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THE WESTON A. PRICE President’s Message
FOUNDATION ®
Education Research Activism
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Sally Fallon, MA, President and Treasurer In this issue, we focus on the past, specically on the use of mer-
Mary Enig, PhD, FACN, CNS, Vice President cury in the practice of “heroic” medicine, that is, medicine predicated
Geoffrey Morell, ND, JP, Secretary
Tom Cowan, MD on the assumption that only aggressive and toxic methods can heal
Cherie Calvert disease. Even though it was obvious to many observers for hundreds of
Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN
Valerie Curry Joyner years that strong mercury-based medicines like calomel did not alleviate
GENERAL COUNSEL suffering, and in fact caused long-term harm, physicians continued to
James Turner, Esq. prescribe “heroic” doses of calomel well into the 1920s.
HONORARY BOARD Physicians no longer use calomel, but the paradigm of “heroic”
Jen Allbritton, BS, CN medicine is still with us in the form of radiation and chemotherapy
Christian B. Allen, PhD
Naomi Baumslag, MD, MPH for cancer patients (doctors go aggressively after tumors and hope the
Marie A. Bishop, CDC
Jerry Brunetti patient manages to live), multiple vaccinations for children and antibi-
Natasha Campbell-McBride, MD otics for almost everything (on the conviction that the only good germ
Lee Clifford, MS, CCN
Christapher Cogswell, MA is a dead germ). But perhaps the greatest evil of modern medicine is
Monica Corrado
Janice Curtin the aggressive campaign against cholesterol, in which the entire adult
Eric Davis, BDSc, DAc, DCN population, and even many young people, are targets for cholesterol-
William Campbell Douglass, MD
Sara Bachman Ducey, MS, CNS lowering drugs and everyone, including growing children, is subject to
James A. Duke, PhD “heroic” lowfat diets to save them from the evils of high cholesterol.
Carol Esche, DNP, MA, RN, CNA
Mike Fitzpatrick, PhD Even though the adverse effects of cholesterol-lowering measures are
Ruth Ann Foster, MA
Donna Gates, BS, MEd obvious to anyone who cares to look and who possesses an ounce of
Zac Goldsmith, Editor, The Ecologist common sense—growth problems and learning disorders in children to
Nicholas Gonzalez, MD
Trauger Groh depression, nervous disorders, weakness and infertility in adults—doc-
Joann S. Grohman tors continue to push cholesterol levels as low as they can go, the patient
Barry Anthony Groves
Beatrice Trum Hunter, MA be damned. Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs will eventually go the
Richard James, MBA, LLD
Larry Klein way of calomel, but if history is any guide, it will take many years for
Kilmer McCully, AB, MD, MA (hon) them to disappear completely.
Frank Melograna, MD
Carlos Monteiro Many natural and nontoxic schools of medicine emerged as a
Joseph Mercola, DO reaction to heroic medicine, including homeopathy; so, too, the Weston
Kenneth Fielding Morehead, DOM
David Morris, BS, DC A. Price Foundation was founded as a reaction to the lowfat and anti-
Bruce Rind, MD
Julia Ross, MA cholesterol agenda. Our philosophy is based on the assumption of a
Jordan S. Rubin, NMD, CNC cooperative and sustaining natural world, one that supports the fullness
Ethan Russo, MD
Adrienne Samuels, PhD of life for those who live within her laws, rather than the hostile environ-
Jack Samuels, MSHA ment of heroic medicine, one that must be distrusted, guarded against,
Ron Schmid, ND
Andreas Schuld fought against, outsmarted, poisoned, suppressed and overcome.
Frederick I. Scott, Jr, BE, MS
C. Edgar Sheaffer, VMD The generation of children now growing up on a nourishing
Ted Spence, DDS, ND traditional diet will be the generation that ushers the Weston A. Price
Rebecca L. Stearns, LAc, DAc
Alana Sugar, CN philosophy into the main stream. Nothing gives me more hope for the
Krispin Sullivan, CN future than our ongoing Healthy Baby Gallery (see page 97). Thanks to
Joe Tarantolo, MD
John Umlauf their pioneering parents, who are wise enough to recognize the sustaining
Charles Walters, MA
Susun S. Weed principles of the natural world and the fallacies of modern materialistic
David Wetzel, BS scientism, these children will possess the strength, intelligence and will
Bruce West, DC
George Yu, MD to sweep away the last vestiges of “heroic” medicine—radiation, che-
motherapy, vaccinations, antibiotics, lowfat diets and statin drugs—and
replace them with therapies based on nutrient-dense food.
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