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Summary: Nourishing Traditions
Review: This book was recommended to me by my Anthroposophic Dr. It has completely changed my life, health and the health of my family. I HAVE BOUGHT THIS BOOK FOR ALL THE PEOPLE THAT I LOVE AND THEY TOO ARE EXPERIENCING GREATER HEALTH. I also recommend reading "The Schwarzbein Principle" "The truth about losing weight, being healthy and feeling younger" by Diana Schwarzbein, MD and Nancy Deville, also a five star
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Summary: Cooking REAL food.
Review: This book will indubitably shift your dietary paradigms. Food will never look the same to you after reading this book. You will begin to see that a traditional diet is healthier and tastier than you ever thought possible. This book will also tell you how to cook like your great-gramma did. You will eat *real* old-fashioned foods, you will love it, and you will be healthier because of it. You MUST read this book.
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Summary: An incredible source of information
Review: If you are planning on starting a family or simply wish to enter a higher level of health - Sally Fallon's Nourishing traditions is for you.This book has many benefits for the reader, whether you wish to pursue a vegetarian or meat-based diet. Fallon's advice will maximise the potential benefit of each food you consume. We need only research on primitive tribes who lived on the diet we are so strongly advised to avoid, this day in age, to understand where Fallon's passion for this book has grown from. In your research, you will inevitably come across figures that will startle you. The modern degenerative diseases we suffer from were non-exsistent in primitive society. Fallon has bought back the ancient wisdom of primitive tribes that has been long forgotten in our society over the years.
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Summary: Fantastic Book. A must have!
Review: This book explains so much of what's wrong with our world today. There's so many illnessess, it's hard to keep count of them all. Even the children are starting to suffer.
What I found to be VERY important as a parent is the lack of sexual identity in teens referred to on page 138. Both boys and girls are not developing properly during their puberty years due to the lack of milk fats. Instead, mothers are feeding their children margerine instead of butter, soda in place of milk. Boys and girls are starting to look and behave like each other because of diminished glandular activity.
This is a great book for parents, and anyone who cares about human health. You don't want to follow the new politically correct diet. It's just not healthy, and the consequences of eating that way are showing up around the globe.
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Summary: The Best Cookbook Available!!!
Review: This is a fantastic cookbook. Why? Because the author Sally Fallon, founder of the Weston A. Price Foundation, knows that many of the modern nutrition guidelines are completely backwards. There are no recipes for food which is deliberately low in fat. She uses the traditional wholesome ingredients which have kept people virtually free of cancer and heart disease for millenia The book is excellently organized:
She begins by giving an easy to read introduction to good nutrition. This is not the type of information you'll get from the USDA; it is actually accurate, because it's based on the diets of many societies around the world who are virtually free of modern disease. It's not based on the unsubstantiated theory that eating a low fat diet is healthy. The recipes are very well laid out and categorized. They range from tasty appetizers to a variety of healthy desserts. The book also gives a little information on the nutritional value of many ingredients. This cookbook has the rare ability to shock you.
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Summary: AYURVEDA and Coconut Oil
Review: Fallon's and Enig's book is one of the greatest advances in nutritional information since the discovery of the vitamin (Casimir Funk, about 1912) and the controversial work of Carlton Fredericks and Robert Atkins. The book by the Yale medical doctor, Frank John Ninivaggi, M.D., called AN ELEMENTARY TEXTBOOK OF AYURVEDA also endorses the rational use of oils such as coconut. I recommend both!!!
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Summary: Kudos to Sally Fallon and Mary Enig
Review: Excellent book! I can't recommend it highly enough. I fully agree that the recipes are not time-consuming except for the baked goods. But hey, that's a good thing, otherwise you'd be eating too many carbs. This diet changed my life. I started it several months before getting pregnant. Not only did I not have a problem getting pregnant, but I have had excellent health the whole time. Plus this diet makes eating so enjoyable. And one of the reviewers is right when saying that cooking is not drudgery but an act of love you show your family. I thoroughly enjoy preparing my husband nutritious, delicious meals from the recipes in this book. Great job Fallon and Enig!
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Summary: Like the ideas, not the presentation
Review: Let me start by saying I agree with Sally Fallon on a LOT of issues - I'm not a fat or protein-phobe, nor am I a carbo-phobe. I believe in eating a wide variety of traditional foods, including animal products. However, I have to say that as I read more of this book, I'm somewhat disappointed. She has some great ideas that I'm definitely going to pay more attention to in my diet, like more fermented foods, and I think this book finally gave me the ammo to once and for all kick the potato chip habit. But the presentation she uses is so confusing, and worse, loaded with pseudo-science and poor reasoning, that I don't feel I can take too many of her assertions on faith. The main thrust of her theory seems to be two-fold - first that pure, natural animal products are a normal part of the human diet and second that any kind of non-traditional food processing (any factory foods) are bad. OK, I can go with that. I know many people would disagree with the first part of her theory, and even if you do agree, it's REALLY hard to find pure pasture-fed animal products, even here in the Midwest. When you can find them, they are so expensive. Not that I could even try to hit everything she covers in her book, but here are a few specific things that gave me pause - - she says vegetarians 'Because grains and pulses [that's beans for us Americans] eaten alone cannot supply complete amino acids, vegetarians must take care to balance the two at every meal.' I didn't think ANYONE still believed that. - she refers often to the nutritional work of a Dr. Weston Price. He's a dentist. OK, that doesn't necessarily mean he DOESN'T know much about nutrition (and keep in mind I wouldn't automatically assume any medical doctor knows anything about nutrition either), but it doesn't mean he DOES know anything either, yet she's clearly using his title of Dr. to try to give his words more weight. Why not just say 'Look, most people who know a lot about nutrition are self-taught'? - she vilifies a certain Dr. Frederick Stare, former head of the nutrition dept. at Harvard, quoting him several times as saying silly things like Coca-Cola makes a good snack. Some of the things she has him saying were so silly I looked him up on the internet. He was head of nutrition dept. at Harvard, yes, but he was appointed in 1941 - I think we've ALL learned a good bit about nutrition in the 60+ years since then!! But she never mentions how old this info is in her book. - she pans white flour in part because it's 'only' been in existence for about 400 years, yet defends feeding animal products to cows and chickens, referring to it as 'a practice that dates back almost 100 years'. In my experience, this kind of sloppy argument means one of two things - either the writer doesn't really understand how to construct a sound bit of persuasive reasoning and is just so excited about their beliefs that they are being a little blind about it, or they are deliberately trying to mislead. I suspect it's just the first here, but still! I don't want it to sound like I don't like the book, actually I do. I'm probably going to try a lot of her recipes and read further on many of the topics she's brought up. And I'll probably suggest the book to friends, with caveats of course. But I'm taking it with a BIG grain of salt.
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Summary: Informative and useful. Grabs attention.
Review: I liked this book. Not only does it provide great food preparation recommendations and recipes, but it also contains a lot of referenced information about nutrition and health. I've learned much from it, especially about making lacto-fermented foods and dishes based on raw meat and fish. Recipes contained in this book vary from those a beginner would easily be able to follow to pretty sophisticated ones. If I were the author of the book, one thing I would change is location of some of informational pieces. They are very interesting, and I sometimes wanted to just read them instead of recipes. So, I would put them in one or more separate sections. On the other hand, having informative notes on sides of pages is also beneficial because they attract your attention while you read a recipe, and you learn something additional. Because much of the information presented in the book is referenced, you know where to go for more details. I like it. I would like to use this chance to address someone's comment that milk should not be consumed by humans because "milk is meant for calves". If one is to use this kind of reasoning, then another logical conclusion would be not to eat meat or plants. What we call meat used to be muscles that were not meant to be eaten but to allow animals to perform necessary functions to sustain life. Same with roots, leaves, etc. Their initial functions were not to be eaten but to allow plants to get nutrients from the soil, etc. So, if we were to accept this logic, we shouldn't eat anything. This apparently is fallacious. We have evolved to use what's available, milk included. There are people who are unable to handle milk or other foods; such people should avoid them instead of telling others that that particular food is bad for everyone.
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Summary: FINALLY ..THE TRUTH!!
Review: This book is amazing! It has such incredible recipes that are pretty easy to follow if you have a good health food supplier nearby. It has LOADS of great information! I am VERY impressed! Thanks so much!!!!
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