245: Raw vs. cooked
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
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🗓️ 8 June 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever eaten raw animal products? What about egg yolks, meat, dairy products (like milk or cheese), seafood, and fermented foods? Today, Sally Fallon Morell, president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, explains the benefits of eating raw animal products. She also goes over which foods are easier to digest when cooked.
Kale, for example, has anti-nutrients that are hard on the kidneys and the thyroid. Despite its popularity in smoothies and salads, kale is best eaten cooked. In contrast, oysters—a great source of B12, zinc, and other minerals—are best eaten raw.
This conversation also highlights traditional raw foods enjoyed all over the world.
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| 0:00.0 | Make sure eating the right things raw and the right things cooked. |
| 0:04.0 | So most plant foods and certainly all grains they need to be cooked and |
| 0:09.0 | and the grains need to be soaked first. But you do need some raw animal foods in your diet. This might |
| 0:15.1 | be a little inspiration to go out and find the raw milk in your neighborhood. From the Westin A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast for |
| 0:29.6 | Wise Traditions in Food,, and the healing arts. |
| 0:33.2 | We are your source for scientific knowledge |
| 0:35.3 | and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. Hey, Hilda here. Raw food is pretty popular, but what about raw animal products? |
| 0:50.0 | Mm, not so much. But listen to this, every traditional culture ate some form of their animal foods raw. |
| 0:57.5 | There are scientific benefits that back up what traditional cultures did instinctively. |
| 1:02.8 | This is episode 245 and our guest today is Sally Fallon Morel, the president of the |
| 1:07.4 | Westinay Price Foundation. |
| 1:09.4 | Today Sally discusses at length principle number four of the wise traditions diet the tradition of |
| 1:14.7 | eating raw animal foods. She touches on why some foods are easier to digest when cooked and |
| 1:20.6 | what the benefits are of eating raw. We're talking raw egg yolks, raw me, raw seafood, and |
| 1:27.1 | fermented foods, which she calls super raw food. She covers how cooked fermented and raw foods can complement each other in the diet. |
| 1:35.9 | This episode, by the way, is from our archives. |
| 1:38.2 | It originally aired in August 2016. |
| 1:41.5 | Before we dive into the topic, a quick word from the foundation. |
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