WISE TRADITIONS 2016
IN ALABAMA
What a great place for a conference!
We are now seeing a major growth
of sustainable farming in such states as
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida
and Louisiana, especially with grassfed
and pasture-based livestock. This
is because weather and climate conditions
dictate the best-use practices of
all farm ground. It’s as though we just
remembered that the South has plentiful
and mostly gentle rainfall, a ten-to-
twelve month-long
growing season and
lots of affordable land.
New farms and ranches
are popping up all over
the South, and they
plan to grow delicious,
nutrient-dense food.
In addition, the
South is beginning to
experience exciting
times both for lovers of
great food and for the
farmers and ranchers
who know how to raise
it! While, for a long
time, Americans have
been willing to import
much of our food from
parched areas where we could extract
underground water and haul in artificial
fertilizers, we realize that many of
these extreme production measures are unsustainable. In addition, the South
has been growing many non-food crops
such as tobacco or cotton so most folks
there have been getting by in man-made
food deserts. In spite of a decades-long
exodus of population gravitating southward,
there wasn’t much local food one would want to eat.
I’m excited to see that WAPF
has become aware of this tremendous
geographic shift in high-quality food
production! In addition to witnessing
the changes first-hand, we will be able
to share our knowledge and our resources
with this beautiful part of the
U.S.! Well, I do declare. . . the South
shall raise (good food) again!
Will Winter, DVM
Minneapolis, Minnesota
ASPARTAME AND INFERTILITY
Regarding your upcoming conference,
I hope whoever is speaking about infertility understands the aspartame
connection (mpwhi.com). It’s in the
book Aspartame Disease: An Ignored
Epidemic, the thousand-page medical
text by H. J. Roberts, MD.
Aspartame is an endocrine-disrupting
drug that stimulates prolactin,
changes the menses and causes infertility. I’ve been founding director of
Mission Possible World Health International
for almost twenty-five years.
Every person I got off aspartame who
was infertile got pregnant without exception.
In the original studies, aspartame
caused neural tube defects, spina bifida,
cleft palate and other abnormalities.
There is no pregnancy warning on
products containing aspartame. Another
point: before aspartame got on
the market no one had heard the term
ADD, ADHD.
Betty Martini, D.Hum,
Mission Possible
World Health Intl
NAXOS, GREECE
In May 2015, my wife
and I went to Greece.
Most of our time was
spent on Naxos, a
mountainous island
with traditional values.
Naxos is the largest of
the Cyclades and has
an artistic history going
back five thousand
years. It also supports
itself by agriculture.
Naxos began to dazzle us from
the start. We stayed a few nights at the
Adonis Hotel in Apollonas on the northeastern
side of the island. Stamatis, the
hotel owner, immediately introduced
us to his organic wines and liquors secured from his orchard. Stamatis
also had three separate vegetable gardens
and we enjoyed some fantastic
home-cooked farm-to-table meals. He
and almost everyone else in Apollonas
have large organic terraced gardens
planted with olives, grapes, fruit trees
and vegetables. These terraces have
been used for centuries. Most, if not
all, crops were grown from heirloom
seeds shared among local gardeners
and villages. There was no evidence of
chemical usage, and goat manure was
the principal fertilizer.
All the mountainous villages had
terraced gardens winding through
them. The terraces throughout the
island are watered from numerous
mountain springs. This reminded me
of the Inca terraces in Peru, except
Naxos has a much more lush natural
landscape. Both places are famous for
potatoes. Who would have thought a
Greek island would be famous for its
potatoes.
Passing along the terraces and
narrow serpentine roads are about fifty
thousand well-managed goats. Some
cows are kept in the more western,
lower, hilly regions of the island. Homemade
Naxian cheeses and yogurts are
everywhere and taste so special.
Besides great food from the land,
the seafood is equally wonderful and
always fresh. All the restaurants where
we ate served fresh local food and
beverages. Just being on Naxos is an
experience in agro-tourism.
Even though I have been growing
organic vegetables for forty-five
years and securing local pasture-fed
livestock, eggs and raw milk, there
was a definite letdown coming back
to the U.S. It was likely due to not being
surrounded by a larger traditional
community so apparent and complete
on Naxos.
The island has other attractions.
There are three sixth century B.C. kouros,
or partially carved marble statues
lying flat in the quarry sites. There is a
museum in the port, Naxos town, full of
sculptures dating from 3,000 B.C. that
apparently inspired Modigliani’s art.
We highly recommend Naxos as a destination
for those who value friendly,
generous people, great food and Wise
Traditions!
Warren Pierce
Eggleston, Virginia
ANTI-VAX CAMPAIGN
I really enjoyed receiving my
quarterly magazine from you and support
most things that WAPF says and
stands for. However, my reason for not
resubscribing is because of your antivax
campaign.
When my son was six weeks
old, whooping cough infected a lot of
students at our local primary school
because an unvaccinated child attended
the school. My older two children still
contracted whooping cough but having
been vaccinated, they only received a
mild dose of the disease. The six-weekold
child was at the time too young for
vaccination and caught full-on whooping
cough. Ten days in the hospital
with oxygen for the attacks twenty-four
hours per day was a frightening experience.
Our son would have an attack
every hour or so. A very strong cough
with a terrified look on his face. Early
in the attack, he could regain his breath
a couple of times with a horrible sounding
gasp for air, but the coughing would
continue until his skin turned red and
then purple. Then he would pass out and
immediately turn a ghostly white. My
wife and I would look on and pray that
he would start breathing again. This
went on for ten days!
Please spend a little time to find
out what whooping cough really is.
You will see why I cannot support your
cause.
Name withheld
Reply from Leslie Monookian: We are
sorry to hear that your son contracted
whooping cough as an infant. It is
always distressing when our children
are ill. Unfortunately, the whooping
cough vaccine is a dismal failure. In
fact, most recipients of the vaccine have
no immunity two to five years after the
shot; worse still, millions of vaccine
recipients spread the disease—including
vaccinated children (www.thevaccinereaction.
org/2016/02/recentlyvaccinated-
kids-are-spreading-pertussis-
everywhere/)—without having
any symptoms of their own or knowing
they were spreading the disease; furthermore,
the vaccine has caused the
pertussis microbe to mutate into more
virulent strains (www.nvic.org/NVICVaccine-
News/March-2016/pertussismicrobe-
outsmarts-the-vaccines.aspx),
rendering the disease more dangerous
than it was before the vaccine—as in
the case of your son. While cases of
whooping cough and other diseases are
often blamed on the unvaccinated, the
truth is that the disease is much more
likely spread by vaccinated individuals
who don’t know they are carrying
and transmitting the disease. It is also
noteworthy that Australia stopped
the practice of “cocooning” (www.news.com.au/breaking-news/statesending-
free-parent-whooping-vaccine/
story-e6frfku0-1226350174856) or vaccinating
those around a newborn as
the evidence showed it did not work.
As with all issues the Weston A. Price
Foundation addresses, we try to tell
you the truth according to the science,
not what a health official or other party
with an ideological, political or financial
interest might want you to know,
and this holds true for vaccines. We
encourage you to watch The Greater
Good (greatergoodmovie.org), check
out all the research on their website in
their Catalogue of Science; also check
out the vaccination page for WAPF
(westonaprice.org/vaccinations/). All
these sources are fully referenced with
scientific literature you will not hear
about from health authorities or your
local doctor. But that does not make
them any less true. Please also check
out the new movie Vaxxed: From Cover
Up to Catastrophe (vaxxedthemovie.
com), which documents the fraud and
cover up at the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention regarding
the vaccine-autism link. Vaxxed will
be shown at the WAPF Conference in
Montgomery, Alabama, November 12,
2016.
QUESTIONABLE
VACCINE SAFETY
As a practitioner of Western medicine
I read medical journals frequently.
One recent article caught my attention.
It described a case study regarding an
unfortunate young woman who, despite
a previous record of excellent health,
suffered unexplained weakness, neurological
abnormalities, myalgias and
paralysis. Miraculously, she recovered
most of her capabilities after many
months even years of rehabilitation,
although no cause was ever discovered.
In her history, the article mentioned
that she received a vaccine
(meningococcal) less than two weeks
before her initial symptoms began. I
found it odd that a potential correlation
between the two was never considered.
Surely the timing alone, (severe neurological
deficit following a vaccine)
should raise some suspicion. At the very
least, this occurrence should have been
reported to the federal vaccine adverse
event reporting system. I wrote a letter
stating such to the editor of the medical
journal. Did I receive a response? You
can probably guess the answer.
Rebecca Lord
Richmond, Virginia
NO SCIENTIFIC BASIS?
According to a Time Magazine
article (October 12, 2015), Frank DeStefano,
director of immunization safety
at the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, claims that the immune
system can handle up to one hundred
thousand vaccines at a time and that
there is no scientific basis for a delayed
schedule. What is the “scientific basis”
for the one-hundred-thousand claim?
Where is the “evidence-based medicine”?
Where are the gold standard
placebo controlled, double blind studies
proving that number?
That number isn’t even “anecdotal.”
DeStefano just pulled it out of thin
air. Who is out to lunch? DeStefano or
us? How does this claim get challenged?
Robert Beem
Center Harbor, New Hampshire
THIS AIN’T NORMAL FOLKS
In the industry, Gardasil, Merck’s
HPV vaccine, is referred to as the
“have-to-pay-for-Vioxx” vaccine. The
company paid out seven billion dollars
in liabilities for Vioxx, which killed
somewhere between one hundred thousand
and five hundred thousand people.
They had to pull it off the market.
The appeal of the HPV vaccine is
that it is lucrative as well as liabilityfree.
With more than seventy-five million
U.S. people between nine and
twenty-six, this makes it a thirty-two
billion dollar market in the U.S. alone,
with a recurring annual revenue stream
of about three billion dollars. To put this
in perspective, Lipitor, Pfizer’s mega
blockbuster statin was pulling in five
billion dollars per year.
No liability for the manufacturers,
means it is pure profit. Vaccines in general,
and HPV vaccines in particular,
are a huge untapped market for drug
companies, especially as the market
for other drugs is very saturated and
intensely competitive.
Quality control can be disposed of
as there is no liability. Vaccine manufacturers
do not have to do expensive,
long term, double-blind placebo studies,
and they do not have to take liability
reserves (to reiterate, drug companies
cannot be sued for vaccines). They
have huge marketing funds that drive
intense campaigns. These firms will
stop at nothing to meet their numbers,
including gagging scientists, arresting
researchers, getting publications
yanked off PubMed, paying off the
CDC, blocking contrary journal articles
from publication, smearing reputations
of doctors, and far worse things.
Parents need to understand the nature of this vaccine, the side effects and
what it purports to prevent versus what
it actually does; they need to review
the work of scientists who have been
gagged, and make decisions regarding
this dangerous vaccine after they are
properly informed. Also please note
that under California law, school nurses
are permitted to vaccinate your child
with HPV without your knowledge,
consent or permission.
Educate yourself, educate your
child and protect your family! In clinical
trials for these and other vaccines—
get this—the placebo is an aluminum
hydroxide solution—a deadly adjuvant!
If you compare a poison against a poison,
the death rate will of course be
equal, thus allowing them to dismiss
the side effects as normal and natural.
This is shady science to put it mildly.
Using the CDC’s own statistics on allcause
mortality in five to fourteen year
olds, the difference is eightfold between
vaccine deaths versus all-cause deaths.
This ain’t normal folks!
Sushama Gokhale
Larkspur, California
THE STRAWMAN DEBATE
I am writing in response to the “Parens
Patriae Response” letter, Fall 2015,
and the subsequent letter, “Strawman,”
in Winter 2015. As a mother who sees
the benefits of avoiding vaccines both
for myself and my children, I am very
interested in coming to a more definite
conclusion as to the legal authority Parens
Patriae has over oneself and one’s
children.
Al Whitney stated that a parent’s
objection to vaccination must be in
writing, but to whom should this writing
be given?
In response to Edward Anderson,
who said the answer was not to sign off
on the child’s birth certificate in order
for that individual not to be considered
a corporation, would the solution to be
a free individual legally able to make
one’s own medical decisions by having
no birth certificate, or simply signing a
waiver with the school department? I
would appreciate more insight into this
all-important issue.
By the way, thank you for your
top-notch work and magazine! Nothing
else has been more helpful on so many
issues.
Krista Hess-Mills
Oldtown, Idaho
CENTENARIANS IN COSTA RICA
In the last issue a writer commented
that a centenarian of Costa Rica
from the isolated peninsula of Nicoya
ate about nine spoons of sugar per
day. I have interviewed some of these
centenarians and all those that I have
interviewed said that in their childhood,
youth and even recently the only sugar
they ate was tapa dulce (evaporated
sugar cane); they also said they could
only afford to eat it once every two
months when they would mix it with
coconut or pumpkin to make one small
dessert. The rest of the time they went
completely sugarless, tapa dulce or not
(except some fresh fruit).
If one looks at a map one can see
that the peninsula of Nicoya is very far
from San Jose, the capital of Costa Rica.
About fifty or sixty years ago, a road
was built to the area and now there is a
ferry and a bridge; in fact the peninsula
of Nicoya is now a very big tourist area.
Some years ago when a friend from
the U.S. told me that the peninsula of
Nicoya was part of a blue zone group
of people, I went to check that website.
According to the website at that time,
a centenarian from the peninsula of
Nicoya ate toasted (oil/fat free) tortillas,
squash and beans. After reading that,
I shall never trust the Internet because
this is so incomplete and so misleading
that whenever I make a presentation
here to Costa Ricans, they just die
laughing because as they all know, the
main food of the old people of Nicoya is
pork, lard and chicken skin. The other
food items are just small extras.
Costa Ricans are mostly descendants
of Spanish and Amerindian
peoples. There are still some reserves
of 100 percent indigenous people, and
they are the only group here to have
nice dental arches. Everybody else has
medium or even severely collapsed
arches, which is corrected (sort of) by
years of wearing braces—for the less
fortunate, the dental care is paid by
universal healthcare.
My family and I live seven kilometers
from the main town of our area,
Turrialba, which was never as isolated
as Nicoya. Many years ago I used to
buy lard in town and it happened that
on some days I could find not one drop
of it. When I finally inquired of one
of the butchers which day of the week
the stores were likely to have it, he informed
me that the day the indigenous
people came to town—they came by
bus from the limit of the indigenous
reserve once or twice a week—they
bought every single part of the pig,
even the ears, and every drop of the
fat the store collected in order to make
chicharon (fried pieces of pork) to sell.
By the way, Costa Rica produced so
much lard one hundred years ago that the country exported it.
I finally went to a faraway village
in Nicoya in 2012 and obtained the
following information from three very
old people who told me that the whole
village virtually ate the same way. They
had virtually no money, were mostly
self-sufficient, especially in food and
engaged mostly in barter. Everybody
had a big piece of land (milpa) where
they grew corn and tubers and where
their pigs spent the day eating. They
also had at least one milking cow and
many chickens. (Costa Rica’s entire
population at that time was less than
a million people for a vast amount of
land.) Their houses were made of natural
material and covered by a thatched
roof.
The diet of a family of seven
(mother, father and five children) included
milk fresh and still warm from
the cow and whatever eggs the chickens
had managed to lay. They would kill
one pig per month on average and that
pig gave five gallons of lard to cook for
seven people for the whole month.
I must add that one of them (age
one hundred three) told me that every
two years for the last ten an institute
from San Jose (Costa Rica’s capital)
came to interview him about his longevity,
but they never asked him once
what kind of oil he used to cook his
food. This particular old man said to
one of the interviewers that his favorite
meat was pork to which this member of
the institute replied that pork was the
worst meat—this in a country where
people today, who have drastically
changed their food habits, die like flies
from cancer or heart diseases before
age sixty-five. There was one old man I
could not interview because at age one
hundred four, he was in his corn field
working the land under a scorching sun
and unbearable heat (not the only one
of his age doing this though).
They also went to the mountain to
hunt all sorts of game but mainly delicious
wild pig.
They ate lots of fish and shrimp
from the seas and the river. One man
told me that everybody in the village
was as thin as a stick (not the situation
now) and unlike his children and worse
his grandchildren, people’s flesh was
very hard to the touch, and now his
grandchildren’s flesh is very soft. They
made a lot of bone soup (chicken, pork,
beef and fish—no parts wasted). One of
the old men told me that bone soup was
the cure for a soft body (he had begged
his daughter to give bone soup to his
sickly grandson to no avail).
Regarding sugar consumption, he
said that at first sugar cost money so
they did not have it in the village. Second,
when they could get their hands on
a little of it, it was always tapa dulce.
Third, they only had it about every two
months, sometimes less frequently.
They also sometimes used coconut oil
for cooking. They ate some fresh fruits
from trees, but no juice.
However, their children and grandchildren
eat a lot of processed food,
processed vegetable oil, artificial everything
sodas and unlimited white
sugar and white flour. They also get
vaccinated routinely. They do still eat
pork and even lard a few times a year,
but that does not seem enough to stop
the ravages of sugar. The water they
drink is from the same location as before
but now treated with chlorine.
I have wished to go back and spend
more time and conduct more interviews
in another village full of centenarians
and a bit further from the sea at some
point before they completely disappear
but have not found the time so far (it is
also extremely hot there).
Wishing a ton of blessings for the
Weston A. Price Foundation.
Gina Baker, Chapter Leader
Turrialba, Costa Rica
TRADITIONAL FOOD
IN UZBEKISTAN
Recently I was on an “expedition”
to Uzbekistan and enjoyed the very basic
food stuffs, including the fermented
milk items. An article in the Uzbekistan
Airway Magazine explained the four
basic milk ferments we received at
almost every meal. The round, small
cheeses were “snacks” and quite a good
food with the beer! I also loved the
beautiful butter boxes for yak butter!
Keep up the sensational work you
are doing!
Jorie Johnson
Kyoto, Japan
CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
I’m a WAPF member who is enthusiastic
about your nutritional principles,
and am grateful for your work in fighting
the bureaucracy that is working to
suppress small, sustainable farmers
and take away our basic freedoms of
what we put into our bodies. I have
something that I’d like to share.
Growing numbers of Americans
are fed up with industrial food and
medicine and are increasingly looking
for healthier alternatives, as bureaucrats
that are bought and paid for keep introducing
legislation that seeks to force us
into their system. I think it was from
reading Joel Salatin that I first got the idea, what if freedom to make informed
food choices were protected in the
Constitution the same way freedom of
speech, the press, religion and assembly
are? What if freedom to make medical
choices for oneself and one’s family
were protected in the same way?
This may seem like a pipe dream,
but it may not be in ten or fifteen years if
people’s awareness of these issues keeps
on rising. Constitutional amendments
protecting our freedom to make food
and medical choices could eventually
be a reality, and would make it a heck
of a lot harder for corporations and
politicians to subject us to death by a
thousand cuts. I don’t know legalese
so have no clue how this would need
to be worded, but I thought I’d pass on
the idea to organizations such as WAPF
that are on our side and see whether it
can get into the collective consciousness
of the food movement and medical
freedom movement. Changes are happening,
and what seems ‘pie in the sky’
now may become reality later.
Richard Goerwitz
Tecumseh, Missouri
GLYPHOSATE EVERYWHERE
What are we going to do about
glyphosate? It is not only tainting
California wines, but has been found
in German beer, in blood and breast
milk—and in the urine of 93 percent of
those tested recently at the University
of California, San Francisco. This is a
health emergency, an environmental
emergency—local, state, national and
international, caused by Monsanto’s
Roundup weed killer.
It seems we are turning the whole
world into a version of Flint, Michigan,
by allowing chemical companies and
large corporate interests to poison us,
for profit, power and payola. A provision
in the Trans-Pacific Partnership
(TPP) could soon make it impossible
for countries to do things like ban
Roundup, without being sued for obstruction
of trade. This is subordinating
the sovereign rights of nations to
corporations. When will it stop?
As a resident of Wine Country,
California, I am deeply concerned
about the spraying and the drift, the
seeping into the precious watershed,
salmon and us, the contamination of organic
farms where we have been turning
for non-toxic food—we might even
be breathing glyphosate and drinking it
in our water here and in other agricultural
areas. I asked the local authorities
a year ago whether our water might be
tested but received no reply. It feels
like we are being given the Flint treatment—
being ignored. Glyphosate is
not only called a “probable carcinogen”
by WHO, but has been found to disrupt
gut flora—which as we know can lead
to many other health problems.
We hear that Roundup can stay in
the soil for twenty years. If we banned
it today, we’d still have years of negative
effects, though they would presumably
decrease. . . so what are we waiting for?
What about the health of our children
and grandchildren? If glyphosate was
just found in two organic wines tested
(in much smaller amounts than the
commercial wines, though) it may
also be invading organic vegetables,
fruits and medicinal herbs, along with
the other chemical adjuvants that accompany
it. I’m glad to hear that food
is now being tested, and eagerly await
results.
There are many petitions, but
clearly they haven’t done enough.
This one, to Gina McCarthy and
other world leaders, had well over
one million signatures a few weeks
back. That’s impressive, and yet what
is being done? https://secure.avaaz.
org/en/monsanto_dont_silence_science_
loc_us/?baJlUeb&v=57276.
Please fight to ban these terrible
chemicals. We are tired of marching,
calling and signing petitions yet having
nothing happen.
Carey Wheaton
Sonoma County, California
LOVE THOSE PODCASTS!
I just wanted to take a moment
to write and tell you how much I appreciate
and have been enjoying the
podcasts. I have listened to them all
as they have been released (I usually
listen while cooking!) and just finished
part one of the vaccine discussion. This
information absolutely needs to get out
there so that more people are aware.
Thank you so much for the great work!
Marisa Tolsma
Loveland, Colorado
TRIED THEM ALL
Throughout college and over the
past year since I graduated, I’ve given
just about every diet a fair trial—veganism,
vegetarianism, ketosis, low-carb,
fasting, gluten-free, organic, raw,
GAPS, juice cleanses—but now that
I’ve found the wise traditional diet of
WAPF, I feel like my search has ended.
Never before have I found so much wisdom
about nutrition in one place. And
thank you so much for sponsoring the
Wise Traditions podcast! The knowledge
I’ve gained from the podcasts is
astonishing.
I’ve been exposed to Dr. Price’s
work through many different channels,
but so far this podcast is my favorite.
It’s so enjoyable to listen as I commute,
and I come away with profound wisdom
about not only nutrition, but life as well.
And it has exposed me to so many new
healing modalities! First it was beet
kvass, then raw milk, then liver pȃté—I
can’t wait to see what’s next!
Months ago I was reading a book
called Cure Tooth Decay, and something
about the counsel therein really
resonated with me, so thought I would
research more into Weston A. Price.
After a quick Google search, I found
the WAPF website, poked around,
downloaded some PDFs, found my local
chapter and realized it was led by a
good family friend I grew up with! I got
in touch with Hilda Gore, who is also
the host of the Wise Traditions podcast,
and she invited me to a chapter meeting.
There I met Jesse Straight, a farmer
trained by Joel Salatin, who came to
talk to us about life for his family and
animals on his farm. I was impressed
by his philosophy (“home should be
the source of production, rather than
consumption”), and eventually bought
delicious eggs from him, and have been
invited to spend some time working at
his farm to learn more about it.
Since last November, I’ve met
many interesting people through this
community, shared many delicious
meals, gained improved health and
started my own garden!
I think that anyone who eats food
can stand to gain from listening to the
Wise Traditions podcast. Each of the
guests on the show speaks from a place
of such authority, and it’s a relief to
hear their counsel, because you know it
comes from a place of hard-won truth.
Timothy Gregg
Bethesda, Maryland
GUN VIOLENCE
I recently read an article about
gun violence in The Washington Post.
What people don’t realize is that sixty
or seventy years ago some school students
took guns to school, practiced at
recess and had shooting clubs. In my
childhood many kids had guns, but we
had no violence. About the only thing
I remember kids getting in trouble for
was swearing. So a look at history and
science is needed.
Those puzzled about gun violence
should begin by reading the research of
Drs. Weston A. Price and Francis Pottenger.
The implication of their research
for Western civilization—obsessed as
it is with refined, highly sweetened
convenience foods and lowfat items—is
profound. If we want to stop violence
and poor health in our country, we need
to return to the diet of our ancestors.
In addition to a poor diet, we need
to look into the effects of drugs for depression
and attention deficit disorder.
As investigative reporter Jon Rappaport
has written, every school shooter was
taking prescribed psychiatric drugs.
These are known to have side effects
of violence and suicide. This is well
documented in the book Toxic Psychiatry
by Dr. Peter Breggin. He asserts
that psychiatric drugs are spreading an
epidemic of long-term brain damage
and mental illness.
Vaccinations contain metals and
chemicals that disrupt important functions
in the body and brain. In 1990
Harris L. Coulter wrote Vaccination,
Social Violence and Criminality, in
which he predicted that if we did not
quit over-vaccinating we would have
a dramatic increase in violence in our
country. This book was reviewed in
Wise Traditions, Spring 2013.
Janice Curtin
Alexandria, Virginia
AYURVEDIC DIET
I have been looking into Ayurvedic
medicine and diet, and can report that
it is very much in line with WAPF
principles, and not vegetarian.
In Ayurvedic medicine, there is a
procedure known as abhyanga (which
I can personally attest to the benefits
of) which is the “oiling of the body”
(massage oil into the body). Various oils
are used to different effects, depending
upon one’s constitution and health condition.
Interestingly, while traditional
Ayurveda recommends cured sesame
oil or coconut oil for this oiling, it also
recommends ghee, and for people in
very poor health who may be suffering
from “wasting” or “dryness,” they
recommend using lard or marrow fat!
Also, they recommend against using all
other vegetable oils (except coconut and
sesame). It is claimed that when animal
fat is mixed with particular herbs, the
animal fats act as much better carriers
than the vegetable oils, and they claim
that animal fat is more nourishing to
the skin.
Although Ayurveda does have
a “vegetarian” lifestyle plan (which
probably evolved to cater to people’s
spiritual aspirations, rather than as a
regime for good health), it most certainly
is not vegan and advises copious
amounts of ghee, milk, butter, curd,
yogurt and buttermilk, which they use to make a spicy soup called khadi that
is eaten on its own or with rice. (By
the way, I’ve also seen in Ayurvedic
literature that adding ghee to warmed
milk makes it more digestible, which
seems in-line with WAPF principles!)
I recently noticed a fairly decent
Wikipedia entry for the Sanskrit text
Charaka Samhita, which suggests a
regimen of Mamsa Rasa (meat soup)
during pregnancy from the sixth
month onwards. Mamsa Rasa is often
recommended for breaking a fast as
an adjunct to the healing process.
Freshly cut meat is also recommended
for the treatment of poison, wherein
the cut meat is pressed against the affected
part or spot of insect or reptile
bite to absorb away the poison. Over
one hundred fifty medical substances
of animal origin are described in
Charaka Samhita, ranging from the
meat of wild animals such as fox
and crocodile, to that of freshly cut
fish, fish oil, eggs of birds and bee’s
wax. Additionally, the text describes
hundreds of formulations it asserts to
be of medicinal value from a mixture
of animal products with herb or plant
products, as well as with inert minerals
such as various salts, soots and
alkalis. The dispelling of misinformation
is a never-ending task it seems.
Will Quesnel
Salisbury, United Kingdom
FIRST-HAND EXPERIENCE
An abundance of glorious book
reviews reside in the Spring 2016
edition of our (sooooo valuable)
Wise Traditions. From the useful,
“Don’t Bother” reviews, to steer us
clear of wasting precious time, to the
proclaiming of great books worthy of
our Freedom Libraries, most reviews
are beautifully and skillfully written,
highly insightful, pertinent to our
lives, and stuffed (skillfully) with
good advice. Collecting the knowledge
needed to weather hard times in
a “Freedom Library” is a good piece
of wisdom, even if we aren’t planning
to read these gems immediately.
Particularly high on my radar is
the subject covered in the book on
rampant doctor madness, Psychiatry
Under the Influence. I know first-hand
of the devious ways psychiatrists can
make life miserable and glean great
profits all the while.
After my husband’s successful
hip replacement, all appeared to be
going well until the third day of recovery
when he went into withdrawal
symptoms from the psychiatric drug
Xanax (Alprazolam), originally
promoted to him as non-addictive
about thirty years ago. He becomes
intensely psychotic (not aware of the
present), irrational, vicious, manipulative
and paranoid with hallucinations,
agitation and other endearing
qualities.
His prescription was PRN—Per
Required Need. Being mostly asleep
and out of it after the surgery, he
didn’t have the awareness needed to
ask the nurses for his regular doses.
Right on time, on the third day, the
withdrawal symptoms kicked in, and
he was seeing helicopters and SWAT
teams on rooftops and warning me of
people outside our home and in the
corridors, murders being investigated
and then calling 911, at 6:30 a.m., to
get me out of his room since I’d flipped, in
his mind, to being one of the bad guys.
He was taken from the rehab facility to an emergency room. Then, without consulting me, he went to a psych “behavioral” hospital. The receptionists at that facility kept saying they “could neither confirm or deny” that he was a patient, despite his daughter, in another state, telling me she’d spoken with him and their therapist.
Frantically, I searched through international warnings/side effects of his medications, found in the search engine at CCHRint.org. I typed up what I found, which included the exact symptoms he was displaying. At the top, I noted the source. They wouldn’t take the envelope with this information so I tossed it through their security window and left.
The next day, I got a call asking about how soon I could come to take him home as he was now stable and ready. He had symmetrical bruises on the inside of both forearms (some restraints are illegal, I believe), symmetrical sores on the tops of his feet (exit wounds from electric shocks?), and was fearful, uncertain, weak and frightened—not at all “stable.” He spoke of being left for hours in a wheelchair, despite his recent surgery; lights on all day and night. One imagines that professionals in a field would improve, rather than worsen, conditions. He now has Tardive Dyskenesia (similar to Parkinson’s), as mentioned in the book review, due to the drug cocktail given throughout his journey. And, years later, he still has the nightmares along with memories of the good people he met on the inside—the other patients.
J Mc
Colorado Springs, Colorado
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