First Steps Guide
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First Steps Guide
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1.Buy a copy of NOURISHING TRADITIONS to serve as a foundational guide and cookbook.
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2.Join your local community.
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In the Bay Area:
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San Francisco Chapter of the Weston A. Price Foundation
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Online Yahoo Group the central forum for community discussions and announcements
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3.Be paired with a mentor.
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Locally, the San Francisco Chapter Leader will do the matchmaking.
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4.We encourage you to start with a single item from the list below and create changes one step at a time.
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•Eliminate all commercially processed soy foods from your household.
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•Replace sugar with natural sweeteners in moderation, such as raw local honey, grade B maple syrup, rapadura and sucanat.
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•Replace fruit juices with lacto-fermented beverages, such as kombucha, traditionally made ginger ale and beet kvass.
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Overview on Lacto–Fermentation
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Food Feature on Lacto–Fermentated Beverages
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Food Feature on Beet Kvass and Kombucha
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•Replace poly-unsaturated vegetable oils and trans fats with traditional fats such as raw and cultured butter, olive oil, sesame seed oil, coconut oil, lard, chicken fat, tallow, etc.
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•Replace industrially produced breakfast cereals with nutrient dense eggs from hens on pasture, non-nitrate bacon, homemade kefir, whole milk yogurt, and soaked oatmeal.
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•Replace pasteurized dairy products with raw and cultured dairy.
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In California, the two raw milk dairies are Claravale + Organic Pastures
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Beyond California, see Raw Milk Sources
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•Replace processed, convenience foods (boxed, packaged, prepared and canned food items) with fresh, organic, whole foods.
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•Take your daily dose of high vitamin cod liver oil – with no synthetics added. See recommended brands for Cod Liver Oil.
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First Steps Guide
