Ignorance is not Bliss

Ok, I’m reading too many health books lately but one leads to another. My latest is called "Disease Proof Your Child". Here are a few things I learned:

*A baby’s body is designed to breastfeed until age 2. They can absorb the antibodies for their fragile immune systems from mother’s milk up till that age.

*An adult’s DNA is wound up tight like a rubber band ball, but a child’s DNA is unwound and loose because it is still producing a lot of cells. Therefore it is very susceptible to damage.

*It can take 30-40 years for damage and disease to show up. Victims from the Hiroshima bomb did not come down with radiation cancer for 45 years! This means what you feed and expose your child to now (pesticides, hormones, antibiotics) very well might affect if they get cancer, heart disease, or diabetes when they are adults.

*Various studies indicate the more animal products in the diet, the greater the cancer occurrence, especially breast cancer and prostate. But the more fruit and vegetables in the diet, the less cancer they found.

*In our modern world vegetarians do not get enough vitamin B12, however, there is plenty of B12 in the bugs, bacteria and dirt that grows on nuts, seeds, grains, & plants. They just get washed off. So if you know where your food comes from, maybe we shouldn’t wash it so much. Papa says organic means buggy. I guess we really need those bugs after all.