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About Us

North Texas Traditional Living is a resource to help fellow North Texans find locally grown meat, eggs, dairy products and produce. We work towards the return of nutrient-dense foods to American tables. We support traditional lifestyles. However, we do not sell these foods. Instead, we refer you to good people in the area who do.  We do not offer medical or nutritional advice, but may be able to refer you to fine practitioners who do. We support the work of Dr. Price and others who have found that diet and other factors can have a profound impact on the health of entire families.

Looking for local food?

Please visit the Farms section for local growers of nutrient dense food. That means animals raised on their proper diet and lifestyle using all natural and hopefully organic methods. For information on real milk in Texas, see the TX Milk Law page.

Who are/were the Traditional Living Pioneers?

Dr. Weston A. Price (1870-1948), a Cleveland dentist, has been called the "Charles Darwin of Nutrition." In his search for the causes of dental decay and physical degeneration that he observed in his dental practice, he turned from test tubes and microscopes to unstudied evidence among human beings. Dr. Price sought the factors responsible for fine teeth among the people who had them- the isolated "primitives." The world became his laboratory. As he traveled, his findings led him to the belief that dental caries and deformed dental arches resulting in crowded, crooked teeth and unattractive appearance were merely a sign of physical degeneration, resulting from what he had suspected-nutritional deficiencies.

As yet I have not found a single group ... which was building and maintaining excellent bodies by living entirely on plant foods.
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, by Weston A. Price, DDS

Price traveled the world over in order to study isolated human groups, including sequestered villages in Switzerland, Gaelic communities in the Outer Hebrides, Eskimos and Indians of North America, Melanesian and Polynesian South Sea Islanders, African tribes, Australian Aborigines, New Zealand Maori and the Indians of South America. Wherever he went, Dr. Price found that beautiful straight teeth, freedom from decay, stalwart bodies, resistance to disease and fine characters were typical of primitives on their traditional diets, rich in essential food factors.

The discoveries and conclusion of Dr. Price are presented in his classic book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration. The book contains striking photographs of handsome, healthy primitives and illustrates in an unforgettable way the physical degeneration that occurs when human groups abandon nourishing traditional diets and lifestyles in favor of modern convenience foods.

Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1879 -1962) spent years with the Eskimos, learning their ways of living. Read his own words below, recorded in the introduction to an article entitled "Adventures in Diet," which was published by Harper's Monthly Magazine, November 1935. The entire 3 part series may be found here: Adventures in Diet, Part 1.

"In 1906 I went to the Arctic with the food tastes and beliefs of the average American. By 1918, after eleven years as an Eskimo among Eskimos, I had learned things which caused me to shed most of those beliefs. Ten years later I began to realize that what I had learned was going to influence materially the sciences of medicine and dietetics. However, what finally impressed the scientists and converted many during the last two or three years, was a series of confirmatory experiments upon myself and a colleague performed at Bellevue Hospital, New York City, under the supervision of a committee representing several universities and other organizations.

"Not so long ago the following dietetic beliefs were common: To be healthy you need a varied diet, composed of elements from both the animal and vegetable kingdoms. You got tired of and eventually felt a revulsion against things if you had to eat them often. This latter belief was supported by stories of people who through force of circumstances had been compelled, for instance, to live for two weeks on sardines and crackers and who, according to the stories, had sworn that so long as they lived they never would touch sardines again. The Southerners had it that nobody can eat a quail a day for thirty days.

"There were subsidiary dietetic views. It was desirable to eat fruits and vegetables, including nuts and coarse grains. The less meat you ate the better for you. If you ate a good deal of it, you would develop rheumatism, hardening of the arteries, and high blood pressure, with a tendency to breakdown of the kidneys - in short, premature old age. An extreme variant had it that you would live more healthy, happily, and longer if you became a vegetarian."