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PERFECT TEETH IN KENYA Facebook! He still lives in the village, received what I sent. However, my Maa-
I lived in Kenya for two years but has a laptop and a mobile phone. sai friend received his set and has been
(1991-1993), long before I had an inter- Sadly I found out that he now has diabe- reading and watching the materials. He
est in nutrition and health. I noticed the tes, his wife has asthma, and he told me spoke at his church and at a local school
perfectly straight teeth of everyone in that “everyone is sick here.” When I was briefly about Price and the importance
dirt-poor villages, though I didn’t ask in Kenya, they valued fat and used lots of of traditional diets. He said people are
myself why that was the case. When I it. Unfortunately, they were mostly us- interested to know more, especially the
returned home and found the Weston ing “Kimbo” as their main source of fat mothers. He called me yesterday to ask
A. Price Foundation, it resounded with (and still do), which is canned partially whether anyone from the Weston A.
me immediately because of my Kenyan hydrogenated vegetable oil. Price Foundation would come to Kenya
experience. I recently sent to Kenya three cop- to give talks in his community about
I mostly lived in Nairobi, working ies of Nutrition and Physical Degen- traditional diets and I told him I would
as a linguist for a non-profit organiza- eration, three copies of the Nourishing ask. Is there any chance that someone
tion. The first three months I spent in Traditional Diets DVD and some WAPF from WAPF would take a trip to Kenya
an orientation program in several places pamphlets. One set was for my Maasai to lecture on Price’s research?
throughout Kenya and for six of those friend, one for the pastor of Nairobi The village where my friend lives is
weeks camped in a Maasai area. At that Chapel, the church I attended while a two- or three-hour drive from Nairobi.
time, I could barely speak Swahili, but living there, and one to a Kenyan trans- Roads in Kenya aren’t good, but when
I became friends with one Maasai man lation organization. (Nairobi Chapel is I was there, this was a straightforward
who spoke English. He was the only a large church and many of the young trip—not curvy and dangerous—with
one of his father’s seventeen children University of Nairobi students attend a fine road. If I could get in touch with
who was sent to school, which is why this church.) the pastor at Nairobi Chapel I imagine a
he spoke English. I have not been able to confirm WAPF speaker would be well-received
We’ve now reconnected through whether the pastor of Nairobi Chapel there, as well. Even the nearby Uni-

WISE TRADITIONS 2014

WAPF board members Kim Schuette, Kaayla
Daniel and Sarah Pope. Pat Foreman, author of City Chicks: Keeping
Micro-flocks of Chickens as Garden Helpers,
In proper Swiss attire, Mike Mu- Compost Makers, Bio-recyclers, and Local
drak slices raw mountain cheese Food Producers, with Oprah Hen-free.
brought back by Judith Mudrak
from the annual Swiss trip.
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