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When I first learned about the Foundation’s infor­mation and diet twenty years ago, I was very skeptical. I had conventional university training as a nutritionist. I couldn’t imagine the Weston A. Price Foundation’s dietary philosophy as being right. However, I just kept reading and eventually realized—it is right. One thing I learned was that I needed a lot more vitamin A in my diet. I needed other things as well, but I think vitamin A was one of the big pieces I was missing. Why do we— myself and the Foundation—care so much about a single vitamin?

Vitamin A is necessary for almost every single function in the body. According to J. Timoneda, a researcher in the field of vitamin A, it is the most multifunctional vitamin in the human being.¹ Commentators claim that deficiencies are rare in developed nations, but this is not true. Moreover, vitamin A is one of the most difficult nutrients to absorb and utilize. And Americans, or so-called “modern” people, don’t eat the best food sources anymore. Unfortunately, in my observations, most health care experts don’t think vitamin A deficiency is a problem and would prefer their patients not take any vitamin A nor consume any foods that are rich in it.

In his book Nutrition and Physical De­generation, Dr. Weston A. Price emphasized the importance of vitamin A, noting that the diets of traditional healthy people he observed contained ten times more vitamin A than those of people he saw in the United States.

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