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Letters

Let’s see, how can a diet devoid of B who bring raw milk in from the coun- photo of the white drink in the baggie)
vitamins cause mass murders? Well, tryside. They are depicted in pictur- which is a version of horchata (a drink
when you look into a textbook of human esque postcards, and you still see them made from rice in Mexico) made with
physiology, you will find that BCDS in with the cans of milk on carts pulled by jicaro seeds (a strange tree only found
young people most often starts out as donkeys. My teacher said she is sure in Mexico and Central America, with
depression. It can quickly worsen to they water the milk down a lot and she these green “cannonball” fruits that
nervousness, irritability, anxiety, men- won’t buy it from them. She also says almost nothing living near it except
tal fatigue, severe depression, manic that people boil it at home, so I think humans and horses can crack open,
depression, paranoiac thinking and the message they get is to pasteurize it https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cres-
an overwhelming fear that something themselves. She also said they come in centia_alata). I am not sure how many
horrible is about to happen. But worse, the morning and if you don’t use the of these beverages are made in truly
over time it can cause morbid fears, rage milk by the time it’s hot, it’s spoiled. traditional ways. (See photos, page 5.)
and hostility. I assume she is talking about homes Jill Nienhiser
Does this sound like Connecticut, that don’t have refrigeration, or maybe Managua, Nicaragua
the movie theater in Colorado, Oregon, the tradition is that you get it at room
Florida and others? Yes, it does! And temperature and use it that morning. THE NEED FOR SUN
most experts, including medical ex- You can buy all kinds of things I saw the letter to the editor in
perts, parents, neurologists and more from these carts. There is a guy who the last journal (Winter, 2017), about
are completely unaware of the emo- juices oranges from a cart he bikes getting vitamin D from the sun, in
tional changes going on in the brains of around with. He offers you ice and response to Dr. Seneff’s article. The
adolescents thanks to the SAD and the sugar if you want, and pours the juice writer was wondering what amount of
faulty brain chemistry brought about into a baggie, and then inserts a straw sun exposure is safe and made some of
by BCDS—yes, completely unaware! and ties the baggie around it. his own calculations to help determine
Too often they are educated out of I also got some chicha from an- that. I have a few reservations about the
the brains they were born with or are other who had a variety of juices in bag- writer’s recommendations.
brainwashed by the pharmaceutical gies (not squeezed fresh in that moment, In addition to some of WAPF’s
industry that continues to pump more just ready to go), which I understood articles, I’ve read some of Dr. Mercola’s
and more poison into our kids and ado- had corn (maiz) in it but not sure what articles about vitamin D from the sun.
lescents. Most of the time they simply else. I asked about the pink color and He gives advice for safely spending
cannot believe that BCDS can produce he said, I think, vanilla, which wouldn’t time in the sun and how much time is
these brain changes, or that B vitamins give it a pink color. I pressed and he adequate. He also talks about the many
can help treat the brain by addressing said strawberry, but it didn’t much taste health benefits of (safe) sun exposure,
the underlying cause of emotional like it. I suspect red food coloring (after including for the eyes and for the reduc-
problems. having googled chicha and seeing the tion of stress, among many other things.
Dr. Bruce West many types of recipes that get called The biggest thing I noticed in
Monterey, California chicha throughout Central and South the letter was the recommendation to
America). avoid mid-day sun, not necessarily
LECHEROS Finally, I’ve also tried pinolillo, completely, but to get more of our sun
I am taking Spanish lessons with which is ground toasted corn and exposure in order to absorb vitamin D
a private tutor here in Nicaragua who ground cacao (so it’s sludgy) mixed closer to 10 AM and 3 PM, when the
runs a bakery, and have been so disap- with milk or water and sugar—so popu- sun is at a thirty-degree angle or so in
pointed to find only UHT milk in the lar the Nicaraguans call themselves the sky. According to Dr. Mercola, we
stores. There are people called lecheros pinolleros—and semilla de jicaro (the can’t synthesize vitamin D from the sun

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