Here are a few interesting things that whizzed past on our radar in 2015:
The “fibre is good” con
About
12 years ago when we were telling people saturated fat was an essential
nutrient, and “low fat diets” were far from healthy, a lot of people
freaked out.Now if we start telling people that high fibre diets are are also very unhealthy, we suspect there may be some reaction.
Of well, nevermind, we’ll go ahead anyway!
You probably have been repeatedly told that fibre prevents
colon and breast cancer, lowers cholesterol, reduces the risk of heart
disease, regulates blood sugar, wards off diabetes, curbs the appetite,
induces weight loss, cleanses the colon, arrests diarrhea, and unplugs
constipation.
https://www.gutsense.org/fiber-menace/about-fiber-menace-book.html
Which low carb diet will work best?
The
SCD and the Zero Carb diet are just two of the therapeutic diets
available. Here’s an overview of what diet might be best for each
person.
For a person who is basically well:
– the WAPF diet is a good option
– or Paleo is a similar diet.
For a
person who has a chronic illness, they will often need to go to a more
restrictive diet (at least for a while), which excludes common allergens
and other hard to digest foods:
– GAPS (Gut & Psychology Syndrome)
– SCD (Specific Carbohydrate diet) which GAPS was based on
– AIP (Autoimmune Paleo) – similar to GAPS but excludes extra foods which are common allergens Or for the person who has tried the other diets and still doesn’t go well on plant foods
– Zero Carb is an option that works very well for some people.
(Note that Dr Natasha puts some of her GAPS patients on a No Plant diet
if std GAPS is not enough)
– Low Carb or ketogenic diets generally are also very successful for many people, Zero Carb being at the end of that spectrum
This chart gives an overview of what foods are allowed on each
diet. Note that there are no diets recommended that are plant based. We
believe that the animal foods are vital for human health and vegetarian
diets are best suited for short term cleansing only.
Toxic Canola Oil
This is off-putting enough and they don’t even mention that it’s GMO!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cfk2IXlZdbI&feature=youtu.be
The Koanga Institute
The Koanga Institute is home of New Zealand’s largest heritage
organic seed collection. They focus on growing nutrient dense food and
seeds in a regenerative manner for the next generation’s health and well
being.
Take a look around their website to buy seeds, take a course, or read research. http://www.koanga.org.nz/
Wheat Belly

This book is great – highly recommended – really good summary
of how wheat causes obesity, diabetes, and a range of other diseases.
And it also explains why most commercial “gluten free” foods (high starch) are just as bad as the wheat.
Wheat Belly: Lose the Wheat, Lose the Weight, and Find Your Path Back to Health by William Davis, MD
Things that can happen if you cut out “healthy whole grains”
Pottenger Cat’s
Francis Pottenger (Pottenger’s Cats) discovered
that cats should eat raw meat many years ago but unfortunately most cat
breeders and vets are now feeding cats on “dry food” – profitable and
convenient, but very bad for the cats www.ppnf.org
Here is a fantastic cat breeder in Gisborne – Super Maines
who feeds her cats on raw organic meat and fish, and her cats certainly
look very different to cats raised on Hills Science Diet
And here is a brilliant website from a lady in Australia who
breeds Ragdoll kittens, feeds them on raw foods, and doesn’t vaccinate
them.
It’s great to see that there are more breeders now who are aware of the dangers of vaccinations and the benefits of raw foods: www.Eden Lea Ragdolls
A new vegan trend seems to be vegan tattooing
The Endgame for Paleo is WAPF
As much as we like the Paleo diet as a starting point, we
prefer a Weston A. Price approach to nutrition. Paleo is good at
figuring out what foods to eat. Weston A Price focuses not only on foods
and food quality, but also food preparation. Paleo is about bringing
the food back to the cave. Weston A. Price takes it from there and
figures out how to extract the maximum nutrition from that food.
Fermentation, soaking, sprouting, making stocks and organ meats.
What really appeals about the Weston A. Price approach
is how different cultures in completely different parts of the planet
that had no way to communicate with each other, independently came up
with similar solutions to food preparation. Only when modern cultures
rejected traditional food preparation in favor of convenience and cost
saving did health begin to decline. Nutritional science is just
beginning to catch up to what our ancestors knew about food”
The Peat-atarian Diet For Those Of Us With Average IQs
Not a diet we recommend because as well as being confusing it has some major balls ups, like “sugar is good”
“I
read a lot of stuff regarding nutrition. It has been an active hobby of
mine since 2008. Although it was the Paleo Diet that rekindled my
interest in nutrition, today I consider myself more in the Weston A.
Price camp. I explained why in the post The Endgame for Paleo is WAPF.
I’ve been successful on both diets.
Earlier this year I started reading
about the dietary views of Dr. Ray Peat and his followers. Unlike Paleo
or WAPF, which are easy to understand on the surface, the Peat-atarian
articles are quite intense. They aren’t user friendly”
http://criticalmas.com/2012/11/the-peatarian-diet-for-those-of-us-with-average-iqs/
|
Paleo |
Primal |
WAPF |
Peat |
| Grains |
NO |
NO |
YES (treated only) |
NO |
| Dairy |
NO |
YES |
YES |
YES |
| Soy |
NO |
NO |
YES (fermented only) |
NO |
| Fermented Foods |
YES |
YES |
YES |
NO |
| “Salt is Good” |
YES |
YES |
YES |
YES |
| “Sugar is Good” |
NO |
NO |
NO |
YES |
| Offal + Bone Broth |
YES |
YES |
YES |
YES |
| Nuts |
YES |
YES |
YES (treated only) |
NO |
| Avoid PUFA (Omega 6) |
YES |
YES |
YES |
YES |
| Avoid PUFA (Omega 3) |
NO |
NO |
NO |
YES |
| “Saturated Fat is Good” |
YES |
YES |
YES |
YE |
You can’t afford to be skinny

And all done without fish oils too – there’s always something amazing to be found at drug counters…
The Vegetarian Myth

For
anyone who has ever been accosted by angry vegetarians, we recommend
this book – although it won’t be too shocking to anyone familiar with Weston A Price findings, we gather it’s quite a challenge for vegetarians and particularly vegans.
While
we wouldn’t give it a 100% rave review – at times when it gets into
topics other than nutrition it goes off the rails (for example the graph
on page 251 referring to climate is one of the most meaningless charts
ever published), but it’s very entertaining and well written, as well as
a scary insider account of what veganism really does to people – well worth reading.
Fathead

This movie was great, and the website is handy too
Comedian (and former health writer) Tom Naughton
replied to the blame-McDonald’s crowd by losing weight on a fat-laden
fast-food diet while demonstrating that nearly everything we’ve been
told about obesity and healthy eating is wrong.
Along with some delicious parody of Super Size Me,
Naughton served up plenty of no-bologna facts that stunned many
viewers, such as: The obesity “epidemic” has been wildly exaggerated by
the CDC. People the government classifies as “overweight” have longer
lifespans than people classified as “normal weight.” Having low
cholesterol is unhealthy.
Lowfat
diets can lead to depression and type II diabetes. Saturated fat
doesn’t cause heart disease — but sugars, starches and processed
vegetable oils do.
The NZ ministry of heath gave some good advice once
But that was back in 1944
Eat fish, liver, kidneys, cheese, take cod liver oil daily, get plenty of sunshine…

Isn’t it amazing what even the NZ dept of health was telling people back in 1944?
The medicine is often worse than the disease
Sir William Osler (July 12, 1849 –
December 29, 1919) was a Canadian physician and one of the four
founding professors of Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Gut death by Roundup
How the roundup left in non-organic wheat destroys the beneficial bacteria in your gut, as if they are weeds
http://www.thehealthyhomeeconomist.com/roundup-quick-death-for-weeds-slow-and-painful-death-for-you/
Best food for cats
For an excellent guide to feeding cats we highly recommend Natural Nutrition for Cats by Kymythy Schultze
Hi Kymythy
Many thanks for all you fantastic
advice and for helping people think about things beyond feeding their
pets as well – like avoiding microwaves and fluoridated water.
Our own cat is a third generation
raw organic food cat who weighs in at 18lbs of solid muscle – he’s
never tasted cooked food, and he’s never been sick.
I think Natural Nutrition for
Cats would also make a brilliant book for human diet with barely any
changes – especially the part about avoiding grains….
Cheers Ian
ps. Here’s a pic of our cat Christo

Dear Ian,
Well
thank you for making my day! Yes, I totally agree with you about the
cat diet being good for we humans also (with a few more above-ground
veggies added). Your cat Christo is a very handsome boy…and a very
fortunate cat to have you to care for him!
I
am a big fan of the Weston Price Foundation…how wonderful that you have
a chapter in your area! I sure wish I could visit it in person as I
have wanted to see New Zealand since I was a child. Please let me know
if I can be of any help to your efforts to help others.
Thanks again for the email, Kymythy
New Zealand has an anti health magazine

“Healthy Options” www.healthyoptions.co.nz
– New Zealand’s low fat, pro vegetarian “health” magazine, in which the
cure for all illnesses is fresh fruit and veg, and the word “meat” is
seldom uttered, once published a short article on the work of Weston A
Price.
The editor wrote “sometimes it is
a good thing to be confronted by a challenging situation… the article
based on the nutritional principles of Dr Weston A Price could evoke
this response”
The article, which was a good
introduction written by someone who understands and follows WAPF dietary
principles, is pretty much the antithesis of most of the articles
published in Healthy Options magazine, so it was really quite remarkable
to see it in there
But they have been careful to avoid mentioning anything positive about eating meat since!
Trillion
New
Zealand rapper Jody Lloyd, aka Trillion, has put out some brilliant
stuff on vaccinations, cell phones, fluoridation – awesome – all
available on youtube
Clearwaters Yoghurt

Nearly all wine sold in NZ is full of toxic preservatives.

Meanwhile there is an excellent wine shop in Auckland named “Wine Circle” that sells preservative free and organic wines – online sales available on their website.
The most stylish water fountain in Wellington

Moore Wilsons wellington have a very cool fountain
It has clean fluoride free water
It’s not set up for bigtime
bottle filling and they have a gold coin donation box, but it’s more
convenient than driving to Petone or Lower Hutt for small amounts
unless you already live in the Hutt!
Sean Croxton Videos
The full gallery of Sean Croxton clips are available to view online here
Principles of healthy diets brochures
We’ve given out thousands of these
because they are such a brilliant summary in one small brochure. They
cover Weston A Price’s studies, traditional diets, fats, dietary
dangers, bogus politically correct nutrition, saturated fats, fat
soluble activators, common myths about nutrition, dangers of soy, and
more.
For anyone who would like to see one there is an online copy here:
Teeth by Coca Cola
“The Coca-Cola
Company exists to benefit and refresh everyone who is touched by our
business. Founded in 1886, our Company is the world’s leading
manufacturer, marketer, and distributor of nonalcoholic beverage
concentrates and syrups, used to produce more than 230 beverage brands.
Our corporate headquarters are in Atlanta, with local operations in
nearly 200 countries around the world”
If you would like to read a more honest summary of the evil beverage see our page on coca cola
Cast iron frying pans

Over
the past 60 years Du Pont has conned almost everyone into using Teflon
frying pans. Now it’s like an underground secret, but cast iron frying
pans make everything taste better. For frying meats, A LOT BETTER! It
also turns out Teflon is very toxic.
Although far cheaper ones are available, the best cast iron frying pans
are French Le Creuset ones which are available from online shops like
the studio of tablewear
They are eye wateringly expensive at around $320 for a 26cm one with a
wooden handle, but the food comes out so well they may almost be worth
it. A more reasonable option is to find a well used and well seasoned
one second hand. But the cheap new Chinese ones from places like Briscos
are very inferior and may put heavy metals into your food.
Apart from the vastly improved flavour, the other good bit is that a
good cast frying pan is almost as non-stick as Teflon and they are not
poisoning you with toxic teflon. And they last for decades and get
better with age.
A cheaper option that also works well is stainless steel. Just be sure to avoid teflon pans like the plague.
Reilly’s peanut butter

This stuff is the bomb. Made to Sally Fallon’s recipe from soaked and dried organic peanuts, coconut oil, sea salt and honey.
Also available in almond brazil, and chocolate hazelnut.
These are all stocked at Common Sense Organics.
Seen on a bus
We are all over the place!

