Weston A Price/Sally Fallon/Nourishing Traditions?

Is anyone familiar with any of the above? A friend of mine who has a daughter with multiple allergies is really into this and it has made a big difference in her daughter's health.

A couple links:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weston_A._Price_Foundation#Dietary_recommendations

http://www.westonaprice.org/splash_2.htm

Like many things, the extreme version of this turns me off. But I am intrigued by some of the general principles.

I know some low carbers who follow NT loosely or adopt some of the things (like fermented milk) to their plans.  If what I am doing right now doesn't work for me, I might try NT.  

I've heard some people with gluten sensitivities/coeliac disease have not been able to eat the bread that they claim should deal with the lectin problems.  I've actually not heard of someone with coeliac disease who has been able to eat that bread, but that doesn't mean there aren't people who can eat it without problems.

I think there's a bit of a disagreement about whether pastoral societies were/are all that healthy.  That's sort of what most people who follow NT aspire to eat like. Weston Price also studied people who ate pre-herding diets, and I can give you information on the group of diets that have spawned from that and similar research.  It has a tendency to be more extreme, but it eliminates most of the problematic lectins.  Let me know and I will PM you some links.

Yes, interested... though likely more academically than practically!

I do believe in happy mediums so I'm curious to do some more research on this and pull what I want from it all. There's no celiac here though there may be gluten intolerance. Right now we're eliminating dairy to see if DS is allergic to it. There is some evidence that people allergic to dairy can have raw milk - or so I've read. If we do determine he's better off without commercial dairy, we may try him on raw milk products to see how he does...as the high calories in milk products are a real bonus for him. Fortunately, we aren't dealing with life-threatening allergies so we can afford to play around a little bit.

Before I forget, if you plan on getting the NT cookbook, I'd suggest you borrow it first. It seems to be a very love it or hate it sort of thing, although people who love it seem to be able to use it even when they don't use NT.

Also, lots of "mother"/parenting forums have large NT adherents.