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Last Thursday Real Food Media bloggers attended the soy prison press conference in Chicago. According to a press release issued by the Weston A. Price Foundation:

Citing serious health conditions due to high levels of soy, inmates in the Illinois prison system are suing for a permanent injunction against the substitution of soy for meat in prison meals.

Everybody’s eating soy these days. Soy is a not good for you for many reasons. One of the biggest reasons is that soy depresses thyroid function.
Soy products increase the risk of thyroid disease. Source
For adults, just 30 mg of soy isoflavones per day is the amount found to have a negative impact on thyroid function. [...]

Another video from the Weston A. Price Foundation Wise Traditions 2008 conference in San Francisco. This is the second of three parts of Sally Fallon’s fascinating lecture, “Nourishing Traditional Diets”
In this excerpt, Sally talks about why it’s important to soak grains, seeds and nuts and why this was done all over the world in traditional [...]

At the WAPF Wise Traditions conference this year, they had a whole series of lectures on iodine deficiency. Contrary to popular belief, iodine deficiency is widespread in America. Iodine deficiency causes all sorts of health problems, including thyroid disease, cancer, and Down’s Syndrome.
Why are so many people iodine deficient? First of all, most of us [...]

We’re going home to California tomorrow. Before we go, I wanted to share a few photographs I took today of my family’s hometown, Oregon, Ohio.
Oregon is just outside of Toledo, just south of Lake Erie. Our family has lived here for generations. My great grandfather and my grandfather were farmers until they got driven [...]

I went to the dentist today. And guess what? No cavities!
This is the first time I’ve had no cavities in years. And you would think that I would be more prone to dental decay — considering the stress I’ve had on my body over the past year (childbirth, breast feeding).
Here’s the interesting thing… For the [...]

It appears that I have an iodine deficiency and hence hypothyroid, which means I have a low-functioning thyroid gland.
This morning I woke up and the patch on the inside of my arm had faded about 80-90%. It’s almost completely gone now!
From all the reading I’ve been doing, this is very common after pregnancy. There are [...]

Christmas is over.
We are still on vacation, though, visiting family. It’s cold in Seattle, but it’s wonderful to be with our family.
I’m thinking about goals for the new year.
1. My first goal is to lose the extra 30 pounds of baby weight by her one-year birthday, April 13th.
2. I also want to get all my [...]

Fascinating interview with Sally Fallon, President of the Weston A. Price Foundation on essential fatty acids and why saturated fats are critical to good health.
Also how good saturated fats like butter, lard, duck and goose fat, and coconut and palm oil were driven out of the marketplace by corporations profiting off of soybean oil:
http://www.metrofarm.com/assets/podcasts/2007-12-01_567dfat.mp3

I just read my friend the latest post on my friend Louisa’s blog:
http://constantstateofflux.wordpress.com/2007/12/14/the-future-of-food-life-stuff-and-eveything-else/
After I read that, “coincidentally” (not), someone else on a newsgroup posted a link to this video about the history of genetically modified food:
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNezTsrCY0Q&rel=1]
This is just an intro; I want to buy the whole video.
The scary thing is that pretty much everything you [...]