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friend if she’d heard of any instances of the birds like, and another color for PRINCIPLES ARE THE
illness from the Living Milk dispersals skim milk. The birds have learned to DIFFERENCE
and she said that no, she’d never heard be choosy. They open the caps of the From studying Parelli natural
of any. creamy milk and leave the skim milk horsemanship, I have learned the value
Can you possibly imagine such a alone!” of principles. Principles don’t make a
setup in this country?? We do need to Nature truly does teach best! difference, they are the difference.
revisit our ideas of what is dangerous! Don Von Deinzon The Weston A. Price Foundation
provides us with dietary principles.
Katherine Czapp DENTAL HEALTH IN BULGARIA When reading the book Sugar Blues, I
Ann Arbor, Michigan Greetings from Bulgaria! Dental was frustrated by the statements “sugar
health in children is my big concern. is the cheapest source of calories” and
THE BIRDS KNOW For 45 years we were isolated from the “calories are energy.” Such statements
Thank you for your unwavering world, behind the Iron Curtain, so we might lead one to think that sugar is
message: our bodies need nutrient- were kept away from the western diet. good and acceptable. I knew this was
dense food. I avoided healthy fats for Dental checkups were mandatory and wrong and I know that you are right in
many years, only to find myself easily tooth decay was uncommon. But after your insistence on nutrient-dense foods,
fatigued. the fall of communism, when fast and but I couldn’t figure out the “how”!
Here is a story from Ranger Rick junk food quickly gained popularity, the Then it occurred to me. The premise
magazine, printed in the 1980s, about a results have been disastrous. Today 70 that sugar is calories and therefore fuel
girl who was new to Great Britain. Upon percent of our children have tooth decay, sounds good. However, it’s a takeoff
having milk delivered to the house, and every second teenager has had at from the Age of Mechanization. Ve-
something tore off the foil milk caps least one tooth extracted. The govern- hicles need fuel to perform, but they
and left dirt in the milk. What was it? ment officially approved fluoridation don’t regenerate. Living beings regener-
“The milk-snitching birds . . . were of the water and food in kindergartens, ate! You must have nutrient-dense foods
tits. These birds don’t live in North which will make things even worse, as to regenerate—including procreation
America. But they are relatives of our you know. and recovery from illness. We are not
chickadees and titmice. Last year I discovered Nutrition mechanical things, we are living beings.
“How did these birds learn to snitch and Physical Degeneration by Dr. Price In order to live and regenerate, we must
milk from bottles? People first noticed and read it all. Needless to say I got the have more than mere calories. We must
some birds taking milk about 70 years answer to all my questions concerning have real food!
ago. At that time, milk bottles in Eng- dental health and degeneration. Now, the Candis Veach
land had waxy cardboard caps, and the question is how to bring this knowledge Leorr, Iowa
birds liked to nibble on the wax. A few to the people of Bulgaria? Weston Price
birds may have pecked so hard at the is virtually unknown here; no one wants USEFUL INFORMATION
wax that their beaks went right through to pay for the translation of his book. I I have been a fan of Nourishing Tra-
the cardboard tops. Then they discov- translated a small presentation video ditions and the Weston A. Price Founda-
ered that the strange white stuff under on Google but that’s far from enough. tion for a number of years now. All of
the caps tasted good. Soon birds all over Please, advise me on what to do now. your wonderful advice has changed the
the country learned to do it, too. lives of my family. We are all so much
“The milk bottles in England have Ludmil Egov healthier!
different colored foil caps now. There’s Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria All of your issues of Wise Traditions
one color for creamy milk, which are rich with information but the last two
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