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WISE TRADITIONS 2016 would want to eat. tility. I've been founding director of
IN ALABAMA I’m excited to see that WAPF Mission Possible World Health Inter-
What a great place for a confer- has become aware of this tremendous national for almost twenty-five years.
ence! We are now seeing a major growth geographic shift in high-quality food Every person I got off aspartame who
of sustainable farming in such states as production! In addition to witnessing was infertile got pregnant without ex-
Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida the changes first-hand, we will be able ception.
and Louisiana, especially with grass- to share our knowledge and our re- In the original studies, aspartame
fed and pasture-based livestock. This sources with this beautiful part of the caused neural tube defects, spina bifida,
is because weather and climate condi- U.S.! Well, I do declare. . . the South cleft palate and other abnormalities.
tions dictate the best-use practices of shall raise (good food) again! There is no pregnancy warning on
all farm ground. It’s as though we just Will Winter, DVM products containing aspartame. An-
remembered that the South has plenti- Minneapolis, Minnesota other point: before aspartame got on
ful and mostly gentle rainfall, a ten- the market no one had heard the term
to-twelve month-long ADD, ADHD.
growing season and Betty Martini,
lots of affordable land. D.Hum,
New farms and ranches Mission Possible
are popping up all over World Health Intl
the South, and they
plan to grow delicious, NAXOS, GREECE
nutrient-dense food. In May 2015, my wife
In addition, the and I went to Greece.
South is beginning to Most of our time was
experience exciting spent on Naxos, a
times both for lovers of mountainous island
great food and for the with traditional values.
farmers and ranchers Naxos is the largest of
who know how to raise the Cyclades and has
it! While, for a long an artistic history go-
time, Americans have ing back five thousand
been willing to im- For conference details, see page 14. years. It also supports
port much of our food from itself by agriculture.
parched areas where we could extract ASPARTAME AND INFERTILITY Naxos began to dazzle us from
underground water and haul in artifi- Regarding your upcoming confer- the start. We stayed a few nights at the
cial fertilizers, we realize that many of ence, I hope whoever is speaking about Adonis Hotel in Apollonas on the north-
these extreme production measures are infertility understands the aspartame eastern side of the island. Stamatis, the
unsustainable. In addition, the South connection (mpwhi.com). It's in the hotel owner, immediately introduced
has been growing many non-food crops book Aspartame Disease: An Ignored us to his organic wines and liquors
such as tobacco or cotton so most folks Epidemic, the thousand-page medical
there have been getting by in man-made text by H. J. Roberts, MD. Gifts and bequests to the
food deserts. In spite of a decades-long Aspartame is an endocrine-dis- Weston A. Price Foundation
exodus of population gravitating south- rupting drug that stimulates prolactin, will help ensure the gift
ward, there wasn’t much local food one changes the menses and causes infer- of good health
to future generations.

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