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Hi Edeco 'Weston A Price found several populations' you write! Not in the America's. If Weston would have stayed at home he would have found the Indian tribes survived very well without milk, apart from mothers milk. There were no cows in the whole continent of America prior to 1600 when beef cattle was introduced by the Dutch and the Plymouth brethren. On that note, there were no cattle or milk consumption in Australia, (beef cattle was introduced in 1788 in both Australia and New Zealand) New Zealand, North and south Africa (the Dutch introduced beef cattle in South Africa to supply meat for the East India Company ships) Indonesia, The Philippines, Korea, China, Russia (no feed for cows in the winter, the Mediterrainean countries had (and still do) goatsmilk, which was turned into cheese and salted to preserve it. North Africa can barely sustain humans, leave alone dairy cattle. The suckling off animals by infants was a repeated theme in classical mythology. Most famously, the legendary founders of Rome – the twins Romulus and Remus – were portrayed as having been raised by a she-wolf which suckled the infants, as depicted in the iconic image of the Capitoline Wolf. The Greek god Zeus was said to have been brought up by Amalthea, portrayed variously as a goat who suckled the god or as a nymph who brought him up on the milk of her goat. Similarly, Telephus, the son of the demigod Heracles, was suckled by a deer. Several famous ancient historical figures were claimed to have been suckled by animals; Cyrus I of Persia was said to have been suckled by a dog, while mares supposedly suckled Croesus, Xerxes and Lysimachus. Mowgli, the jungle boy in Rudyard Kiplings story was supposedly raised by a wolf, and Tarzan, the brain child of Edgar Rice Burroughs, was raised by an ape. In reality, though, such stories probably owed more to myth-making about such prominent figures, as they were used as evidence of their future greatness. I am also almost sure the suckling did not continue into adulthood. Can you imagine Remus and Romulus stopping the building of Rome to find the wolf, lay under it and suckle? On the other hand, many humans are now raised and suckled by a cow. This is reality, not just a myth. As milk's composition is based on raising an offspring of the same type as the mother, it is unlikely to be a healthy choice, in particular after the weaning process, when the production of lactase ceases. John Robbins has written a critique in which he reviews the history of the Weston Price Foundation and provides evidence that Weston Price had recommended a vegetarian diet to his own family members as the healthiest diet. The foundation has cited Price to the effect that he did not recommend a vegetarian diet. The anti-vegetarian and anti-soy views of the foundation have also been criticized as "myths" in several publications. The WAPF has been severely criticized for spreading false information. At present, the foundation is managed by a cookbook author and a nutritionist. The director of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration division of plant- and dairy-food safety, John Sheehan, called the organization's claims on the health benefits and safety of raw milk "false, devoid of scientific support, and misleading to consumers" Joel Fuhrman has written a series of articles entitled "The truth about the Weston Price Foundation" in which he argues the Foundation is a purveyor of "nutritional myths", largely because they have failed to update their recommendations in light of contradictory evidence. Quackwatch describes the Foundation as promoting "questionable dietary strategies" and Price's core assumptions as contrary to contemporary medical understanding. As an allergist we test our clients on 14 different types of milk and find those allergic to cows milk allergic to all forms of cows milk, raw, organic, or pasteurized. We also test on milk from water buffalo, sheep, goat, mare and camel.

Hi EDECO79, Yes, my son was on the ketogenic diet for a year about 10 years ago. He was able to get off his meds while he was on the diet, but after going off the diet they returned. At that point he elected to simply remain on prescription drugs, which, as an adult, was his decision to make. Fortunately, as drugs go, the ones he takes are effective and have only a few mild side effecdts which he manages very well. One factor that may have worked against him with the diet is that he was in his early 20's at the time. The ketogenic diet appears to work better with children, for whatever reason. Thanks for your interest. I did not mean to come across as being defensive in my comment to KelleyEidem. I used my son as an example because his situation is the one I'm most familiar with. However, I do know a number of other people who take prescription drugs--not because they want to but because they have no other choice. I get a bit ruffled by the notion that just because some drugs are unnecessary and bad, then all drugs must be unnecessary and bad. See, I prefer to deal with facts, not unfounded assumptions. I also tend to get pretty annoyed by inane extrapolations based on some unprovable statistic as an obvious bid to gain points on this website--hence my rant of yesterday. My apologies for sounding like a witch.