WAPF vs Traditional Foods

[Theloose]

What's the difference?

Is one strictly a subset of the other?

[westcoastmom]

Weston A Price Foundation (WAPF) is a non profit society dedicated to promoting the research of Weston A Price. His research showed that people who eat nutrient dense (traditional foods) have good health. WAPF promotes a restoration of nutrient dense diets for people.

[Metasequoia]

WAP is big on raw dairy, which I guess could be considered a TF - buy certainly not a Paleo food, same goes for most grains. SF has a lot of grain recipes in NT & though they're properly prepared, they're not Paleo.

Not that you asked about Paleo foods, it's just *my* big question. I have to find a balance in between because I don't think we're designed to eat large amounts of grains & I go back & forth about the dairy.

Anyway, I really not answering your question, so I'll shut up now.

[Theloose]

so there are several differing views of 'traditional foods,' depending on how far back you want to go with your traditions? and the WAPF just focuses more on dairy and grains than others?

what about all the coconut oil and cod liver oil and specific recommendations? the feeling I was getting is that the WAPF does a bunch of research and has dietary guidelines that are traditional foods-inspired, but are not necessarily traditional themselves.

[newcastlemama]

Originally Posted by whoMe

so there are several differing views of 'traditional foods,' depending on how far back you want to go with your traditions? and the WAPF just focuses more on dairy and grains than others?

what about all the coconut oil and cod liver oil and specific recommendations? the feeling I was getting is that the WAPF does a bunch of research and has dietary guidelines that are traditional foods-inspired, but are not necessarily traditional themselves.

There are many ways to go about devising a traditional foods nutient dense diet. I think their is a lot of information on milk and grains in NT and WAPF website because they are a big part of the American diet already. So they are just telling people how to do it better.

The recomendations that they make in their pregnancy diet, for example, are baed on that Weston Price found that primitive peoples ate 50,000 iu vitmain A per day. I think coconut oil recommendations are based on how much lauric acid or meduim chain fatty acids are in breastmilk and then calculated for an adult...I remember something like that. CLO recommendations may be based on the amount people used to take back in the day or what people do now. (I remember reding something about Iclandic mothers taking 2 teaspoons of CLO per day)

I would suggest reading Nutrition and Physical Degeneration because then things will make more sense. Their were many types of diets that produced awesome health in people. To me traditional foods is all about finding a away to get in all those nutrients in a diet that works for you--whether you take clo, eat dairy, coconut or not. Then people into traditional foods have their own philosphies and unique needs that is why their can be a lot of diversity in TF.

Jen