can cause obesity. And there's a point to what they're saying. I think the vegetable oils cause
0:37.2	obesity too. We had a wonderful letter a couple of issues ago in our journal a guy who was very overweight like 400
0:46.5	pounds he liked all his food fried everything was fried and vegetable oils and
0:51.2	he decided to raise a pig and he took the pig to the butcher and they said well do you want the lard?
0:57.0	And he said well I might as well take it. And so he started frying all his food in lard and he actually was eating more because it tasted better and he
1:05.5	lost about 50 pounds.
1:06.5	Are you kidding me?
1:07.5	Just eating the same thing.
1:09.5	We don't know the mechanism but I think that these vegetable oils and these industrial
1:14.9	fats especially when they're heated and rancid I think that they are having an
1:20.6	effect on our physiology in some way.
1:23.0	From the Westin A Price Foundation,
1:31.0	welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast for Wise Traditions in Food,
1:35.5	Farming and the Healing Arts.
1:37.4	We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal
1:42.0	health.
1:43.0	Hey, Hilda here, this is episode 228, and our guest today is Sally Fallon Morel. Sally is the head of the Westin A Price Foundation and the author of Nourishing Traditions among other books. Sally has pretty much changed the way thousands of us see and
2:05.2	understand true nourishment. She has helped us understand that we would do well to
2:10.1	nourish ourselves as our ancestors have worldwide for thousands of years.
2:15.6	Today we discuss Principal Number One of the Wise Traditions' Way of Life.
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