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Doctors could show it on a laptop in He also pointed out that a mature family.
their waiting rooms. buck normally weighs between one What got me thinking about this is
Nourishing Our Children is about hundred forty and two hundred pounds. all the people I run into that claim to be
real, nourishing food for our children In these communities he sometimes sees “perfectly healthy” and “do all the right
and grandchildren, for all children, and them around ninety pounds, with large things.” But when I dig a little deeper, I
for ourselves! It is well-paced, colorful, bellies and emaciated bodies. see numerous health problems that are
positive and very informative. To order Alan J. Stangle, DC all related to diet.
it, visit www.nourishingourchildren.org. Allentown, Pennsylvania Paul Sonntag Ericson
Bari Caine Mineral Point, Wisconsin
Reno, Nevada Another factor causing physical degen-
eration in the deer could be pesticides RAW MILK AND LYME DISEASE
SIGNS FROM NATURE and other chemicals used on lawns and The spreading epidemic of Lyme
I was talking to one of my patients, gardens. disease and the knowledge that Lyme
who is a conservation officer. He told me bacteria can be transmitted from mother
about a doe living in a gated community A HEALTH QUESTIONNAIRE to child via her breast milk have made
that was having a difficult birth. One Have you ever thought of develop- me wonder about raw cow’s milk. Do
of the residents saw a deer with a fawn ing a worksheet so that people can self- you know of any documented data re-
hanging out of the birth canal for several assess their family’s health? If people garding the presence of Lyme bacteria
hours. They see this problem around could tally up all the damage from a in the milk of infected cows? Assuming
housing developments and suspect it Standard American Diet, they may real- this transfer occurs, is it known whether
comes from a high carbohydrate diet or ize the harm that has been done and be the beneficial bacteria in the raw milk
lack of exercise. He said the fawns get more motivated to switch to a WAPF can either out-compete or kill Lyme
stuck in the birth canals more frequently diet. bacteria?
in these gated communities than in the Questions could include the fol- Annette Bodley
wild. lowing: count how many people in the Ashburnhan, Massachusetts
I immediately thought about the family have one or more cavities; count
findings of Weston Price and wondered how many people have had or need Reply from Ted Beals, MD, expert on
whether the diet of the deer was different braces; count how many people breathe raw milk safety: Like many of these
inside these communities. He said these through their mouth, especially at night; questions, it depends. It might be theo-
deer are fed frequently by the residents, count how many infections requiring retically possible that the spirochete
who don’t realize what a deer’s healthy antibiotics occur in your family every might be able to get into the milk from
diet consists of. People give the corn, year; count how many times people get some source, either directly from the
cheese doodles, bread and table scraps. a cold or flu every year; count how many blood stream of the cow or from con-
Apparently the skeletal structures of chronic diseases, such as asthma, diabe- tamination. However, even if it got into
these deer are being altered, and they tes, heart disease and cancer, are present the milk, it is unlikely to survive. And
are developing narrowed pelvic open- in your family; count how many people finally, it is highly unlikely that this
ings due to their modern diets, just as have mental or behavioral problems, organism would survive and by some
humans have. such as ADHD or autism; count how mechanism that it doesn’t normally
many people in the family suffer from use, attach itself to the gastrointestinal
Gifts and bequests to the allergies; count how many miscarriages lining cells and actually penetrate into
Weston A. Price Foundation have occurred; count how many family the person’s blood stream. There is a
will help ensure the gift of good health members have trouble getting pregnant. big difference between “might” (pos-
to future generations. The lower the score, the healthier the sible theoretically) and “actual.” I am
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