TRUSTING SYNTROPY INSTINCTS

by micheal sunanda

Oness Press, Kapoho, Puna, big isl. ‘97

NATIVE NUTRITION - Eating According to Ancestral wisdom

by Ronald Schmid, N.D. ‘94

Book rev. micheal sunanda

This brilliant survey of natural diets, both ancient & modern, includes honest descriptions, comparisons & potentials of both the traditional foods of many cultures & the standard western fatty diets. Like here’s a simiplified comparison of them:

NATIVE - organic WESTERN - agribiz

Low salt & few spices Hi fat/oils & sweetened

Mostly local grown/gathered Mostly imported agri

Rare fruit juices, except Coco Much overcooked &

Sacred home food rituals shipped & packaged

Wild & field grazing animals Grain & pen fed animals

Eating fresh fish & shellfish Hi caffeen: coke, coffee, choc

Local grown whole grains Bleached flours, pasta, pastry

Raw organic vegetables Eating as entertainment

Smoked, dried & carried Over chemo preserved

Natural gardening & herbs Chemo dairy & red meats

Traditional family diets Very salted & flavored

Unprocessed dairy Popular fast fad junk foods

Local sea,river & shore foods Pen fed & hatchery fish

Schmid is a Naturopathic doctor that writes from his experience & many others. He bases much suggestions on the extensive field work of Weston Price, a dentist/anthropologist who traveled earth studying native health in early 1900s when many natives ate organic & some were into processed foods, providing great comparison of their health. He discovered their teeth were usually perfect if on traditional natural diets, & crowded, cavitied & diseased if on imported western food types. This was widely published in 1930 & ‘40s, but was burried under the massive campaign of agribiz & chemo-medicines, denying that diet is primary source of heatlh & disease. Schmid integrates this causal evidence in his balanced explainations of foods sources & results.

Here’s the subjects he reveals the clearest, unbias approach to natural foods I’ve seen.

* Benefits & stress of; oils, grain, meats, salt, fruit, dairy

* Our natural & excess animal products & salt intakes

* Organic vs: chemical farming practices & effects

* Risks & blessings of: seafoods, natural foods, many diets

* Chemical fertilizers & Pesti/herbicides

* Whole-grain - toasted buckwheat, millet & brown rice

* Transition diets from refined to whole local foods

* Conventional chemo vs: certified raw organic dairy

* Blessings of fresh greens, raw vegies, fasting, seaweeds,

vitamin E, raw fish, extra virgin oils

* Varied diets from: Macrobiotics, Pritikan, Gerson, healing,

* Recovering from diseases thru nutrition naturally

* Many details about food sources, growing & harvesting

* Yin/yang balancing & combining different food energy

* Problems with Niteshade/Solano.../oxalic acid foods:

tomatoes, potatoes, eggplants, green-peppers, many

nuts/cashews, spinich, swiss chard, rubarb.

* A great expose’ of many different seafoods: what, where

& when to get fresh in season & packaged.

* Drawbacks with vegetarian diets, needing natural ani.oils

I love this book, condenses years of practical healthy food-

ways into easy to grasp & use(or deny & abuse) our genetic

& current health needs, respecting individual differences &

changes we all go thru .

SOME GREAT BOOKS OF DIET & HEALTH

Survival into the 21st Century & Love Your Body by

Victoras Kulvinskas, illustrated sprouting magic

The Sprouting Book ‘86 & Be Your Own Doctor - a

positive guide to natural living by Ann Wigmore, ‘

Irridology - natural health diagnosis thru our Iris exam -

B. Jensen, Food That Heal - specific diet remedies

Instinctive Eating - natures ways of living & by Zephyr ‘96

Conscious Eating - Gabriel Cousins, surveys natual foods

Nature’s First Law - The Raw Food Diet - Arlin, Dini & Wolf,

Instinctive Nutrition - Food, your body & you, Helen

Young, simple organic foods in 21 days, ‘95, 107 pg

Maximize Immunity - bodies best defence against

disease, Bruno Comby, Radical raw food scientist

from France, ‘94, 266 pg

Instinctive Nutrition - A revolutionary approach nutrition &

health - Severen Schaeffer, Celestial Arts, ‘87. 223

The Only Diet There IS - Sondra Ray, food, emotions & spirit, CA

It’s Not What You Eat But What Eats You - Jack Schwartz - CA

Diet for a New America - best case for vegetarian, John Robbins

Weston Price & Francis Pottenger Found. effects of many foods

Herbert Shelton - orginator of Natural Hygiene diet, healthways

Many by Pavlo Airola - natural health thru diet, healing & life

Mushio Kushi - on Yin/yang aspects of Macrobiotic eating &

health, good intro to Oriental diets, yin/yang balancing..

Healing with Whole Foods - Ancient traditions & modern

nutrition, Paul Pitchford, deep study.

Deepak Chopra - on ancient Auryavedic food & health systems

Many books on herbal growing, using & self-healing naturally