(susan) name of book?

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<thecolemans4@...> wrote:

(However, he oposes macrobiotics, blood typing, and

food combining, stating that no pre-industrial healthy

civilization ever used these techniques in their diets

- I'm curious how they can combine those principles...

Donna Gates, the author, uses those principals to create a therapeutic diet

for really sick people. If we all ate and lived the way so-called primitive

cultures lived and ate, we wouldn't be sick in the first place. The BED diet is

sort of an intervention to restore health. Hopefully no one would need to stay

on it long-term. In Nourishing Traditions, Sally Fallon notes that primitive

cultures lived in health without using food combining techniques, but she says

something about there being potential benefit to doing this if you are sick.

I think you might look at the two philosophies like this: Weston A. Price

philosophy is great for someone with minor health problems or someone pretty

healthy who wants to improve their health by living the way we were designed to

live. The Body Ecology Diet is for someone who is chronically ill who needs to

do something more drastic while they are recovering their health. Then they

would move onto the Weston A. Price diet once the crisis is over. That's

basically what I did -- and boy is my husband happy (he used to have to crack

open a case of green coconuts for me every week so I could culture the coconut

water!).

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