- As I write this I’m packing us up to go to a soccer tournament in Traverse City this weekend, so I don’t have time to polish up another post for you. Hopefully there’s enough here to hold you over ‘til Wednesday, when I expect to have a post ready that I’m really excited to share with you! Don’t get too excited, though, remember I get super geeked over things like saturated fats and stuff.
- Have you ever heard Sean Croxton’s podcasts? He’s full of energy and into Real Food, too! Listen to this episode with Jimmy Moore from the Livin’ La Vida Low Carb blog. Here’s a quick quote I thought I’d share, because I know many wonder about this: “You can have fruit on a low carb diet, it is not a NO carb diet.”
- More reasons why my daughter won’t get this vaccine: Two thousand schoolgirls suffer suspected ill effects from cervical vaccine. (I love the way they talk about “the jab” in this article.)
- Is this guy likable or what? My friend, David, sent me this interesting Yogurt King clip featuring Stonyfield Farm's President, Gary Hirshberg, as he looks back at the growth of his company and discusses the future of the organic food industry. I only wish it was easier to find their whole milk yogurt – mostly I only see their fake low-fat junk.
- Anything you feel like ranting about this week? If so, take it away…
Have a great week!
Dana says
IF the HPV vaxes actually prevented the infection without causing health damage to the girls who get them, then yes, it would make sense for boys to also get the vaccine. Unless teen and early-twentysomething girls have suddenly taken on a lifestyle of which I am not aware, they still get the virus from the boys they’re involved with.
But the vax does cause problems so no, my daughter will not be getting it either. She will instead be getting the lecture about taking good care of herself, not giving it up for just anybody (and if she saves herself til marriage all the better–I’m fairly liberal about sexuality but I’m not stupid), and getting a Pap smear once a year. Even if she lands a good guy, it’s a wart virus. They’re everywhere and really hard to avoid. It only takes one relationship going wrong leaving you with experience you might not have had otherwise to make it more likely you’ll pass on the infection to someone later.
Those deaths from H1N1 seem to at least sometimes be a result of a cytokine cascade, and they tend to happen in people with healthy immune systems. There is no drug that effectively counteracts it–it’s like having high histamine in an allergic reaction, but there are no anti-cytokine drugs that I know of. I read a post on a site recently by someone who claimed that high-cucurmin turmeric stops a cascade in its tracks but what hospital is going to try that? None in the United States, you may be sure. Maybe some in Germany will. I wish we had their attitude about herbal medicine. Anyway, the stuff he’s talking about is sold as supplements; the stuff sold as a curry spice is too low in the active ingredient, especially after how long the typical spice shipment sits in a warehouse before it’s sold. Yecch.
KitchenKop says
Emily,
We often get the Brown Cow whole milk yogurts – not organic, but I read somewhere (I think on a Weston Price shopping guide) that their animals are out on pasture.
Jeanmarie, great strategy! 🙂
Kelly
Jeanmarie says
I just got a call from my mom this morning and at one point she started to urge me to get a flu vaccine. I think she came to regret it… I told her that David and I are concentrating on building our immunity by eating homemade chicken stock, cod liver oil, whole foods, and good fats instead of getting the flu vaccine. I told her I’d looked up the flu death stats in the CDC’s reports myself and that most of those (98.5% by my calculation) were actually pneumonia deaths as they lump them together until you get down to the details buried in the report. I nattered on a bit about vaccines being such a huge moneymaker for Big PhRMA and them causing more deaths and disability than saving lives, and probably didn’t convince her of anything, but I doubt she’ll mention flu shots to me again!
emily says
it drives me crazy that save for the YoBaby products, which are high in refined cane sugar, all Stoneyfeild’sproducts for children are low-fatand also high in sugar. My kids are 6, 7, and 8and are embarrassed to eat the YoBaby products unless they are at home, so sadly I can’t sendthem with any easy, packaged healthy yogurt. I really wish the company would offer full fat, unadulterated yogurt products that appealed to kids. For a treat we enjoy the chocolate underground whole milk yogurts on occaision but they are too big to be eaten at lunch in school.
that article on the hpv vax is so great. very sad for the children affected of course, but great because it is a mainstream, credible news source that is exposing these issues.
thanks for the ideas to chew over!
Motherhen68 says
I saw an article on ABC News a few weeks ago about the Gardasil vax for boys. Great, just what’s needed. Not.
Guess who’s boys will NOT be receiving this vax? Good thing our state still has the philosophical exemption.
Julie says
Did you know that the government forces girls to get the vaccine if they want to become a citizen here. This is not the first article I read but it talks about it too.
https://www.starfl.com/articles/gardasil-19046-immigrants-vaccine.html
Jen says
GlaxoSmithKline, all Big Pharma, CDC, and most physicians motto regarding any reaction (from rash to death) to a vaccination: deny, deny, deny… and if people are still questioning? DENY LOUDER!
“A spokesman for GlaxoSmithKline, which makes Cervarix, said the drug had to undergo rigorous testing, with over 70,000 doses used in trials before a licence was granted.
He said: “The UK medicines safety agency has reviewed all reported adverse events relevant to Cervarix and there is no evidence to suggest that the vaccine carries any long-term side effects.”
Surprise, surprise.
KitchenKop says
I’ll get the Kleenex…
Local Nourishment says
Yeah, I got one for you. Not content to destroy the health of only our girls, “Sept. 9, 2009 — An FDA advisory committee voted to recommend approval of the vaccine Gardasil for males ages 9 to 26 to prevent genital warts.”
https://www.webmd.com/sexual-conditions/hpv-genital-warts/news/20090909/fda-panel-oks-gardasil-for-boys
Sometimes I just want to cry.