Are you eating a healthy diet?

A healthy diet is based on wise dietary practices of healthy, tradtional people not on current fads. The Weston A. Price Foundation advocates 11 principles of healthy, traditional diets. These principles can be applied to a diet that includes a variety of animal and plant foods, or to a special diet. Whatever way you choose to eat, you can improve your choices by following as many of these Wise Tradtions as possible. . Here are 11 Wise Tradtions dietary principles. 1. Avoid refined and denatured foods. 2. Include foods from animals: meats, seafood, dairy and eggs. 3. Emphasize nutrient-dense foods: organ meats, eggs, animals fats, shellfish, Fish Liver Oils, and raw dairy. 4. Eat some animal foods raw; cook most plant foods. 5. Enjoy lacto-fermented condiments and beverages. 6. Prepare seeds, grains and nuts properly in order to minimize anti-nutrients and enhance digestibility. 7. Enjoy saturated fats; avoid industrial seed oils. 8. Consume animal foods from land and sea to balance omega-6 and omega-3. 9. Use unrefined salt liberally. 10. Include gelatinous bone broth in soups, stews, gravy and sauces. and 11. Emphasize nutrient-dense foods before and during pregnancy, and for growing children.

Learn more about these principles at westonaprice.org/overview