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In reply to the discussion: Babies Are Getting Brain Bleeds—Are Vaccine Fears to Blame? [View all]jeff47
(26,549 posts)32. This isn't solvable by nutrition.
Traditionally, women and men of child bearing age were given special diets so they could produce healthy offspring.
The problem at hand is a foible of our evolution. Our offspring don't get much vitamin K from the placenta or breast milk. Even if mom gets lots of vitamin K.
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.
You can't pick a few activities from a few cultures and declare them as better. First, there's thousands of successful cultures that were different. Additionally, a lot of times these cultures did such things to make up for a massive nutritional deficiency caused by not being able to get food from anywhere. We can get food from anywhere.
Second, there's this thing called "science". We can, and have, studied what happens if kids are born close together. Or what diet elements are beneficial. Also, if your theories were correct, life expectancy would not have gone up. Including expectancy from adulthood.
There's a massive tendency to declare the old ways superior by only looking at a small window of the society that practiced the old ways.
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If parents take a reputable birthing class, read a reputable book, or have a thorough gynecologist..
HuckleB
Jul 2014
#10
There doesn't appear to be concerns of that type on the literature that I can find.
HuckleB
Jul 2014
#28
The problem with that is you negate everything else he has done when you do that.
cui bono
Jul 2014
#45
Actually, RFK, Jr. is the one negating other work he did that might be valuable.
HuckleB
Jul 2014
#47
That's a shame, but it does not negate his other work. To dismiss it because of this is to abandon
cui bono
Jul 2014
#49
But that's not what you are doing. You said "no argument here" to calling him an "asshat".
cui bono
Jul 2014
#56