Re: Fats Improve Nutrient Absorbtion -- the pediatric professsional community in denial

Hey Valerie --

I always enjoy your posts so much on other forums and am glad to see you here at OP! Although I guess this was a cross-post. Still slightly mysterious to me.

I would be willing to bet cash money that the lack of good fats contributes to the allergies-asthma-eczema epidemic as well as the obesity one. Interested to hear what you and everyone else thinks. My brother- and sister-in-law have a little boy with the three of those. They are both pediatric nurse-practitioners. It is astounding to me how it works when we see them.

I sit there in silent shock when the little one runs to his dad every 10 or 15 minutes to plant his face in a big inhaler. "Silent" because, of course, I keep my mouth shut unless I really, really think that there is a chance of my influencing someone, which of course is not often; "shock" because this kid is so unhealthy and his parents got Ivy-League medical educations but learned nothing about nutrition, it would seem. He eats a lot of wheat and dairy and then has all of these reactions. Why not just take away the things that might be the culprits?

They of course sent urgent e-mails about vaccinating. Why oh why did I ever mention that we were not going to do it? That was the first inkling I had that people in the medical community are VERY attached to their VERY firmly held beliefs that they are the bearers of the public health and that vaccines are their sword.

Another time I was talking to an acquaintance who was in medical school. I said (I was preg. with the twins at the time) that I had no intention of vaccinating. She launched into a lecture at once. She now has a baby and I am sure he got stuck with all of it.

And then there was our first pediatrician. (Why do I even go?) I took the girls in because they had high fevers and were throwing up. She immediately wanted to draw blood to test metabolic function because of their weight (they are thin). Why would you stick a child who is really sick? Anyway, when I said that we would have to talk about that later, she got really mad. I finally asked for a diagnosis (for the fever and nausea) and she said, sort of snarkily, "Well, we don't really know because they haven't had all of their shots!"

Well, we DID know. We knew they didn't have Hepatitis B because they haven't been shooting IV drugs! We knew they didn't have polio because nobody gets polio except from vaccines! Etcetera. It was a completely bitchy and gratuitous comment and that was it for that practice and us.

But yeah, all of these encounters have tested my strength. I like to keep the peace and that is a powerful urge.

I do try to keep in mind that public opinion changes and that somebody has to be in the forefront when what will become an accepted belief is still an unpopular one. Look at breastfeeding. For a while there it was really frowned upon!

Hope you are all having a great day and happy pulling.

Laura
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