WAPF Conference: Day One

I’m finally at a spot with a computer and a trusty internet connection.

The conference is over, but I’m still on vacation and I thought that I would go ahead and post about the exciting things I learned at the conference.  I do want to keep this short, but the subjects I mention are things that you can either ask me about or research further on your own.

Thursday night we attended the Farm-to-Consumer Defense Fund Dinner.  The food was wonderful and served to us in a beautiful setting.  Before our large and substantial dinner, we sampled artisan cheese, kombucha and other delicacies.

It was at this dinner that my friend Cheryl was able to chat with Sally Fallon Morrell, the food activist, speaker, farmer, cheese maker, author of three books: Nourishing Traditions, Eat Fat, Lose Fat, Nourishing Broth, and editor-in-chief of the journal “Wise Traditions.”

On Friday, the first official day of the conference, we were able to choose from a number of interesting topics.  Cheryl chose to go to the lectures by Dr. Natasha Campbell – McBride, Ph.D, M.D. on the GAPS diet, which heals the gut.  Many do not realize that, apart from God’s Care, the gut is the foundation of our health.

I chose to go to a series of lectures by Stephanie Seniff, Ph.D., who works at M.I.T. Her topics were quite varied, and covered the “Inhibition of Vitamin and Mineral Uptake and Metabolism” and “Suppression of the Excretion of Dangerous Compounds” by toxins in our food and environment.  Some of these toxins include statins, acetaminophen and glyphosate, a popular and widely-used herbicide.

We had an amazing lunch and dinner. We met lots of other real-food foodies and enjoyed hearing their experiences with real food!  We had a great time sampling traditional food items and speaking with the vendors who made them.

In the evening, we went to another lecture about the gut.  (See a pattern here?)

Then, it was off to bed!  We needed to rest up for another day of lectures and fun!