Sally Fallon Morell - The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care

Sally Fallon Morell, MA is founding president of the Weston A Price Foundation (www.westonaprice.org) and founder of A Campaign for Real Milk (realmilk.com).

Mrs. Fallon Morell lectures extensively around the world on issues of health and nutrition and is the nations number one spokes man for nutrient-dense diets for pregnant women and growing children. She is a prolific writer of numerous articles and books and serves as editor of Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts , the quarterly journal of the Weston A. Price Foundation.

In 1996, Mrs. Fallon Morell published the best-selling Nourishing Traditions (with Mary G. Enig, PhD), the cookbook that launched her career in alternative health.

Fallon Morell resides in Washington, DC with her husband Geoffrey Morell. She is the mother of four grown children.

Thomas S. Cowan, MD , discovered the work of the two individuals who would have the most influence on his career while teaching gardening as a Peace Corps volunteer in Swaziland, South Africa. He read Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston Price, and a fellow volunteer explained the arcane principles of Rudolf Steiners biodynamic agriculture. These events inspired him to pursue a medical degree. Cowan graduated from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine in 1984. After his residency in Family Practice at Johnson City Hospital in Johnson City, New York, he set up an anthroposophical medical practice in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Dr. Cowan relocated to San Francisco in 2003.

Dr. Cowan has served as vice president of the Physicians Association for Anthroposophical Medicine and is a founding board member of the Weston A. Price Foundation. He is the principal author of the book, The Fourfold Path to Healing , published in 2004 by New Trends Publishing. He writes the Ask the Doctor column in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts , the Foundations quarterly magazine, and has lectured throughout the United States and Canada. He has three grown children and currently practices medicine in San Francisco where he resides with his wife, Lynda Smith Cowan.

Dr. Cowan sees patients at his office in San Francisco and does long-distance consultations by telephone. He also gives lectures and presentations across the country.

Praise for
The Nourishing Traditions
Book of Baby & Child Care

The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care will be a cherished reference for many generations to come. Carefully referenced and thoughtfully presented, this important work intelligently weaves traditional wisdom with modern treatments, providing precise instructions useful to parents and practitioners alike. I will recommend that all of my patients read it from cover to cover.

Lindy Woodard, MD

Pediatric Alternatives

Mill Valley, California

I remember so clearly standing in front of the pregnancy and child care section at the bookstore when my husband and I first decided to start a family, trying to figure out which books to buy. My joy and excitement were tempered by confusion and dismay over the excess of conflicting advice. The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care is a germane and much needed resource for empowering parents with the necessary instruction to raise a healthy, well balanced child amid the scores of seriously flawed baby and child care books available today.

Sarah Pope

The Healthy Home Economist

I warmly recommend The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby and Child Care . The authors share not only a deep knowledge about food and its value for health, but are also parents and grandparents with great love for children. We live in a world full of misinformation about food and health, the truth is often hard to find. This is one of the true and reliable sources of information for parents on how to bring up healthy children.

Natasha Campbell-McBride, MD

Author of The Gut & Psychology Syndrome

An indispensable guide to pregnancy, childbirth and child rearing, informed by common sense, ancestral wisdom and sound science. If every couple read this book prior to becoming pregnant, and followed its nourishing and empowering advice, the future of health care would be profoundly and positively changed.

Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD

Vice President, The Weston A. Price Foundation

Author of The Whole Soy Story:

The Dark Side of Americas Favorite Health Food

Too often in our modern society we expect to do things right by starting from scratch and assembling our knowledge piecemeal using the scientific method. In The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care , the authors show how we have done just that with the art of child rearing, leaving the accumulated wisdom of the ages by the wayside. In the grand tradition of Weston Price, Fallon Morell and Cowan use modern science to explore the wisdom of ancient tradition, providing a firm foundation for a nutritional approach that will nourish both mother and child, allowing each to grasp hold of the gift of radiant and vibrant health.

Chris Masterjohn, PhD

Author of The Daily Lipid at

Cholesterol-And-Health.Com

THE NOURISHING TRADITIONS BOOK OF BABY & CHILD CARE

Sally Fallon Morell
Thomas S. Cowan, MD

Cover Design by Kim Waters Murray

Copyright 2013 Sally Fallon Morell and Thomas S. Cowan, MD. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

A Note to the Reader: The ideas and suggestions contained in this book are not intended as a substitute for appropriate care of a licensed health care practitioner.

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To Tomorrows Children

This book is the result of many minds and much good advice.

Our sincerest thanks go to our four readers: Lindy Woodard, MD, of Pediatric Alternatives in Mill Valley, California, who gave us the invaluable insights of a holistic pediatrician; Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN, practicing nutritionist who sees the unhealthy offspring of vegetarians and those following a standard American diet and provided us with guidelines to pre-conceptual detoxification, along with many other helpful suggestions; Sarah Pope, MGA, the Healthy Home Economist, who shared her experience and wisdom on holistic child care; and, finally, Sarah Fallon, who gave us the insights and example of a young mother on pregnancy, birth and child rearing.

We are indebted to Chris Masterjohn for his research on the fat-soluble activators and the importance of nutrient-dense diets for pregnant women and growing children; some of his inquiries were carried out specifically for this book. Likewise, we are grateful to Jan Allbritton for her contributions on the feeding of babies and growing children. The work of Natasha-Campbell McBride, MD, infuses this book and has provided true healing to thousands of children afflicted with digestive, behavior and learning disorders.

Katherine Czapp did a masterful job with proofreadingfar more than catching little errors, but wise advice on many aspects of the manuscript. Thanks also to Leonard Rosenbaum for his expert indexing services.