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health providers instead of seeking to some, real food, drinking a gallon of I grew up on a farm in Argentina.
misinform and scare your readers. raw milk a day for the family. After My mother was a petite woman, under
Name Withheld moving to town, I have missed that life five feet tall, who had fifteen children,
tremendously so I have always been in all of them healthy. They were born at
Diseases like smallpox were eradicated search of raw milk, right from the cow, home with the help of a midwife.
by sanitation measures, and polio is just like we had at home. As most of We lived mostly on beef—usually
likely caused by the pesticide DDT. As you probably know, that’s not easy to as a stew cooked in a cast iron cauldron
you state, the side effects of vaccines are find. Finally, I found a resource and I over a big fire. Everything went into that
listed in the vaccine FAQ sheets, but few am grateful every day. stew—meat, organ meats, bones, feet,
doctors read these to their patients or Fast forward to September 2012 beans and vegetables. Blood went into
are even prepared to have a discussion (two years after the 2010 bone den- sausage. In fact we never ate anything
about the subject. Meanwhile, more and sity test). My doctor suggested I get raw, everything was cooked. The ex-
more children suffer the adverse effects re-tested. I remember thinking, “That’s ception to that was raw milk, of course,
of vaccines, especially of so many vac- a good idea―I wonder whether the raw which we all had throughout our grow-
cines, which introduce toxins like alumi- milk will make a difference?” I don’t ing years. For bread we had dough fried
num, mercury, formaldehyde and MSG think I really thought it would, I was in lard. We also had plenty of eggs. We
into the bloodstream. Our philosophy is just curious. ate chicken, duck and pork on special
to protect our children with good nutri- Well, lo and behold, my test results occasions.
tion, not with toxic vaccines. came back with the statement: “Since Of course, my mother breastfed all
7/12/2010 there has been a significant of us. One custom in Argentina was for
OSTEOPENIA REVERSED increase in bone density in the lumbar a new mother to stay in bed and rest for
In July of 2010, I had a bone density spine (2.8 percent).” forty days after the birth. The midwife
test done. In the past when the doctors I was amazed and so excited―I stayed at the house for two months, mak-
checked my bones, I had always come couldn’t wait to see my doctor again. ing chicken soup and other nourishing
out with good density. Because of this, When she read my report, she couldn’t foods. She took care of all the other
I didn’t worry about bones breaking, believe it. She said she had never seen children so my mother could rest. Then
even though I am in my sixties. It was a osteopenia reversed. I asked her if she when she left, we other children helped
concern of mine because I have an aunt wanted to know what I was doing dif- with the child care and child minding.
who has osteoporosis, and I seem to ferently? She said she did and I told her, A new baby was put in a basket
follow after her in many ways. She has “The only thing I have changed is that to sleep in my parents’ room. When
fallen and broken some of her bones. I’m drinking raw milk.” She looked at the baby was old enough to sit up, that
So imagine my surprise when my me strangely and said, “Aren’t you afraid signaled the time for the baby to move
2010 test came back with a diagnosis if it isn’t pasteurized?” I replied, “No, out of my parents’ room and in with the
of osteopenia, the start of osteoporosis. actually I’m more afraid of pasteurized.” other children.
I was very concerned but as life goes, She replied, “Well, keep doing what An important thing for baby was
I kind of forgot about it. At the time I you’re doing.” I know I had to be the anise tea, for digestion and colic. We
was drinking store-bought, pasteurized, first patient that had told her that. collected the anise ourselves and made
homogenized milk. So my raw milk is gold to me. I love the tea faithfully for the new baby.
In the 70s and 80s, I lived on an the taste and I love the results! My father lived to age eighty-seven
acreage with my family and we had Elaine Andrews and my mother lived to age ninety.
our own milk cow (along with beef, Marion, Iowa Ina Russell
chickens, hogs, turkeys and rabbits). I Silver Spring, Maryland
was raised five kids on good, whole- GROWING UP IN ARGENTINA POWERED BY RAW MILK
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