236: Were our ancestors vegetarian?
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2020
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Veganism and vegetarianism have become the hip and "clean" way to eat, for many—particularly for young people. But what is this diet doing to our health? Throughout history, has any traditional culture deliberately chosen to forego meat in favor of a 100% plant-based diet?
In this week's episode, Sally Fallon Morell, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation and author of "Nourishing Traditions," discusses the importance animal products have held in diets around the globe. Sally touches on the work of Dr. Price (who found no completely plant-based diet among indigenous people) and the ethics of eating animal foods. She covers what happens to our bodies when we don't include animal products (issues with tooth decay, weight gain or loss, and more) and stresses the dangers of vitamin B12 deficiencies. Finally, she reviews how to source and prepare animal foods to get the most out of them. This episode is a review of principle #2 of the Wise Traditions lifestyle: that all traditional cultures included animal products in their diet.
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| 0:00.0 | All traditional diets contained some animal foods. |
| 0:05.0 | Now, this was Dr. Price's greatest disappointment. |
| 0:09.0 | As he traveled over the world, he was hoping to find healthy traditional cultures that only had |
| 0:15.4 | plant foods in their diet and he did not find this. From the Westin A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions podcast for |
| 0:30.0 | wise traditions in food, farming, and the healing arts. |
| 0:33.6 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. Hey, Hilda here. This is episode 236 and our guest today is Sally Falim-Mereau. |
| 0:52.0 | Sally is the president of the Westinay Price Foundation |
| 0:55.3 | and she is a popular speaker and prolific author. |
| 0:58.3 | She's written Nourishing Traditions, Nourishing Broth, |
| 1:01.6 | Nourishing fats, |
| 1:03.0 | nourishing diets, |
| 1:04.0 | needless to say, |
| 1:05.0 | she understands how to nourish well. |
| 1:08.0 | Today, Sally discusses the importance of animal products in our diet. |
| 1:11.0 | In this conversation, Sally explains why animal products |
| 1:14.6 | are so critical for our health |
| 1:16.7 | and how indigenous people groups worldwide |
| 1:19.1 | would go to great lengths to obtain it, |
| 1:21.5 | especially to provide for those in the child-bearing years. |
| 1:25.0 | She covers what happens to our bodies when we don't get enough animal products, |
| 1:29.0 | including issues with tooth decay, weight gain, or loss, and more, |
| 1:33.8 | and she talks about the dangers of Vitamin B12 deficiencies, |
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