New Vaccination Image Galley

We have just added an image galley to our page about vaccinations, as this subject is the hot topic of distraction and misinformation at the moment - http://www.frot.co.nz/wapf/vaccinations.htm

The SCD and the Zero Carb diet are just two of the therapeutic diets available. Here's an overview of what diet might be best for each person.

For a person who is basically well:
- the WAPF diet is a good option
- or Paleo is a similar diet which we also support.

For a person who has a chronic illness, they will often need to go to a more restrictive diet (at least for a while), which excludes common allergens and other hard to digest foods:
- GAPS (Gut & Psychology Syndrome)
- SCD (Specific Carbohydrate diet) which GAPS was based on
- AIP (Autoimmune Paleo) - similar to GAPS but excludes extra foods which are common allergens

Or for the person who has tried the other diets and still doesn't go well on plant foods
- Zero Carb is an option that works very well for some people. (Note that Dr Natasha puts some of her GAPS patients on a No Plant diet if std GAPS is not enough)
- Low Carb or ketogenic diets generally are also very successful for many people, Zero Carb being at the end of that spectrum
This chart gives an overview of what foods are allowed on each diet. Note that there are no diets recommended that are plant based. We believe that the animal foods are vital for human health and vegetarian diets are best suited for short term cleansing only.

The fibre con

About 10 years ago when we were telling people saturated fat was an essential nutrient, and "low fat diets" were far from healthy, a lot of people freaked out.

Now if we start telling people that high fibre diets are are also very unhealthy, we suspect there may be some reaction.

Of well, nevermind!

You probably have been repeatedly told that fibre prevents colon and breast cancer, lowers cholesterol, reduces the risk of heart disease, regulates blood sugar, wards off diabetes, curbs the appetite, induces weight loss, cleanses the colon, arrests diarrhoea, and unplugs constipation.

Toxic Canola Oil

This is off-putting enough and they don't even mention that it's GMO!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfk2IXlZdbI&feature=youtu.be

The Koanga Institute

The Koanga Institute is home of New Zealand's largest heritage organic seed collection. They focus on growing nutrient dense food and seeds in a regenerative manner for the next generation's health and well being.
Take a look around their website to buy seeds, take a course, or read research. http://www.koanga.org.nz/
 

 

Wheat Belly

This book is great - highly recommended - really good summary of how wheat causes obesity, diabetes, and a range of other diseases.

And it also explains why most commercial "gluten free" foods (high starch) are just as bad as the wheat.

Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health by William Davis, MD

http://www.westonaprice.org/thumbs-up-reviews/wheat-belly-by-william-davis


 Things that can happen if you cut out "healthy whole grains"

Raw Food Cats

Here is a brilliant website from a lady in Australia who breeds Ragdoll kittens, feeds them on raw foods, and doesn’t vaccinate them.

It’s great to see that there are more breeders now who are aware of the dangers of vaccinations and the benefits of raw foods:  www.Eden Lea Ragdolls

Francis Pottenger (Pottenger Cats) discovered that cats should eat raw meat many years ago but unfortunately most cat breeders and vets are now feeding cats on “dry food” – profitable and convenient, but very bad for the cats www.ppnf.org

Here is a fantastic cat breeder in Gisborne Super Maines who feeds her cats on raw organic meat and fish, and her cats certainly look very different to cats raised on Hills Science Diet!

Will blogging be the next big thing again?

Facebook tends to bury interesting information in a sea of trivia, while blogger (owned by Google) seems to do better in Google searches, and blogs are more convenient to update than web pages, so we are going to keep posting updates on this blog.

We also have a page on Facebook

A new vegan trend seems to be vegan tattooing!

The Endgame for Paleo is WAPF

A great post coving something we have wondered ourselves - why is there infighting between Paleo and WAPF - we are all on the same side

http://criticalmas.com/2012/08/the-endgame-for-paleo-is-wapf/

"There have been a few popular Weston A. Price (WAPF) bloggers that have attacked the Paleo diet. I understand some of their criticisms, but dislike their techniques. I find that the two diets to be highly complimentary. For those new to these terms, check out my post Paleo vs Weston Price. I like the Paleo diet as a starting spot. Turning back your diet 10,000 years is a great way to reboot your internal operating system. Dropping the neolithic poisons and eating a diet made up of foods our ancestors thrived upon is an effective strategy many have used to improve their health.

As much as I like the Paleo diet as a starting point, I prefer a Weston A. Price approach to nutrition. Paleo is good at figuring out what foods to eat. Weston A Price focuses not only on foods and food quality, but also food preparation. Paleo is about bringing the food back to the cave. Weston A. Price takes it from there and figures out how to extract the maximum nutrition from that food. Fermentation, soaking, sprouting, making stocks and organ meats.

What really appeals to me about the Weston A. Price approach is how different cultures in completely different parts of the planet that had no way to communicate with each other, independently came up with similar solutions to food preparation. Only when modern cultures rejected traditional food preparation in favor of convenience and cost saving did health begin to decline. Nutritional science is just beginning to catch up to what our ancestors knew about food"

The Peat-atarian Diet For Those Of Us With Average IQs

"I read a lot of stuff regarding nutrition. It has been an active hobby of mine since 2008. Although it was the Paleo Diet that rekindled my interest in nutrition, today I consider myself more in the Weston A. Price camp. I explained why in the post The Endgame for Paleo is WAPF. I’ve been successful on both diets. Earlier this year I started reading about the dietary views of Dr. Ray Peat and his followers. Unlike Paleo or WAPF, which are easy to understand on the surface, the Peat-atarian articles are quite intense. They aren’t user friendly"


http://criticalmas.com/2012/11/the-peatarian-diet-for-those-of-us-with-average-iqs/

	Paleo	Primal	WAPF	Peat
Grains	NO	NO	YES (treated only)	NO
Dairy	NO	YES	YES	YES
Soy	NO	NO	YES (fermented only)	NO
Fermented Foods	YES	YES	YES	NO
"Salt is Good"	YES	YES	YES	YES
"Sugar is Good"	NO	NO	NO	YES
Offal + Bone Broth	YES	YES	YES	YES
Nuts	YES	YES	YES (treated only)	NO
Avoid PUFA (Omega 6)	YES	YES	YES	YES
Avoid PUFA (Omega 3)	NO	NO	NO	YES
"Saturated Fat is Good"	YES	YES	YES	YES

You can't afford to be skinny!

And all done without fish oils too!!!! - there's always something amazing to be found at drug counters...

The Vegetarian Myth

For anyone who has ever been accosted by angry vegetarians, we recommend this book - although it won't be too shocking to anyone familiar with Weston A Price findings, we gather it's quite a challenge for vegetarians and particularly vegans.

While we wouldn't give it a 100% rave review - at times when it gets into topics other than nutrition it goes off the rails (for example the graph on page 251 referring to climate is one of the most meaningless charts ever published!), but it's very entertaining and well written, as well as a scary insider account of what veganism really does to people - well worth reading.

Fat Head

This movie was brilliant, and the website is great too! - 

Comedian (and former health writer) Tom Naughton replies to the blame-McDonald’s crowd by losing weight on a fat-laden fast-food diet while demonstrating that nearly everything we’ve been told about obesity and healthy eating is wrong. 

Along with some delicious parody of Super Size Me, Naughton serves up plenty of no-bologna facts that will stun most viewers, such as: The obesity “epidemic” has been wildly exaggerated by the CDC. People the government classifies as “overweight” have longer lifespans than people classified as “normal weight.” Having low cholesterol is unhealthy. 

Lowfat diets can lead to depression and type II diabetes. Saturated fat doesn’t cause heart disease — but sugars, starches and processed vegetable oils do.

 

NZ Dept Of Health ad from 1944

Eat fish, liver, kidneys, cheese

take cod liver oil daily, get plenty of sunshine...

Isn’t it amazing what even the NZ dept of health was telling people back in 1944?

Medicine is often worse than disease

Sir William Osler (July 12, 1849 – December 29, 1919) was a Canadian physician and one of the four founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital.

Gut death by Roundup

How the roundup left in non-organic wheat destroys the beneficial bacteria in your gut, as if they are weeds

http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/roundup-quick-death-for-weeds-slow-and-painful-death-for-you/

Hawkhurst's Biodynamic Wine

Hawkhurst's Biodynamic Vineyards have organic preservative free wines available online from their website

Best Foods for Cats

For an excellent guide to feeding cats we highly recommend Natural Nutrition for Cats by Kymythy Schultze 

Hi Kymythy

Many thanks for all you fantastic advice and for helping people think about things beyond feeding their pets as well – like avoiding microwaves and fluoridated water.

Our own cat is a third generation raw organic food cat who weighs in at 18lbs of solid muscle – he’s never tasted cooked food, and he’s never been sick.

I think Natural Nutrition for Cats would also make a brilliant book for human diet with barely any changes – especially the part about avoiding grains….

Cheers Ian

ps. Here’s a pic of our cat Christo 

Dear Ian,

Well thank you for making my day!  Yes, I totally agree with you about the cat diet being good for we humans also (with a few more above-ground veggies added).  Your cat Christo is a very handsome boy...and a very fortunate cat to have you to care for him! 

I am a big fan of the Weston Price Foundation...how wonderful that you have a chapter in your area!  I sure wish I could visit it in person as I have wanted to see New Zealand since I was a child.  Please let me know if I can be of any help to your efforts to help others.

Thanks again for the email,

Kymythy

www.kymythy.com

FRESH UP imports apples from China

“At Frucor, we set ourselves the highest possible standards and are always on the look out for ways to do things better.

Whether it’s thinking improved nutrition, looking after the community or protecting our environment, we take social responsibilty seriously”

So how does selling Chinese tinned apple sauce fit into that?


I used to like eating the stuff, and am appalled that NZ grown apple products have been replaced by Chinese ones


It’s a shame that we can no longer use or recommend such an iconic NZ brand as Fresh Up…..



“Quality is everywhere at Frucor. When we're creating a new product, we listen to you.”



NZ organic products are what we are looking for. Price is not crucial. Please create a new product range!



Regards Ian


Ian Gregson - Wellington Chapter Weston A Price Foundation



Dear Ian,


Thank you for your feedback.


The reason we have had to change the product is because the New Zealand manufacturer decommissioned their production line. 
You can be assured however that the product from China meets our rigorous quality standards. 


I appreciate that there has been negative publicity about various products from China which unfortunately is caused by a small minority of disreputable operators.


That should not however detract from the fact that China produces a vast amount of high quality produce which is used by the worlds leading consumer goods companies. 


Without Chinese produce there would be insufficient world supply of many of these products, and that includes apple based products.


You will be pleased to know however that our Fresh Up fruit juice range is still made from 100% New Zealand grown apples as it has been for the last 48 years. So long as reasonably possible we will keep it that way.

Kind regards,

Carl Bergstrom
CEO Frucor - New Zealand 

healthy options

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“Healthy Options” www.healthyoptions.co.nz New Zealand’s low fat, pro vegetarian “health” magazine, in which the cure for all illnesses is fresh fruit and veg, and the word “meat” is seldom uttered, once published a short article on the work of Weston A Price.

The editor wrote “sometimes it is a good thing to be confronted by a challenging situation… the article based on the nutritional principles of Dr Weston A Price could evoke this response”

The article, which is a good introduction written by someone who understands and follows WAPF dietary principles, is pretty much the antithesis of most of the articles published in Healthy Options magazine, so it was really quite remarkable to see it in there!

Trillion

New Zealand rapper Jody Lloyd, aka Trillion has put out some brilliant stuff on vaccinations, cell phones, fluoridation - awesome - all available on youtube

clearwaters organic dairy

for some great yoghurt that tastes like the real thing, try some Clearwaters Organic Dairy Farm yoghurt

one of the best sites on the web

for anyone seeking the kind of news and information that will not be televised, The Corbett Report is an amazing rescource

preservative free wine

Auckland chapter co-leader Natalie Carrad's husband Chris has an excellent wine shop named "Wine Circle" that sells preservative free and organic wines - online sales available on their website

www.winecircle.co.nz

new water fountain

Moore Wilsons wellington have a cool new fountain

It has clean fluoride free water

It's not set up for bigtime bottle filling and they have a gold coin donation box, but it's more convenient than driving to Petone for small amounts

unless you live in Petone....

Sean Croxton vids

The full gallery of Sean Croxton clips is available to view online here

brouchure download

Principles of healthy diets brochures

We’ve been passing these out because they are such a brilliant summary in one small brochure. They cover Weston A Price’s studies, traditional diets, fats, dietary dangers, bogus politically correct nutrition, saturated fats, fat soluble activators, common myths about nutrition, dangers of soy, and more. For anyone who would like to see one there is an online copy here:

www.westonaprice.org/brochures

pictures of wellington

the top one is hawkins hill and the boats are at the waterfront near frank kitts park - Wellington is an awesome place!

teeth by coca cola

"The Coca-Cola Company exists to benefit and refresh everyone who is touched by our business. Founded in 1886, our Company is the world's leading manufacturer, marketer, and distributor of nonalcoholic beverage concentrates and syrups, used to produce more than 230 beverage brands. Our corporate headquarters are in Atlanta, with local operations in nearly 200 countries around the world"

if you would like to read a more honest summary of the evil beverage see this page on coca cola

cast iron frying pans

Cast iron frying pans

Over the past 60 years Du Pont has conned almost everyone into using Teflon frying pans. Now it’s like an underground secret, but cast iron frying pans make everything taste better. For frying meats, A LOT BETTER! It also turns out Teflon is very toxic.

Although far cheaper ones are available, the best cast iron frying pans are French Le Creuset ones which are available from online shops like table pride and the studio of tablewear

They are eye wateringly expensive at around $300 for a 28cm one with a wooden handle, but the food comes out so well they may be worth it! Otherwise find a well used and well seasoned one second hand. The cheap new Chinese ones from places like Briscos are very inferior and may put heavy metals into your food.

Apart from the vastly improved flavour, the other good bit is that a good cast frying pan is almost as non-stick as Teflon and they are not poisoning you with toxic teflon. And they last for decades and get better with age.

A cheaper option that also works well is stainless steel. Just be sure to avoid teflon like the plague. 

seen on a bus

we are all over the place!

peanut butter

Reilly's peanut butter - this stuff is the bomb. Made to Sally Fallon’s recipe from soaked and dried organic peanuts, coconut oil, sea salt and honey. We keep it in stock because we have created a cult of addicts who come and buy jars of it urgently whenever they are hanging out!

also available in almond brazil, and chocolate hazelnut, and in honey free versions for GAPS etc

online at www.naturefoods.co.nz