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Right away I want to acknowledge that Dr. Weston Price is listed on the website Quackwatch as a Promoter of Questionable Methods, but if you look at that list you'll see he's in very good company, including the prominent and well-respected Andrew Weil, M.D.   It seems that to some people, anyone who thinks outside the box to promote anything but main-stream, pharmaceutical methods of so-called healing is a quack.   Well, I'm all for anyone who can lead us out of the disease-mongering excuse for health care that we have in this country, so I am strongly recommending you take a peek at this website.   The site is not new and I am remiss for taking so long to feature it, but better late than never.

Dr. Price was a dentist and nutritionist who lived from 1870 to 1948.   In 1939, he published Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, a book that details a series of ethnographic nutritional studies performed across diverse cultures.   As you might expect, some of his work is now considered flawed or outdated.   But realizing that it held the wisdom of traditional cultures and perhaps a key to good health, Sally Fallon and nutritionist Mary G. Enig created the Weston Price foundation in 1999.   The Foundation is a non-profit, dedicated to education, research and activism by supporting a number of movements including accurate nutrition instruction, organic and biodynamic farming, pasture-feeding of livestock, community-supported farms, honest and informative labeling, prepared parenting and nurturing therapies.   They seek further to establish a laboratory to test nutrient content of foods and to determine the effects of traditional preparation methods on nutrient content and availability in whole foods.

The work of this noble foundation is finally starting to gain the attention it deserves from a public that is tired of marketers advising us on nutrition.   Recently the Washington Post highlighted them with an article that discusses their new popularity: " New members include the expected 'back to the land' types, for whom the foundation's message provides yet another reason to support small organic farms, and those who oppose the government's attempt to limit the availability of foods such as raw milk."   The article quotes Liz Reitzig as saying "I'm nine months pregnant, and I can go anywhere and buy a pack of cigarettes and a case of beer.   But I can't get raw milk, this food that has nourished us for thousands of years."   What's wrong with this country?   Check out the Weston Price Foundation and start being part of the solution.