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Caustic Commentary

2018, a ruling from federal Judge Edward M. Chen allowed THE PROPAGANDA CONTINUES
FAN to submit evidence published after the date of their peti- According to Harvard scientists, “at least one-third of early
tion, November 2016. The study is an important one since it deaths could be prevented if everyone moved to a vegetarian
was funded by three U.S. agencies: the National Institutes of diet.” Dr. Neal Barnard, president of the Committee for [Ir]
Health, the National Institute of Environmental Health Sci- Responsible Medicine, claims that this is an underestimate.
ences and the EPA. Researchers followed over three hundred “I think people imagine that a healthy diet has only a modest
mother-child pairs in Mexico City for a twelve-year period. effect and a vegetarian diet might help you lose a little bit
They found a strong relationship between the mothers' expo- of weight. But when these diets are properly constructed,
sure to fluoride, as measured in their urine, and lowered IQ I think they are enormously powerful. A lowfat vegan diet
in their offspring at age four and again at six to twelve years is better than any other diet I have ever seen for improving
of age. The urine levels of the pregnant women in the study diabetes. With regards to inflammatory diseases like rheu-
were the same as those found in pregnant women in the U.S. matoid arthritis, we are seeing tremendous potential there
At these levels, the authors reported a loss of six IQ points. too. Partly because of things we are avoiding like cholesterol,
To donate to FAN's court case, visit fluoridealert.org. but also because of the magical things that are in vegetables
and fruits.” These meat-demonizing folks never mention the
HPV VACCINE AND INCREASED CERVICAL CANCER 2014 study which found that vegetarians have more cancer,
In 2006, when the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine more allergies, more mental illness, need more health care,
was introduced in the U.S., cervical cancer rates had been in have a poorer quality of life and suffer from more tooth
steady decline over several decades. Trends were similar in decay (PLOS One, February 7, 2014).
Europe, including Scandinavia. Sweden stood out as having
the lowest levels of cervical cancer. However, in 2017, Swe- WE ARE NOT MAKING THIS UP
den's Center for Cervical Cancer Prevention reported that the An article on soybean checkoff research in the February 27,
incidence of invasive cervical cancer was climbing, with a 2018 issue of the Delmarva Farmer describes the follow-
particularly steep increase between 2013 and 2015. In a study ing research project at Penn State University: “Enhancing
published in The Indian Journal of Medical Ethics (April 30, Rumen By-Pass of Extruded Soybean Meal Protein: The
2018), an independent Swedish researcher (publishing under research will evaluate the rumen by-pass value of soybean
a pseudonym) proposed that the HPV vaccine may be caus- meal extruded at different temperatures. This project builds
ing rather than preventing cervical cancer. The researcher on previous research that demonstrated increased dry mat-
noted that by 2012-2013, most young girls in Sweden had ter intake, and consequently increased milk yield, in dairy
been vaccinated, and it is this age group most afflicted by cows fed diets in which solvent-extracted soybean meal was
the resurgence of cervical cancer. Said the researcher: “The substituted with extruded soybean meal.”
increased incidence among young females, the possibil-
ity of virus reactivation after vaccination, the increase in
premalignant cell changes shown by the FDA for women
who were already exposed to oncogenic [tumor-inducing] FOR SCIENTISTS AND LAY READERS
HPV types and the time relationship between the start of Please note that the mission of the Weston A. Price
vaccination and the increase in cervical cancer in Sweden Foundation is to provide important information about diet
could support the view that the HPV vaccine is caus[ing] an and health to both scientists and the lay public. For this rea-
son, some of the articles in Wise Traditions are necessarily
increase in invasive cervical cancer instead of preventing technical. It is very important for us to describe the science
it among already infected females.” Studies have already that supports the legitimacy of our dietary principles. In
noted that the HPV vaccine has an adverse event rate of one articles aimed at scientists and practitioners, we provide a
in fifteen, and a death rate among the vaccinated (fourteen summary of the main points and also put the most techni-
per ten thousand) that far exceeds the risk of dying from cal information in sidebars. These articles are balanced by
cervical cancer. (worldmercuryproject.org, May 15, 2018.) others that provide practical advice to our lay readers.

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