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In reply to the discussion: Babies Are Getting Brain Bleeds—Are Vaccine Fears to Blame? [View all]BrotherIvan
(9,126 posts)There is plenty of testing to show that our food is much less nutritious than it used to be due to soil depletion and improper farming. I am not saying that multivitamins are the answer, but so many on here discount nutrition as the key to health. In this case, newborns have a severe deficiency that requires a concentrated dose. There is also neurological complications due to a lack of B12 that also requires a series of shots. But we keep putting bandaids on the fact that we do not receive the adequate nutrition to create optimum health.
Traditionally, women and men of child bearing age were given special diets so they could produce healthy offspring. In Peru, mountain tribes would trek hundreds of miles to the sea to get fish eggs and sea vegetables for couples to enhance fertility, make a healthy baby, and ease childbirth. That is also the case in some Pacific island areas where tribes would have a cease fire so land-locked peoples could go to the sea to get important foodstuffs. They had very firm rules about spacing of children as well so the parents could replenish their nutritional stores to create another healthy baby. We have totally lost this practice.
We really too heavily on extreme band aids and do not encourage health on a daily basis. It is a smouldering epidemic in this country. It seems too old fashioned to be appreciated. But we, as all other living things on this planet, have certain requirements for health that our current food landscape does not provide. Subclinical deficiencies over a lifetime could be why we are seeing skyrocketing chronic illness.