The Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation (PPNF) is a U.S.
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non-profit organization
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established "to teach the public and professionals about foods, lifestyle habits, healing modalities, and environmental practices."
History
Founded in 1952, it was first known as the Santa Barbara Medical Research Foundation and later renamed the Weston A. Price Memorial Foundation, in 1965, after the Canadian researcher
Weston A. Price who emphasized the importance of nutrition for health and dentistry. The other half of the foundation's name is for
Francis M. Pottenger, Jr. whose
study of nutrition in cats sparked interest in a diet high in raw animal products including uncooked meats and unpasteurized dairy. In 1969, after Pottenger's death, the organization became the Price Pottenger Foundation, and then the Price Pottenger Nutrition Foundation in 1972.
PPNF now houses over 10,000 books and publications, including the works of Dr. Royal Lee, Dr. Melvin Page, Dr. Emanuel Cheraskin, Dr. William Albrecht, and others. It owns and protects the copyright to the works by Price and Pottenger, and continues to republish Price's ''Nutrition and Physical Degeneration'' and Pottenger's ''Pottenger's Cats – A Study in Nutrition''. It publishes its own journal, the ''Journal of Health and Healing''.
See also
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Alternative medicine
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Focal infection theory
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Nutrition
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Saturated fat and cardiovascular disease controversy
References
External links
Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation website
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Organizations established in 1999
Health advocacy groups
Agricultural economics
Alternative medicine organizations
Food politics
Medical and health foundations based in the United States
Organic farming organizations
Nutrition organizations
1999 establishments in California