I’d rather see people adopt religious views that encourage adaptation to place and healthy interaction with other people… but Christianity at its best at least does the latter.

I guess I’m getting a little bit Darwinist about the whole raising kids as vegan thing. Don’t get me wrong, I will guilt-trip the parents about it any chance I get–that’s one of the acceptable (to me) forms of pressure, the peer-group guilt-trip. But sometimes the only way people will learn is by doing. And given the already-strained-to-the-limits foster care system and the fact that so many kids age out of that system without finding a new permanent family, since so few adopters will bother with older kids, if the child’s not in danger of immediate damage, maiming or death I’m inclined to leave them with their parents, even mediocre or dietarily-deluded ones. I have to realize that I cannot save everyone… and that government-run efforts to do that have on the whole failed miserably. I’m not as allergic to government as a lot of low-carbers are, but I still have to acknowledge the obvious.

I feel the same way about religion though. I didn’t think it should be forced on my daughter, despite the pressure from my family. I did not have her baptized when she was born. I wanted her to grow up and decide what would be her own truth. It caused my parents a lot of heartache but I didn’t regret my decision. And as an adult, my daughter tells me this was beneficial to her.

I would be willing to bet that sipping on a bone broth would heal so many ills. I agree with WAPF. I have the Nourishing Traditions cookbook and use it a lot, omitting only those recipes that call for ingredients I do better without.

Richard Bernstein devoted a full chapter on gastroparesis in his book on diabetes, which seems to be on the rise (my own opinion). Damage to the vagus nerve from blood glucose over 140? So someone with gastroparesis, undiagnosed celiac and eating lots of fiber may just overload their poor stomach when they dump some protein on top of it all.

I know of someone who’s vegetarian (I don’t think she’s vegan but I can’t remember now) and has three boys. Amazingly, two of them have ADHD. No, it’s not their diet, it’s that they have a Ritalin deficiency disease. God that makes me crazy.

I have access to health insurance now but I want to use it as easy access to labs. I want them to test me and see if I’m gluten-intolerant, if I’m hypothyroid, etc. They can tell me whatever they want, nobody says I have to listen to it if it doesn’t seem to be backed by anything empirical. I just need the numbers.

That’s interesting about malabsorption possibly being related to poor meat digestion. I wonder if someone could fix the problem by consuming bone broth on a regular basis. The WAPF folks seem to think that helps. Dr. Pottenger used to recommend bone broth as a gut healer, too.

I listened to a podcast this weekend where the guest speaker was this hyper sounding woman who was hard core vegan. She made her two young sons eat this way too. The word soy popped up constantly. I felt sad for those boys. They need some saturated fat and heme iron. She’s going to really screw them up, physically and probably mentally too.

I posted a comment about it (though it hasn’t been approved yet) and mentioned that it should be the choice of an adult to eat that way, but never should be forced on kids. Stay with an ancestral type diet until the person is old enough to make up their own mind.