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Why We Should Question Information from the USDA

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Why We Should Question Information from the USDA

I am going to provide an example using raw milk.  You may not like milk, you may not think people should drink milk, it may even be against your religion.  None of that is being challenged here.  This writing isn’t meant to convince you to drink milk.  It is just an example of the faulty information being presented by an organization that is supposed to protect us and promote our health.

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Intergenerational Nutrition

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Intergenerational Nutrition

I’m going to begin this brief article with a hypothetical example.  Let’s assume we have a woman who has come to the realization that her diet, which is rich in highly processed foods containing synthetic ingredients and grown in contaminated soils, is causing her health problems.

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Car Accidents and Diabetes: Our Societal Response

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Car Accidents and Diabetes: Our Societal Response

Here is something that I consider to be an interesting inconsistency.  In this country, we take pride in protecting infants and young children while they travel in cars.  Your lifetime odds of being involved in a serious car accident, one that may involve injury or death, is approximately 1 in 3.

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The Importance of Lifeviews

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The Importance of Lifeviews

Let us imagine two children.  Both live in a forested area, near a large mountain, with abundant water resources.  Both children live in dwellings made of wood, and use wood for heat, cooking, and tool manufacture. Both children value the forest.

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When Did Pregnancy Become an Ailment

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When Did Pregnancy Become an Ailment

I question the routine use of a hospital for giving birth.  A hospital is a place where ailing people go for a diagnosis and receive treatment (and sometimes also therapy) for that diagnosis.  When did pregnancy become an ailment?  When did something as natural as giving birth become something that requires medical intervention?

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Toward Supporting Adolescent Emotional Health

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Toward Supporting Adolescent Emotional Health

Many times we (Americans) identify that a problem may exist with some aspect of our society, be it diet, emotional health, interpersonal communication, or whatever.  Then, some expert in the field proposes a fix to the problem, a fix that isn’t always known (through long experience) to resolve the problem and sometimes might even make matters worse.

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Agricultural Lifestyles Affect More Than Physical Health

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Agricultural Lifestyles Affect More Than Physical Health

Those who have been attending my recent lectures know that my focus has broadened to incorporate the study of hunter-gatherer children and how they were tended, nourished, and spent their time and how they differ emotionally from agricultural/industrial children. Suffice to say, this study has been very eye opening. I could never have imagined the full impact of our modern lives on children, which for many is sedentary, material, and divorced from nature.