The Weston A. Price Foundation



The Weston A. Price Foundation was co-founded in 1999 by Sally Fallon and nutritionist Mary G. Enig. It is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, US-tax-exempt charity founded to disseminate the research of nutrition pioneer Dr. Weston A. Price, by publicising health-promoting approaches to nutrition and the scientific validation of traditional diets.

Dr. Weston Price

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Dr. Price was a dentist and nutrition research pioneer whose work Nutritional and Physical Degeneration chronicles his fact-finding journeys around the world in the 1920s and 1930s. His purpose in this endeavour was originally to study the dental hygiene and development in native populations (including tribal Africans, Pacific Islanders, Eskimos, North and South American Indians, and Austrialian Aborigines).

The Weston A. Price Foundation
WAPF has some 50 board and honorary board members, and is comprised of more than 200 chapters throughout the United States and other countries.

The Foundation does not receive funding from any government agency or private corporation; its income is mainly derived from the contributions of its members. While many of its members are family farmers, the Foundation affirms that it "has no ties with the meat or dairy industry, nor with any organisation promoting these industries." The Foundation promotes the production of food by independent farmers and producers, and not by industry.

The Foundation is dedicated to Specific goals include establishment of universal access to clean, certified raw milk and a ban on the use of soy in infant formulas. The organisation is an active lobby in Washington, DC on issues such as government food triangle definition and composition of school lunch programmes.
 * restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human diet through education, research and activism
 * supporting particular movements that contribute to this objective including
 * accurate nutrition instruction,
 * organic and biodynamic farming,
 * pasture-feeding of livestock,
 * community-supported farms,
 * honest and informative labelling,
 * prepared parenting and nurturing therapies.

The Foundation is also known for its positive stance towards the traditional consumption of saturated fats, as well as its efforts to provide scientifically founded clarification about fats to the public. Its Vice-President, Dr. Enig, is a lipid biochemist of international repute, and one of the early voices that spoke out against the consumption of trans fat.

Nourishing Traditions by Sally Fallon, head of the Weston A. Price Foundation, is a cook book and nutritional education resource following the principles of Dr. Price. It focuses on probiotics in the form of lactic acid fermented vegetables or milk, sprouting grains, and grass-fed meats (high in omega-3 fatty acids) as well as reducing sugar intake and avoiding "new-fangled" and processed foods.

Criticisms
In 2002, Stephen Barrett of the website Quackwatch published an internet essay containing three-paragraphs that discounted the dental research findings of Weston A. Price in the 1930s as "quackery". The Weston A. Price Foundation published an 8-point response in the Fall 2005 journal Wise Traditions, which claimed that Barrett contradicted himself, and glossed over Price's 10 years of research and data collection (which appeared in peer-reviewed journals of his day).

The anti-vegetarian and anti-soy views of the Weston A. Price Foundation have attracted counter-views in several vegetarian and vegan magazines and communities. The views expressed in "The Myths of Vegetarianism" by Dr. Stephen Byrnes has a counter-view expressed in "A Response to Stephen Byrnes' "The Myths of Vegetarianism"" by Andrew Paterson.