The WestonAPriceFoundation.org food principles listed below fit any culture at any time, from Kenya to the Amazon to the Alps, utilizing God's magnificent cornicopia of beneficial natural resources.
The end-result of these food principles can be tested using simple and economic live blood analysis. [PDF Version]
Processed and preservative filled modern food causes inflammation (acid-toxin build up). Symptoms from this inflammation can occur anywhere in the body, typically in the genetically weakest organs or tissue structures.
...Healthy food, as consumed in the WAPF diet, is all-natural, easy to digest and contains many
protective elements, and does not tell our bodies to turn on the inflammatory cascade, as there is nothing
offensive to fight....
Beverly Rubik, Live Blood Analysis, WAPF
The overall integrative health strategy? 1.) reduce inflammation 2.) rebuild healthy body tissue and 3.) clear toxins. You need healthy body tissue to be able to clear toxins.
Worst acid-forming foods to avoid: polyunsaturated vegetable oils, artificial sweeteners and preservatives, food colorings, overly processed grains (white flour, white bread, white rice, breakfast cereal, crackers, etc.), processed white sugar, high fructose corn syrup, pasteurized - homogenized milk. [Source: Bruce Fife, ND, Coconut Cure, Preventing and Treating Common Health Problems with Coconut]
* Note that most commercially packaged grains and flours and bakery products are fortified
with iron. Iron causes pre-mature aging and disease.
No processed liquid seed oils (Corn, Canola, Soybean, etc.) or partially hydrogenated oils (margarine), except for unrefined olive oil.Coconut oil and coconut milk are a great alternative option! Especially for those who are dairy intolerant. Also olive oil, red palm oil and refined palm oil.
No refined sugars, corn syrup or high fructose corn syrup.[natural sugars are fine: figs, dates, raisins, raw-no heat treated honey, rapadura (unrefined sugar cane), date sugar, coconut sugar, pure maple syrup, un-sulphured molasses, stevia...]
Very little or no pasteurized milk.[Substitute medicinal whole raw milk and/or fermented milk products such as yogurt, kefir, etc.]
Raw milk consumed by 5 out of 8 subjects; one was dairy intolerant.Note: coconut milk is great alternative for those with dairy intolerance.
Five to 14 eggs or egg yolks/wk consumed by all, except for 1 egg-allergic subject.
Three to 15 tablespoons of saturated fats [including: coconut oil, red palm oil, butter...] daily; mean of 7.375 tablespoons/day.
Consumption of conventional restaurant food 5 percent or less.
Cod liver oil supplementation in 6 out of 8 subjects.
Seven of 8 subjects consumed fermented foods regularly.
All subjects prepared grains and nuts (and beans) by soaking and sourdough most of the time.Important: Soaking / fermenting grains / nuts / beans overnight reduces phytic acid and increases digestability.
Source: WAPF Foundation: Live Blood Analysis of Adults Comparing the Weston A. Price Foundation Diet and the Conventional Modern Diet, Beverly Rubik, [PDF Version]
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