From the Editor:
Nourishing Children
My son turns three years old this month. Wow. In many respects it was the thought of having a child that spurred me into organizing WAP potlucks four years ago, and then into becoming a chapter leader. I have always hoped that my son would view eating Nourishing Traditions foods as normal, and that by surrounding ourselves with other people who eat the same way we can create a community in which we don’t have to struggle to defend our way of eating.
Recently I have been looking into childcare/preschool options. I’ve found a number of them that I like, but I keep running into issues around food. I hate to make a big deal about food, and I don’t want him to feel singled out by bringing his own food when others are eating communally, but I know that food is important to health.
Dr. Price describes the difference that just one meal a day can make when he writes about an experiment in which they fed children one nutrition-packed meal a day for 6 days a week.
The nutrition provided these children in this one meal included the following foods. About four ounces of tomato juice or orange juice and a teaspoonful of a mixture of equal parts of a very high vitamin natural cod liver oil and an especially high vitamin butter was given at the beginning of the meal. They then received a bowl containing approximately a pint of a very rich vegetable and meat stew, made largely from bone marrow and fine cuts of tender meat: the meat was usually broiled separately to retain its juice and then chopped very fine and added to the bone marrow meat soup which always contained finely chopped vegetables and plenty of very yellow carrots; for the next course they had cooked fruit, with very little sweetening, and rolls made from freshly ground whole wheat, which were spread with the high-vitamin butter. The wheat for the rolls was ground fresh every day in a motor driven coffee mill. Each child was also given two glasses of fresh whole milk. The menu was varied from day to day by substituting for the meat stew, fish chowder or organs of animals. From time to time, there was placed in a two quart jar a helping similar to that eaten by the children. This was brought to my laboratory for chemical analysis, which analysis showed that these meals provided approximately 1.48 grams of calcium and 1.28 grams of phosphorus in a single helping of each course. Since many of the children doubled up on the course, their intake of these minerals was much higher. I have shown in the preceding chapter that the accepted figures for the requirements of the body for calcium and phosphorus are 0.68 grams of calcium and 1.32 grams of phosphorus. It is obvious that this one meal a day plus the other two meals at home provided a real factor of safety. Clinically this program completely controlled the dental caries of each member of the group.
Several incidents of special interest occurred. Two different teachers came to me to inquire what had been done to make a particular child change from one of the poorest in the class in capacity to learn to one of the best. Dental caries is only one of the many expressions of our modern deficient nutritions.
Weston A. Price, DDS
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration
My vision of healthy childcare is a small operation in someone’s home, with about 5 to 10 children, ages 1 to 5 years (or older). The kids will spend their days making arts, crafts, music, playing outside, and preparing and eating Nourishing Traditions meals together.
Are you a parent who shares this vision? Are you interested in providing such a childcare environment? I am planning a meeting to discuss options on creating such an environment. Email me if you are interested in attending, and I will try to find a day that everyone can come.
~ Lisa
October Events:
Meeting & Potluck Dinner
Monday, October 13, 2008
6:00 to 8:00 PM
Location:
At the home of Carla Burkhart
2087 Todd St., Eugene
Directions: Take 18th Ave West. Turn left onto Todd Street (Todd St. is west of Oakpatch, and east of Bailey Hill Drive). The house is on the left.
Please bring a Nourishing Traditions style dish and join us for some great food and great conversation! Families and guests are welcome. Please bring enough food to feed the size of your party and your recipe on a 3×5 card or notepaper.
Please RSVP if you think you will be attending so that we have a rough idea of how many people to expect (but feel free to just show up).
Our potluck meetings are regularly scheduled on the second Monday of each month. We will be changing the day of the November meeting as the second Monday falls on the same day as the Wise Traditions 2008 Conference in California. We plan to have the potluck after I return. Details will be in the next newsletter. We also need volunteers to host the next few potlucks.
“The Popcorn Review”
“Good Digestion: The Key to Good Health”
by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride MD.
Friday, October 24, 2008
7:30 to 9:00 PM
Location:
Market of Choice
67 West 29th, Eugene
Upstairs in the Community Room
“Good Digestion: The Key to Good Health” is the second DVD by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride. It follows “Gut and Psychology Syndrome” DVD that we showed in July and September. In this presentation she discusses details on how the digestive system functions, and how to begin the GAPS program, with particular emphasis on how to implement the diet.
For more details see:
www.krautpounder.com/inv-pages/gaps.html
We are requesting a $5-10 donation to the Eugene Chapter at the door.
Space is limited, so please contact us to reserve your seat.
“All Diseases Begins in the Gut” ~ Hippocrates
Membership Drive
October is the final month of the fall membership drive for The Weston A. Price Foundation. If you are not already a member please consider becoming one.
By joining WAPF you will:
- Receive the quarterly journal Wise Traditions. An information packed publication.
- Support The Weston A. Price Foundation, a wonderful organization that is one of the few groups speaking the truth about our need to return to traditional diets.
- If you put my name (Lisa Bianco-Davis) as the person who referred you, you will help me win a free membership to the national conference in California next month. You may join at any time, but only memberships received before October 31st will qualify for the contest.
This membership form has my name already on it. Please download the form, print it out, enclose your payment and give it to us at an event this month, or send it to our mailing address.
If you have joined this year and already sent your membership form directly to the Foundation, please email me your name, as it may still qualify.
WAPF Eugene Chapter
c/o Lisa Bianco-Davis
965 Tyinn Street #19
Eugene, OR 97402
We are mailing the forms in together to ensure that they are all counted towards the contest.
If anyone has been waiting to become a member,
now is the time!
Memberships are $40 (or $25 for students and seniors). Membership forms are also available at our local events and on the WAPF website.
Coming in November
Wise Traditions 2008 Conference
The Wise Traditions 2008 Conference is only one month away! This is from the WAP Foundation.
LAST WEEK FOR PRE-REGISTRATION RATE OF $350
Dear Members,
The special full-conference, pre-registration fee of $350 is available until Friday, OCTOBER 3. And the special conference room rate at the San Francisco Airport Hyatt Regency Hotel is available until OCTOBER 22. So please make your arrangements in a timely manner. Bookings are way ahead of last year and some events (especially the Monday tours) may sell out.
We are looking forward to our best conference ever. I hope to see you there!
Sincerely, Sally Fallon, President
Dates:
Friday, November 7 to Sunday, November 9, 2008
(with additional special events on Monday, November 10th)
Location:
Hyatt San Francisco Airport,
1333 Bayshore Highway
Burlingame, California 94010
(650) 347-1234
www.sanfranciscoairport.hyatt.com
Full Conference Registration for WAPF members $350 (special rate ends this Friday!)
My son & I have a room reserved at a hotel near the conference (less than half mile walk).
The room has 2 queen beds, and a refrigerator (and microwave) for $89/night. We are staying Thursday night through Sunday night, but may also stay longer. We would like to share with one or more non-smoking people.
We will either drive or take a train down from Eugene. Let me know if you are interested in carpooling or sharing a room.
More details about the conference can be found at: www.westonaprice.org/conference/2008/index.html
Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteer for the Eugene Chapter
Several of you have volunteered to help out now that our Co-Chapter Leader, Victoria, is in Portland.
Thank you! I haven’t known exactly what to ask for at the time, so I’ve put together this list. If you would like to help out, please choose something and let me know what you would like to do.
We need people willing to:
- Take notes at meetings
- Help plan food preparation classes
- Submit class descriptions to newspapers
- Post fliers on bulletin boards
- Teach a class segment
- Phone call people without email
- Staff a booth at the Eugene Celebration or other events
- Host a potluck
- Assist with webpage design and/or updates
- Bookkeeping using QuickBooks
- Design of posters and fliers
- And more… If you have other ideas of ways to help out just let us know
