Page 8 - Summer2008

Letters

implement a new method of cooking is impossible. So we remain at logger- oil have given my Mom a new lease on
french fries. Perhaps some sort of hot heads as I continue to improve and he life. Even the severe depression she’s

oil spray that is used once, then ash chooses to remain mysti ed as to how. had most of her life is now gone.
cooked, just like fast freezing. They Elise Deitz
certainly have the resources to do such Kathy Gibb Clarion, Pennsylvania
a thing. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
John Goldmaker RAW MILK IN SWEDEN
Mississauga, Canada ANOTHER OSTEOPOROSIS CURE Thank you for all your work on
My mom, now 72, was diagnosed traditional diets. It has made a huge
Of course, the real solution is to go back with osteoporosis in her late 30s, early impact on how I and my family view
to using stable tallow. 40s. She was a heavy milk drinker food, cooking and nutrition. I am a sci-
(pasteurized) and heavy smoker. She entist and like the fact that everything
DOCTOR MYSTIFIED suffered from back problems for years on your websites is so well referenced,
I had a bone density scan over two and in 2003 had to have surgery at the but perhaps even more important is that
years ago and was told I had full blown Cleveland Clinic for compression frac- everything makes so much more com-
osteoporosis. I take three grains of Ar- tures in her lower lumbar spine. She was mon sense than the rubbish propaganda
mour thyroid every day (3/4 grain every told by local doctors and the Cleveland governments try to push on us.
six hours) and my endocrinologist is Clinic doctors that she should prepare It is possible to obtain raw milk
constantly worried that this will make to be in a wheelchair. in Sweden, as it is legal to buy direct
my osteoporosis worse. She saw a rheumatologist at Cleve- from the farm. We buy our milk from
A new scan was done recently, land Clinic a few times in 2004, but a nearby farmer who produces organic
same machine, same doctor, but differ- when he said the over-the-counter cal- milk. Unfortunately, Sweden is rather
ent results. My improvement has been cium supplements were the best source cold in the winter, so the cows are in-
so dramatic that I sit on the borderline of calcium for women, we lost all respect doors several months in a row (they do
between osteopenia and normal. I have for him. He tried to get Mom on all the get exercise once a week), and are fed
refused all the drugs my doctor has various drugs, such as Fosamax and grains along with hay (I think some of
wanted me to take (Fosamax, Evista, Evista, but she had already tried them the hay is fermented). I think that they
Boniva), and although I have the best and experienced side effects, so she are grazing outdoors for at least six
of intentions, my strength training is refused to try them again. months though, so we are satised. The

mostly done in my dreams. The only change she made back in milk tastes great and has done wonders
Diet is the key to my improvement; 2003 was I got her on raw milk and cod for my eldest as she completely stopped
most notably raw milk, raw butter, and liver oil, and she has never had another having ear infections and runny nose as
no commercial vegetable oils. I became fracture. She had stopped taking cod soon as we made the transition to raw
committed to a WAPF diet almost ve liver oil last March when she had heart milk. We also make our own whole milk

years ago after breaking my pelvis and surgery, and she was recently told by her butter milk ( lmjölk), but we are a bit
arm. Normally it takes years for im- doctor that she has “polymyalgia” be- too lazy to separate the cream.
provements to show, especially if one cause her SED rate was 126 and needed
is recovering from a major injury. My to be on prednisone immediately. We Martin Andersson
doctor is Indian which allows him to said “no” and I got her on the fermented Ostervang, Sweden
“accept” the fact that I drink raw milk, cod liver oil. The doctor is scratching
but his American medical training has his head because her SED rate is now 53
taught him that a recovery without drugs without prednisone! Diet and cod liver
6 Wise Traditions SUMMER 2008