Balanced Weight and Mind

with Sally Fallon Morell

Weight loss is often on the mind, even for those who “eat right.” Today, Sally Fallon Morell, author, real food advocate, and the president of the Weston A. Price Foundation, offers ideas for how to best nourish ourselves to maintain a healthy weight and mind. As she reviews the summer Wise Traditions journal, Sally highlights topics such as the keto diet, coconut oil as a food to boost memory, and how to build up good bacteria in our bodies to fight infectious diseases. She also celebrates dietary traditions in the Ukraine–such as consuming organ meats and raw dairy–and looks at trends in the U.S. (particularly for how we nourish our children) that are troubling.

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Highlights from the conversation include:

How eating real food helps us maintain a healthy weight
Why counting calories is not the best way to measure dietary intake of nutrients
How China still has measles outbreaks, despite a 99 percent vaccination rate
The connection between potassium chloride in vaccines and SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome)
Why Sweden has banned all mandatory vaccinations
The Gardasil vaccine in Sweden & rates of cervical cancer
The benefits of ketones from coconut oil for the brain and memory
Traditional food ways in the Ukraine
Strategies for parents to help overweight children stabilize their weight
The theory of cultivating the terrain of our bodies, as opposed to the germ theory (just killing bad germs to get healthier)
The power of home-cooked meals to stabilize weight
low-fat flavored milk in schools has more sugar than sodas