Nourishing Traditional Diets

6 hours

Nourishing Traditional Diets

Description

The answer to the question, “What is a healthy diet?” we can look to the work of Weston A. Price, who studied the diets of healthy traditional peoples during the 1930s and 1940s. He found fourteen groups with excellent dental health (no cavities, no dental deformities) and excellent overall health. Their diets contained no refined or processed foods and were extremely nutrient dense, containing at least four times the minerals and ten times the fat-soluble vitamins as the American diet of his day. Sources of these fat-soluble vitamins include certain seafoods (fish eggs, fish livers, fish liver oils, fish heads) and the fats and organ meats of land animals (including butter, egg yolks, liver, poultry fat). These foods were considered especially important before conception, during pregnancy and lactation and for growth of the child. Other principles of healthy traditional diets include inclusion of raw animal food, use of lacto-fermented foods, use of bone broths, proper preparation of grains to minimize anti-nutrients and inclusion of salt. Lastly, nonindustrialized people practiced the spacing of children to allow the mother to recover her nutritional stores between pregnancies.

Learning Objectives

  • Describe the methods and findings of Weston A. Price.
  • Identify the fat-soluble activators and their purposes.
  • List the foods richest in the fat-soluble activators.
  • Describe the steps taken to ensure healthy children in primitive societies.
  • Identify a reason that all traditional cultures ate some of their animal foods raw.
  • Describe the anti-nutrients in seed foods and how they are neutralized.
  • Identify the health benefits of lacto-fermented foods.
  • Identify the health benefits of raw milk.
  • Describe the major types of fatty acids.
  • Identify the role of saturated fat in human physiology.
  • Identify the health benefits of bone broths.
  • List the purposes of salt in the diet.

Course Content

  • Nourishing Traditional Diets – Part 1 3h 00min
  • Nourishing Traditional Diets – Part 2 3h 00min

Instructor

Sally Fallon Morell is founding president of The Weston A. Price Foundation (westonaprice.org), a non-profit nutrition education foundation dedicated to returning nutrient-dense food to American tables. She is also the founder of A Campaign for Real Milk (realmilk.com), which has as its goal universal access to clean raw milk from pasture-fed animals. She is the author of the best-selling cookbook Nourishing Traditions (with Mary G. Enig, PhD); The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care (with Thomas S. Cowan, MD); Nourishing Broth (with Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN); Nourishing Fats; and Nourishing Diets.

Her latest book is The Contagion Myth, co-authored with Thomas S Cowan, MD. She and her husband Geoffrey Morell are owners of P A Bowen Farmstead (pabowenfarmstead.com) in Southern Maryland, which produces raw cheese and milk from pastured cows, woodlands whey-fed pork and grass-fed poultry and eggs.

Continuing Education Approvals

  • Canadian Federation of Aromatherapists (CFA)

    3 CEUs total (up to 3 CEUs Category B) -Direct Approval
  • National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (Provider #1583) (NCBTMB)

    6 hours total (up to 6 hours Advanced Science) -Direct Approval
  • New Hampshire Association of Naturopathic Doctors (NHAND)

    6 CEUs total (up to 6 CEUs General) -Direct Approval
  • Vermont Office of Professional Regulation (VT OPR)

    6 hours total (up to 6 hours General) -Direct Approval
  • Alliance of International Aromatherapists (AIA)

    3 CPDs total (up to 3 CPDs Category B) -Assumed Approval
  • Arizona Naturopathic Physicians Medical Board (AZ NPMB)

    6 CMEs total (up to 6 CMEs General) -Assumed Approval
  • College of Naturopathic Doctors of Alberta (CNDA)

    6 continuing competence credits total -Assumed Approval
  • College of Naturopathic Physicians of British Columbia (CNPBC)

    6 hours total (up to 6 hours Category C - Educational Courses) -Assumed Approval
  • College of Naturopaths of Ontario (CONO)

    6 credits total (up to 6 credits Category B) -Assumed Approval
  • Colorado Office of Naturopathic Doctor Registration (CO ONDR)

    6 PDAs total -Assumed Approval
  • Connecticut Department of Public Health: Naturopathic Physician Licensure (CT DPH: NPL)

    6 hours total -Assumed Approval
  • Council for Homeopathic Certification (CHC)

    6 CEUs total (up to 6 CEUs Category 2) -Assumed Approval
  • District of Columbia Health Regulation and Licensing Administration (DC HRLA)

    6 hours total -Assumed Approval
  • Hawaii Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs Professional & Vocational Licensing (HI DCCA)

    6 CEs total (up to 6 CEs General) -Assumed Approval
  • Idaho Board of Medicine: Naturopathic Medical Board (ID BOM: NMB)

    6 hours total (up to 6 hours General) -Assumed Approval
  • Kansas State Board of Healing Arts (KS SBHA)

    6 CEUs total -Assumed Approval
  • Maine Board of Complementary Health Care Providers (ME BCHCP)

    6 hours total (up to 6 hours General) -Assumed Approval
  • Manitoba Naturopathic Association (MNA)

    6 hours total (up to 6 hours Category B) -Assumed Approval
  • Maryland Board of Physicians (MD BP)

    6 hours total -Assumed Approval
  • Minnesota Board of Medical Practice (MN BMP)

    6 contact hours total (up to 6 contact hours General) -Assumed Approval
  • Montana Board of Alternative Health Care (MT BAHC)

    6 hours total (up to 6 hours General) -Assumed Approval
  • North Dakota Board of Integrative Health Care (ND BIHC)

    6 credits total (up to 6 credits General) -Assumed Approval
  • Rhode Island Department of Health: Board of Medical Licensure and Discipline (RI DOH: BMLD)

    6 hours total -Assumed Approval
  • Saskatchewan Association of Naturopathic Practitioners (SANP)

    6 hours total (up to 6 hours Category C) -Assumed Approval
  • Utah Naturopathic Physician Licensing Board (UT NPLB)

    6 CEs total (up to 6 CEs General) -Assumed Approval
  • Washington State Department of Health: Board of Naturopathy (WA DOH: BON)

    6 hours total (up to 6 hours Category 2) -Assumed Approval
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