The Weston A. Price Foundation for Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts

Dr. Weston A. Price, was a dentist and researcher who traveled around the world to find the healthiest people on the planet, and study what they were eating. The Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF) is a non-profit organization dedicated to sharing the knowledge of what a healthy human diet really looks like through education, research, and activism.

Dr. Price studied Indian tribes in Canada and Florida, Islanders in the South Seas, Australian Aborigines, Maoris in New Zealand, Peruvian and Amazonian Indians, Eskimos, and African tribesmen. He found that all the diets had some things in common:

• Bone Broth
• Pasture-Fed Livestock and Traditional Fats
• Nutrient-Dense Foods, especially Vitamins A and D
• Some salt, including sea salt
• Lacto-Fermentation of seeds, grain and legumes
• NO refined foods, such as white flour or white sugar
• When dairy was present, they used Real Raw Milk, not pastuerized

Dr. Weston A. Price found that the foods that helped to keep all the different cultures healthy were whole natural foods, such as meat with its fat, organ meats, fish, insects, whole milk products, whole grains, vegetables and fruit. They did not consume anything made with white sugar, refined flour or rancid vegetable oils. Dr. Price discovered that there were sacred foods that were collected and prepared to ensure strong minds, bodies and spirits and in every one of the healthy groups there was a nutrient which was common in their diets that acted as an activator for the other nutrients. He called this nutrient Factor X and it is found in fish eggs, shellfish and butter from cows grazing on rapidly growing green grass in spring and fall. Weston Price’s research revealed that high-vitamin butter oil was almost magical, especially when combined with cod liver oil. Dr. Price used this combination of high vitamin butter and cod liver oil to successfully treat conditions such as osteoporosis, tooth decay, arthritis and rickets. This combination of Factor X in High Vitamin Butter oil combined with fermented cod liver oil was the pinnacle of Dr. Price's work.

Suggested Reading from the Weston A. Price Foundation

The following two publications are available free with membership to the Weston A. Price Foundation - become a member at www.westonaprice.org

• Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts - a quarterly journal available from The Weston A. Price Foundation

• 2011 Shopping Guide from The Weston A. Price Foundation – an incredibly useful little pocket guide for finding the healthiest food, and which foods to avoid. Categories include Real, Raw Milk products, Bone-Broth, Lacto-Fermented products, Traditional Fats, Pasture-Fed Livestock, and Nutrient-Dense Foods.

• Nourishing Traditions: The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats, (book review) was written by Sally Fallon, the president and co-founder of the Weston A. Price Foundation (WAPF). Even though this book has over 700 recipes, it is more than just a cookbook. Interspersed between the recipes are pearls of nutritional wisdom from Dr. Price and other nutritionists. Nourishing Traditions will teach you some important truths about what you’re eating and may inspire you to change your diet.

• Eat Fat, Lose Fat: Lose Weight and Feel Great with Three Delicious, Science-based Coconut Diets (book review) co-authored by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig, PhD., a nutritionist, and co-founder and Vice President of WAPF. Dr. Enig is a staunch advocate of coconut oil and has written several articles about its health benefits, especially lauric acid. Eat Fat, Lose Fat is a book explaining how a coconut- based diet can aid in weight loss due to the medium chain fatty acids in the coconut oil which speed up metabolism, thereby burning more calories and encouraging weight loss.

• The Fourfold Path to Healing by Thomas S. Cowan, PhD, with contributions by Sally Fallon – This book looks at the Healing Arts with dietary suggestions and nurturing therapies for major illnesses.

• Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price, DDS. This is the book that describes Dr. Price’s research and includes pictures from each of the countries that he visited. Pictures compare the isolated tribes eating traditional foods (beautiful wide faces with perfect, straight teeth) and their neighboring counterparts who had begun to eat modern and refined foods (narrow faces with crooked and decayed teeth).  

Weston A. Price Foundation Websites

• www.westonaprice.org – loaded with information about nutrient-dense food
• www.realmilk.com – A Campaign for Real Milk – pasture-fed, unprocessed, and Full-Fat.
  For detailed information about the safety and health benefits of raw milk, and where to find it.

Nutrient-Dense Superfoods Recommended in the Reading

Perfect Supplements is a proud sponsor (and member) of the Weston A. Price Foundation and we are committed to providing nutrient-dense superfoods.

Here is a list of the whole-food superfoods recommended in The Weston A. Price Foundation suggested reading and available through Perfect Supplements.


Perfect Coconut Oil - Pure, extra-virgin, unrefined, organic, cold-pressed Coconut Oil. Made from only the freshest coconuts which have not been bleached or deodorized and are grown without fertilizers, pesticides or herbicides.


Prescript-Assist Probiotic / Prebiotic – Combines a 30 soil-based organism (SBO) probiotic with a unique prebiotic formula. Created and researched by doctors with double-blind and human studies.


Weston A. Price recommended the combination of High-Vitamin (X Factor) Butter Oil and Cod Liver Oil. Visit Perfect Supplements’ Complete Guide to Green Pasture’s High-Vitamin Butter Oil and Cod Liver Oil for full details.


Sally Fallon includes a chapter dedicated to superfoods in Nourishing Traditions. The following superfoods were specifically mentioned; Acerola, Amalaki, Spirulina, and Chlorella. Perfect Supplements offers these superfoods in the following supplements.

Perfect Aquatic Greens Spirulina And Chlorella – a 50/50 blend of 100% pure, Organic and Fair-Trade Certified Spirulina and broken-cell wall Chlorella, two highly nutritious microscopic, freshwater, algae. High in protein and minerals.

Catie’s Whole-Food Vitamin C powder – a whole-food combination of Acerola Powder, Amla Fruit, and other naturally-occurring, high vitamin C content fruit and vegetables.

Perfect Supplements recommends the following two whole-food supplements based on suggestions from Nourishing Traditions.

Sally Fallon recommends Noni Juice as a tropical superfruit with many health benefits. Perfect Supplements offers…

Perfect Acai - 100% pure, certified organic, freeze dried acai berry. Fairly-traded and sustainably grown in the Amazon Rainforest. Acai Berry is regarded as a superfruit due to its high antioxidants and various nutrients including minerals and Omega 3,6 & 9 fatty acids.

Sally Fallon recommends Azomite Mineral Powder (in Nourishing Traditions) and Dolomite Powder (in Eat Fat, Lose Fat) for natural Calcium supplementaion. Perfect Supplements offers…

Catie’s Raw Vegetable Calcium - with Vitamin D3 from Mushroom Powders, and 20 other whole-food cofactors.

Perfect Supplements is dedicated to providing only the highest quality supplements---pure, organic (whever possible), pesticide free, sustainably-grown, and fairly-traded, with no fillers, artificial colors or flavorings. And we are proud to feature superfoods inspired by the Weston A. Price Foundation.

Please visit the Weston A. Price section in our store.