In this week’s video, I talk to you in depth about the importance of regular consumption of Traditional Fats and Sacred Foods. The nonindustrialized cultures studied by Dr. Weston A. Price during his travels around the world in the 1920’s and 1930’s greatly revered these foods and great care was given to provide them for pregnant women and growing children to ensure the robustness and health of future generations.
While sometimes primitive, these cultures were most definitely not stupid as sometimes portrayed.  They knew that these sacred foods held the key to the survival of their culture through effortless reproduction, strong children, and protection from infectious and degenerative disease.
The bottom line is that you will not achieve your best health without regular and liberal consumption of these foods. You may do many other things right:Â grind your own flour, eat only organic produce and clean meats, consume unprocessed grassfed milk, avoid pharmaceutical drugs/processed foods and even eat fermented foods and still be plagued with degenerative illness.
The fat soluble vitamins A, D, and K – also known as Activator X are found in high concentrations in the sacred foods. Taking supplements of these vitamins in isolation does not achieve the same effect and confers a false sense of security that health is being maintained when in fact, it is slipping away slowly but surely.
If you do not include these traditional fats and sacred foods in your diet now, find ways to incorporate them immediately. No other single change to your diet and lifestyle will give you the same benefits!
Video on Traditional Fats and Sacred Foods
I filmed the video below on Traditional Fats and Sacred Foods for the Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF). Please become a subscriber of the WAPF’s fantastic and informative YouTube channel by clicking here.
*A full transcript of this video on traditional fats and sacred foods can be viewed by clicking here.
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
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Agree with Jax’ comment! Would love to see even just one day of your menu…
Would be a great resource for me as I Transition my family’s way of eating.
Thanks!! And thanks for the post! Good info!
Wow, I’ve just begun taking Green Pasture Cod Liver Oil today along with buying a pack of Kerrygold butter at Whole Foods. I’ve noticed a big reduction in my craving for sugar.
Hi Kelli, yes – that is what I first noticed also when I introduced lots of wholesome fats into my previously lowfat diet. My sugar cravings magically came under control! So nice to realize that the sugar cravings were not some failing on my part to resist them but just an indication that I needed more fats to keep my blood sugar stable.
Thank you for the video! You may have already done this in a previous post, but if not, it would be very helpful to see an example of your family’s weekly menu. So handy for people who don’t have a lot of experience in the kitchen, or know quite how to get started or incorporate these foods in a way that will actually get eaten!
Awesome video!!! 🙂
Thanks Sarah. So much information all in one package. I plan to share this with many of my skeptical friends.
Hi Sarah, I have a question and I’m not sure what the best way to ask is (do you prefer emailed questions?) I’ve noticed since I started a WAPF (GAPS for part of that) diet several months ago, my fingernails have changed (for the worse). They seem more prone to breaking and getting ingrown or infected looking. I’m wondering if there wasn’t some vitamin added to enriched, processed foods that I was eating that I’m now not getting from a whole food source. We’re eating lots of healthy fats, grass-fed meats, raw and fermented dairy, fruits and veggies, and some fermented grains. Any tips (or have you already done a post on this) about nutrients to improve nail health?
Hi Bonny, only a few months on a traditional diet is not very long at all … my thought is perhaps you are detoxing? Fingernails, skin, hair can be a way for the body to help eliminate toxins.
Very interesting, thanks, Sarah! I was wondering if detox might be involved. My google search only led me to fortified cereals as a helpful way to strengthen nails…not too helpful! I thought checking with you would be a much better bet. 🙂
What exactly are the toxins you are describing? Perhaps you could provide the names and chemical formulas of theses “Toxins”, as well as the biochemical pathway responsible for thier elimination through fingernails. I hear the “Toxin” thrown around a lot but users of the word never seem to be able to provide any information about what it supposedly is.
I know this is an old post, but ever since I started eating seaweed and especially nori, my fingernails are so hard!
I appreciate your info and efforts at educating us! I look forward to your blog entries. In reference to your remarks about “primitive cultures,” please read some of Wade Davis’ work. “Wayfinders” is an excellent read and you, like me will realize that it is a growing consensus that the cultures unlike ours are not more primitive but in fact different with different value systems and ways to live. Thanks again.
Thanks for this video! I started a Candida/Weston A. Price diet last July and my cholesterol shut up! Luckily, I am working with a chiropractor who also follows WAP principles and he told me not to worry. It’s interesting to know that people in the past had higher cholesterol. I’m also trying to get pregnant, so it sounds like this will be a benefit.
Do you know how long fish eggs keep after they have been thawed?
Thanks,
Lori@ http://www.lorisfoodandotherstuff.com
Because I have read a lot about saturated fats, I am very pro-fat. My children are young and naturally crave the fatty bits of meat. I encourage them to gobble up all the parts and never indicate that certain pieces should be avoided (unless it is a hard bone or something!) Anyways, they eat parts that I couldn’t personally stomach because of the texture but I just give them big smiles and don’t say a word! 🙂
I do the same thing with my kids! 🙂
Great reminder! I see all to often (and have been guilty of myself) people focusing on one aspect of health (fitness, supplements, one part of nutrition, etc) and ignoring equally important parts. I absolutely agree, overall, nothing makes a bigger difference in achieving optimal health than a truly solid nutritional foundation.