Regarding your mother-in-law, Jan. It made me curious so I looked up the ingredients for margarine and this is what I found. What disturbs me the most is the shelf life! I had no idea. But, it is after-all, man made, so why not?! :-) And, reminder: hydrogenated = transfats.
Shelf life: 9 months
Ingredients
Hydrogenated Fish Oil, Soyabean Oil, Water, Salt, Monoglycerides, Lecithin, Sodium Benzoate (preservative), Anti-oxidants (BHA, BHT, TBHQ), Butter Flavour, Beta Carotene (colour), Vitamins E, D & A.

There’s a brand here in the States called “Blue Bonnet.” Maybe we’ve [tragically] exported it under another name to other countries. I don’t know. What galls me is that its ‘owner, ConAgra, used to be [may still be] in the farm-animal feed business not to mention monumentally big in “convenience foods” now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ConAgra_Foods,_Inc.

Just reading the list of “faux foods” is educational. They just recalled Skippy in Feb of 2007. I never did understand sugar in peanut butter. [Not the reason for the recall]. Sometimes I get tangential coming off the “net” after a ‘history’ lesson in our food chain. The information is hard to contain and assimilate: there’s so much! I know you know what I mean.

Yeah, Lori, common sense!! I’m trying not to eat anything with ingredients that I can’t pronounce! That goes for facial products, too.
Looking forward to more chats…
ps. Have you all checked out the Mongolian Yurts advertised on this site? Oh my!! I’m in…I’m throwing out that law of attraction and I’m in one! Fabulous! Gorgeous!! Oh My!!

It’s great to be here.

A women who contacted me by e-mail after my post on a vulvodynia site (we became friends) told me about the Body Ecology Diet. I got the book and read it, gave up my other candida program.

I ran across the Maker’s Diet book in a health food store, bought it, read it.

I got a newsletter from a naturopath who mentioned Mercola.com related to the bird flu hoax. I checked out the link and subscribed to Mercola.com.

I had heard about cabbage rejuvelac from my (Body Ecology) friend and did a search on that which led me to Bee (the candida contributor on this site).

You know what all of these people and diets have in common…a foundation in Weston A. Price dietary guidelines. The name Weston Price kept cropping up and I just couldn’t ignore it. I started following Bee’s candida diet and I read Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. I was hooked. I joined both the Weston A. Price Foundation and the Price Pottenger Foundation. I tried to find a source of raw milk and eventually found a farmer nearby who offered cow shares. I now buy grass fed beef and other products from him.

I think it takes an inquiring mind but I’m so grateful that all this information was available to me once I was interested in seeking it out.

So there wasn’t any one moment when it happened, other than perhaps my finding Mercola.com because that is where I learned of Price’s book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration.

I’ve tried to turn others on to this way of eating and find that it’s a hard sell. You do have to be open to the concept of spending the time and money to eat right, and be willing to throw out the old way of thinking. I have encouraged others to eat butter rather than margerine, but my mother-in-law still won’t do it because she has high cholesterol.

I am enjoying Nourished Magazine very much. I find that the views here support my spiritual journey as well as my dietary journey.

Thanks so much!

I’m glad you had such a great moment with your mother. My parents are interested in the whole idea but not all the work that goes into learning about what you’re eating and finding something better. Hopefully as my health continues to improve I will be my own walking advertisement!!!

I have to say, somehow Susun Weed’s herb infusions seems connected to this lineage of information. Nettle infusion has really changed my health. Before I began eating more traditional foods, Nettle infusion was one of the only things I had ever experienced that made me feel better — less run down, more nourished. Now I can say the same thing about raw organs and glands, raw milk, coconut oil and good butter, fermented grains, and bone broths. I’m so grateful for this information! Keep writing, everyone. We’re reading…

Thank you…as well, because as I read your words, the light came on, the clouds parted, and I KNEW instinctively that this is the way to go.

Sometimes common sense isn’t so common. I don’t remember who said that, but it fits.
I so enjoyed reading your post. Do continue it in an article, okay?!

Your post gave me goosebumps. The moment you had with your mum is just the kind of nourishing moment I wish for everyone.
So many of us are labouring under the “original sin” paradigm that says, we are fundamentally flawed and need to go against our ‘lower nature’ to be acceptable, whether by God (if your religious), by our friends (if your a consumerist) or by a prospective boyfriend (if you worship at the church of women’s magazines). Unfortunately this orginal sin paradigm has invaded the world of food. We are told again and again that we must fight our base nature and our desire for yummy food in order to be pure and acceptable to the dietary gods (or the medical gods in the case of your mum). This self flagellation results in perversions of all kinds (as it does with forced celibacy, separatism and other puritanical behaviours) and eating disorders and addictions abound.
The feature article in the Nourished Mag this month by Mike Cohen reminded me again the importance of staying connected with my own nature. That’s what nourishment is all about for me.
Separation from nature and denying the importance of the physical body has been the main focus of our religions and culture for quite some time now. Why else do we create so many rules around sex, the body, celebration, gathering in groups (especially female groups) and now food. All our traditions and religions are masculine. They have their place but the feminine principle has been completely undervalued. In trying to transcend the physical (the main thrust of masculine spiritual practice), we have denigrated it to the point of near destruction of our earth and our bodies (the worship and care of which is under the realm of feminine spiritual practice).
If anyone should be spreading the word, it’s us women.
Thank you Karen for your fine words. You really have the feminine gift of reaching our hearts by writing from yours.