243: Maximize nutrient density
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 25 May 2020
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
Our ancestors, worldwide, hold the key to healthy eating. It's called "nutrient density." Basically, they knew how to get the most out of each bite because they learned it from their parents, who learned it from their parents, and so on. Traditional indigenous diets worldwide were much more nutrient-dense than ours today: they were high in a variety of nutrients and replete with the fat-soluble vitamins A, D, and K.
In this conversation, Sally Fallon Morell, the president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, goes into detail about why this is and how we can eat a more nutrient-dense diet today. She explains the essential role of vitamins A, D, and K in fertility, boosting mood, improving dental health and more. She describes what foods contain them in just the right proportions, including butter and raw cheeses. She reminds us of the benefits of organ meats. And she gives practical suggestions for simple ways to include foods in the diet that will give all of us the most bang for our buck, health-wise.
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| 0:00.0 | You know you look today at all these behavior problems we're seeing the almost |
| 0:04.9 | intractable depression and addictions and I just say try try our diet first |
| 0:11.8 | before you go on all these pills just try eating a stick of butter a day and see what that does for you. |
| 0:17.0 | Just try a few egg yolks a day and see how much better you feel. |
| 0:21.0 | I just feel it's like Dorothy. She was in Kansas all along, but we've got |
| 0:25.8 | the answers at our fingertips, but nobody realizes it. From the Westin A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions podcast for |
| 0:39.7 | Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the healing arts. We are your source for scientific |
| 0:44.8 | knowledge and traditional wisdom to health strong, of course. |
| 1:05.4 | So we commit to eat healthy. |
| 1:07.1 | But what does that mean? |
| 1:08.3 | There's so many different approaches to eating healthily. |
| 1:10.9 | Which one is really best? |
| 1:12.6 | This is episode 243, and our guest today is Sally Fallon Morel, |
| 1:16.8 | the president of the Westinay Price Foundation. |
| 1:19.5 | Sally is a prolific author, a popular speaker, and an outspoken advocate for real food and ancestral |
| 1:26.3 | wisdom. |
| 1:27.3 | Today she explains how our ancestors worldwide hold the key to healthy eating. |
| 1:32.2 | It's called nutrient density. |
| 1:34.0 | Basically they knew how to get the most out of each bite |
| 1:37.0 | because they learned it from their parents and their parents parents |
| 1:40.0 | and so on. |
| 1:42.0 | Traditional indigenous diets worldwide were much more nutrient |
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