Below is the actual email I received from Weston A Price Foundation, which I am a member and former Chapter Leader. It is long. It is about how Whole Foods is promoting a unhealthy vegetarian agenda. Scroll down to read the entire e-mail.
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HERE’S THE WESTON A. PRICE E-MAIL ABOUT WHOLE FOODS:
Dear Members,
The Weston A. Price Foundation has issued the following press release about the “Health Starts Here”
low-fat, mostly vegetarian marketing program at Whole Foods Markets.
Please feel free to distribute this press release to your local media. In addition, you can
contact Whole Foods at customer.questions@wholefoods.com to share your experiences
with low-fat versus traditional high-fat diets.
Sincerely,
Sally Fallon Morell, President
WHOLE FOODS PROMOTES MILITANT VEGETARIAN AGENDA
Has the Upscale Market Outlived Its Usefulness?
WASHINGTON, DC. February 3, 2010: Whole Foods Markets has launched a nationwide
“Health Starts Here” marketing scheme that endorses a low-fat, vegetarian diet, with promises
that the diet will “improve health easily and naturally.” The plan promotes the books and private
business ventures of Joel Fuhrman, MD, and Rip Esselstyn, both of whom worked with
Whole Foods to formulate the new guidelines. Customers now receive a pamphlet urging
them to adopt a low-fat, plant-based diet and to cut back or completely eliminate animal foods.
Many Whole Foods stores no longer sell books advocating consumption of meat, eggs and dairy
products.
The plan will feature new Aggregate Nutrient Density Index (ANDI) labels for foods in the store;
the index is designed to make plant foods to appear “nutrient dense” by favoring various
phytonutrients in plants and ignoring many vitamins and minerals essential to health.
“Whole Foods has stacked the deck against animal foods by choosing ANDI parameters
that do not include a host of key nutrients, such as vitamins A, D and K, DHA,
EPA arachidonic acid, taurine, iodine, biotin, pantothenic acid, and vital minerals
like sodium, chloride, potassium, sulfur, phosphorus, copper, manganese, boron,
molybdenum and chromium,” says Sally Fallon Morell, president of the
Weston A. Price Foundation. “Many of the phytochemicals that Fuhrman includes
in the index he developed for Whole Foods play no essential role in the body and
may even be harmful.”
“Animal foods like meat, liver, butter, whole milk and eggs contain ten to one hundred
times more vitamins and minerals than plant foods,” says Fallon Morell. “Plant foods
add variety and interest to the human diet but in most circumstances do not qualify
as ‘nutrient-dense’ foods.”
“For years before becoming deathly ill, I followed the dietary suggestions in the
Whole Foods plan,” said Kathryne Pirtle, author of Performance without Pain.
“I ate large amounts of organic salads, vegetables and fruits, lots of whole grains,
only a little meat and no animal fat. I had chronic pain for twenty-five years on this diet,
then acid reflux, then a serious inflammation in my spine followed by chronic diarrhea.
Without switching to nutrient-dense animal foods, including eggs, butter and whole
dairy products, not only would I have lost my national career as a performing artist,
I would have died at forty-five years old! I am not alone in this story of ill health from
a low-fat, plant-based diet, which does not supply a person with enough nutrients to be
healthy and can be very damaging to the intestinal tract.”
“Consumers can send a message about Whole Foods’ misinformed scheme by
voting with their feet,” says Fallon Morell. “Most major grocery store chains now
carry basic organic staples and a larger array of organic fruits and vegetables than
Whole Foods markets. And citizens should purchase seasonal produce and their
meat, eggs and dairy products directly from farmers engaged in non-toxic and
grass-based farming. It’s not appropriate for Whole Foods to promote a scheme that
has no scientific basis and that bulldozes their customers towards the higher profit
items in their stores.” The local chapters of the Weston A. Price Foundation help consumers
connect with farmers raising animal foods in humane, healthy and ecologically friendly fashion.
“The growing emphasis on plant-based diets deficient in animal protein also serves to
promote soy foods as both meat and dairy substitutes,” says Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN,
author of The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America’s Favorite Health Food.
“Soy is not only one of the top eight allergens but has been linked in more than sixty
years of studies to malnutrition, digestive distress, thyroid dysfunction, reproductive
disorders including infertility, and even cancer, especially breast cancer.”
“Low-fat patients are my most unhealthy patients,” says John P. Salerno, MD,
a board certified family physician from New York City. “The reason we are
spiraling into diabetes and obesity is because of the low-fat concept developed
by the U.S government decades ago. Low-fat diets have a low nutrient base, and
phytonutrients in vegetables cannot be properly absorbed without fat.”
Fallon Morell cites recent studies from Europe showing that low-fat diets
promote weight gain in both children and adults, and also contribute to
infertility. A meta-analysis published January, 2010 in the American Journal
of Clinical Nutrition found no significant evidence that saturated fat consumption
is associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease.
“Whole Foods CEO John Mackay has stated that eating animal fats amounts to
an addiction. But in fact, animal fats are essential for good health,” says
Fallon Morell. “The nutrients in animal fats, such as vitamins A, D and K,
arachidonic acid, DHA, choline, cholesterol and saturated fat, are critical
for brain function. In the misguided war against cholesterol and saturated
fat, we have created an epidemic of learning disorders in the young and
mental decline in the elderly.”
“Perhaps the vegetarian diet has affected the thinking powers of
Whole Foods management,” says Fallon Morell. “It’s time for the
stockholders to insist on leadership devoted to increasing customer
base, not promoting a personal vegetarian agenda.”
Comments about the Whole Foods Health Starts Here scheme can be
emailed to customer.questions@wholefoods.com.
The Weston A. Price Foundation is a 501C3 nutrition education foundation with
the mission of disseminating accurate, science-based information on diet and health.
Named after nutrition pioneer Weston A. Price, DDS, author of the book,
Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, the Washington, DC-based Foundation
publishes a quarterly journal for over 12,000 members, supports 400 local chapters
worldwide and hosts a yearly conference.
The Foundation headquarters phone number is (202) 363-4394, westonaprice.org, info@westonaprice.org.
CONTACT
Kimberly Hartke, Publicist, the Weston A. Price Foundation
703-860-2711, 703-675-5557 press@westonaprice.org