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one reason not to do juicing and also not meat and bone diet, and their health was son of a 2000 issue and a 2014 issue of
to prepare certain foods in a blender or fabulous. It hadn’t occurred to me to do Wise Traditions. I turned to the back of
food processor. the same for myself. the 2000 issue and showed the single
The people Weston Price studied My energy levels now are awesome, page of the WAPF Local Chapters and
had excellent health without blenders I’m feeling physically satisfied so I don’t then the six pages of “The Shop Heard
and food processors. Are we going to want to eat quite so much, and my gum Around the World.” Then I turned to the
conclude in twenty or thirty years that disease is a thing of the past. Even my back of a 2014 issue and slowly turned
using blenders and food processors dentist is impressed as I no longer have the fifteen pages of small, dense type,
was a bad idea? We are unhappy about inflamed, sore and swollen gums. I of the current list of Local Chapters
GMOs, but might we be doing some- know my teeth will last me for the next ending with the three pages of Inter-
thing analogous when we unwittingly forty years or more. I feel better than I national Chapter! Then I turned to the
use blenders and food processors? have in years. And the food tastes better “Shop Heard Around the World” and the
William B. Schneider too! twenty-two ad pages. There were several
Los Angeles, California I try to speak to people about my gasps from the small audience and I
diet and WAPF but people look at me easily made my point about the growth
This would be an interesting subject to like I’m a nutter. They can’t get over of the organization and of how small
investigate. Certainly primitive peoples the whole “saturated fats are bad” thing. business and entrepreneurship were
did a lot of pounding and grinding of People are so well indoctrinated they alive and well. Of course, I mentioned
their food, but whether blenders and won’t even be open-minded about it. I’m the “Farm to Consumer Legal Defense
food processors cause damage to nu- a bit careful now how I share and just Fund” as well as the “Campaign for Real
trients is a subject that remains to be explain that I don’t eat processed food. Milk”
explored. Telling them that saturated fats are fine Congratulations on your continual
and healthy seems to be too much for success!
AWESOME ENERGY LEVELS them to handle. They think I´m heading Lee Clifford
I’m writing to thank the Weston for heart disease because of the nice wad New York, New York
A. Price Foundation for their valuable of butter on my eggs at lunch. Little do
information. In the past I have read they know!
hundreds of books on nutrition and de- Whenever I want information on
spite keeping religiously to conventional health I look it up on the WAPF website.
guidelines, I suffered very low energy This is my heath bible now. It provides
levels, struggled with weight gain, had all the information that I need to be
bad gum disease and always felt hungry. healthy. I will remain a member forever!
The dentist said I would lose my teeth Thanks again to all of you who run the
before long. Foundation. The information you pro-
Knowing these problems had to vide is priceless.
be diet-related, I started to research Michelle Cox
diet again with a more open mind and Patumahoe, New Zealand
Googled “the benefits of saturated
fats.” This finally led me to the Weston WAPF SUCCESS
A. Price Foundation website and it all I was at a small meet-up in New Gifts and bequests to the
made sense to me. Eat like traditional York City recently and made a brief Weston A. Price Foundation
people eat! Funnily enough, I had been presentation about the WAPF. Besides will help ensure the gift
doing that with my dog and cats for the showing the covers of Nutrition and of good health
previous five years, feeding them a raw Physical Degeneration, I did a compari- to future generations.
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