Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats

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It makes use of high quality ingredients and certain preparation practices, along with judicious quantities and frequency of use of these things. Lots of good recipes in the book, and you'll get a ton of practice in the cooking and preparing of different foos. I found this book most valuable as an opening to thinking differently about food - and that there is a reason that much popular and media endorsed nutrition is so confusing and contradictory - it is based in political, fad, or agenda thinking rather than biological history - and the absolute flood of processed and manufactured food into our diets and the resulting explosion of health problems has everyone scrambling to come up with answers that don't offend anyone or any industries that might be implicated - or challenge too far the 'everybody says' or 'everybody knows' syndrome. I was first given this book by an herbalist friend of mine who endorsed its content and position ondiet, but warned me about Sally Fallon's "spit-and-vinegar" approach to food choices and social change.

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The discussion of acidity/alkalinity of certain foods and in the body is also confusing – the authors touch on “acid” and “alkaline” foods and how the “dictocrats” are wrong about whatever they’re currently preaching on the subject but offer no further advice. The authors are citing hundreds of technical works from both demographic and controlled experiment studies regarding thousands of different food components in their way to painting a complete picture of good nutrition.One of the key themes of the book is the importance of incorporating traditional foods into our modern diets. Then the authors introduce the idea that healthy eggs come from healthy chickens who enjoy the same things as healthy children: sunlight, fresh air, exercise, and healthy food. While it REALLY bothers me that some parents are clueless about eating smart, I can't always control what my kids eat outside of the home w/o causing some sort of scene or possibly offending our hosts. I try to stay away from grains completely these days as I have some long standing digestive issues, but if I do have them I believe they are best soaked or sprouted like this book says. In Book 1, Of the Epidemics (410-400 BCE) Hippocrates describes the cause of TB as a “weakness of the lung,” a view shared by the dentist Weston A.

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Of course, I agree that ditching processed foods and cooking with whole ingredients is how people should eat. Another problem is data mining: she accepts WAP's nutritional theories from the 1920s-30s as gospel while dismissing almost all data that don't align with those theories. I made her soaked millet porridge for breakfast the next morning - topped with milk, butter, and maple syrup (as she recommends) and it was fabulous. Unfortunately, the legitimate scientific studies and well-reasoned arguments are mixed together in equal parts with unsubstantiated, unscientific hogwash. She has tons and tons of information at the beginning of the book that feels a bit like you're reading a textbook.The book is divided into several sections, each of which covers a different aspect of traditional and holistic nutrition. However, they seem to try too hard sometimes, bringing us recipes such as a “Russian shrimp soup (Chlodnik)” – which is Russian neither in the inclusion of shrimp nor in the name – Chlodnik is a Polish name for the cold borscht type of soup popular in north eastern Europe. chapter include Mexican scrambled eggs, hard and soft boiled eggs, deviled eggs, egg-dipped French toast, pizza omelet and eggnog.

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So this stuff isn't bible by any means, but it’s a great beginning resource/wake-up if you think the USDA is your friend.I'm sure the vegans and the Atkins camp will not join forces any time soon, but their appearance in the same metaphorical room on the side of the authors' position is another indication of how multi-sided complex scientific theories can become. She has three beautiful grandchildren, all brought up according to Nourishing Traditions® principles. If you want to introduce your children to nutrient-dense staples of the traditional food lifestyle such as raw milk and cultured dairy; ferments; broth-based soups; pastured meats; traditional grain preparation methods such as soaking, sprouting, and sourdough; and naturally- and low-sweetened desserts, this book is the perfect vehicle to help kids discover traditional cooking—and to begin a life-long devotion to the delicious, healthy food they’ll create.