Wise Eating (Weston A. Price Foundation)

WestonAPrice.org; Kelly Ani, Crystal Quintero, Sheldon S. (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

We eat traditional foods the wise way.

The Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) is a great source for accurate information on nutrition and health.

WAPF is always aiming to provide the scientific validation of traditional foodways.

People seeking health today often condemn certain food groups -- such as grains, dairy foods, meat, salt, fat, sauces, sweets, and nightshade vegetables -- but the Wise Traditions Diet is inclusive, not exclusive.

 

WAPF includes nourishing traditional foods in our diet through wise choices and proper preparation techniques. The result is vibrant health in every age of life, including the next generation. More

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White Sugar is the new Cocaine (audio)

Amber Larson, CC Liu, Wisdom Quarterly; Mitch Jeserich (KPFA.org, Berkeley, 5-21-14)

I snort my sugar, take the candy straight to my head, which is where it ends up anyway.

 

Live from Berkeley, Pacifica's Letters and Politics (KPFA FM) focuses in on the effects of carbohydrates and white sugar. Professor of Pediatrics Dr. Robert Lustig, M.D. (UC San Francisco School of Medicine), author of Fat Chance: Beating the Odds Against Sugar, Processed Foods, Obesity, and Disease. They also mention the pioneering work of Dr. Perlmutter, author of Grain Brain. Diabetes? Brain damage? Lack of energy? Heart disease? Obesity? The results will surprise listeners:

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Neuroscience of carbs: Grain Brain, Dr. David Perlmutter, MD (drperlmutter.com)

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PAIN: Agony and insight, it's all in the head

A BRAIN WIDER THAN THE SKY
A Migraine Diary
Author: Andrew Levy
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (289 pages)

Reviewer: Christine Montross (Washington Post)

It's no easy business to write about pain. Memoirs of illness and injury too frequently end up either as proud testimonies of endurance or self-indulgent tomes. Andrew Levy's beautiful memoir, A Brain Wider Than the Sky, is welcome relief.

A professor of English at Butler University, Levy is also an accomplished writer, who here turns his exacting gaze inward: He invites us to accompany him on a harrowing descent as he changes from a man who has suffered from occasional headaches into the victim of an unremitting, four-month-long, life-altering migraine.

Inevitably, when Levy is confronted with this disorienting and disabling pain, he is driven to wonder why he is afflicted. Happily for his readers, he does not ask, "Why me?" but rather, "Why any of us?" What follows is an affecting, readable account of the pain of migraine and the weird wonder of it. Levy seamlessly glides from the experience of his own suffering to broader neurological and historical realms, including a number of jaw-dropping anecdotes about migraine and its treatment.

Levy guides us through a range of theories regarding the causes of migraine, including Sigmund Freud's laughable hypothesis that his daughter's first menstruation gave him "a migraine from which I thought I would die." Levy also includes descriptions of patients who endured wacky and often violent attempts at treatment, such as the 17th-century intellectual Lady Anne Conway, who allowed her brother to cut open her head. Levy asserts that such a preposterous-sounding cure simply reflects the victim's desperation. More>>