Every time I read Weston A. Price or Sally Fallon's writing I focus in on something new. When I was pregnant I got caught up on phytates and the enzyme enhancing properties of fermentation. More recently, I was fascinated by the traditional practice of eating raw meat. When my daughter's teeth began to decay, I knew immediately that it had to be a result of poor nutrition, mine, and subsequently, hers. My research into alternative treatment for her teeth quickly led me back to the work of Weston A. Price. This time I have focused on his research on nutrient dense foods rich in vitamins A, D and Activator X.

Dr. Price found that all traditional cultures fed women, and sometimes men, a special diet before marriage, during pregnancy, and throughout the nursing period. These special foods, or 'superfoods' as we call them in my household, varied depending on geographic location and included fish eggs, various organ meats - especially liver, milk and cream from cows eating fast growing grass, bird eggs, shellfish and I'm sure there are plenty of other examples that I don't know about. When Dr. Price asked these people why they gave childbearing couples special foods, they responded simply, "So that they will have perfect babies." It's interesting that they understood so clearly the relationship between nutrition, health, and fertility, when we are still telling breastfeeding mothers that they can eat junk food without harming their babies... Read the rest here!

I took my daughter to the dentist last week. She has visible caries in her two front teeth. This is indicative of a mysterious modern disease that is now being called Early Childhood Caries (ECC). I am currently working on a series of blog posts about ECC and pediatric dentistry in general, but my experience last week was so appalling that I want to write about it seperately from what will be a more scholarly essay.

After calling every pediatric dentist within an hour from my home, I discovered that every practice was a total mixed bag in terms of x-rays, amalgam, fluoride, etc., and that they all looked down on breastfeeding...Read the rest here!

This takes the abusurdity of the baby bucket, aka infant car seat travel system, to a new level. I feel like we've come full circle; from carrying babies in a sling, to carrying babies in a car seat, to carrying babies in a car seat in a sling.

These days the stork flies in with a baby in a car seat instead of a cloth bundle. Everywhere I go I see mothers lugging these heavy accessories around. On countless occasions I've seen parents take their baby and seat out of the car, pop them into a stroller, walk around town, go into a restaurant/coffee shop, put baby in the seat on the floor next to them, finish eating and leave, put baby and seat back in the stroller, back to the car, pop the seat into its base, and drive away. Not once do they touch or hold their child. I've seen babies fuss and strain against their car seat straps and parents react by rocking the seat or giving them more toys, rather than releasing their children from their restraints.

Read the rest here!

talimama.blogspot.com

this is where i'm writing these days. it's not very personal. i do a lot of research these days and i needed a place to put my thoughts.

maybe ya'll can help me come up with a name "Food and Birth" is just a placeholder until i can come up with something better.

the baby is doing great by the way...she ain't so baby anymore either. she's a full fledged toddling toddler...

www.westonaprice.org

Date:	2006-08-16 12:22
Subject:	good
Security:	Public
Mood:	accomplished

My baby is eight months old tomorrow. Next month she'll have been out as long as she was in.

Being a parent is great. I am very well suited for this kind of life. There is nothing like purpose to make every moment fulfilling.

I'm not sure why I took such a long leave of absence from my internet life or why I'm making a come back now. It's sort of a strange time to return. I needed to stay away for awhile. I felt too public after writing the zine about sexual assault. Giving birth has made me feel ready to face everyone again. So many big events in my life have been secret and stigmatized. It's such a relief to do something so big and amazing and after it's over I still have my baby. It's like waking from a wonderful dream and, even though the ethereal magic is gone, the things that made it so incredible are still here. Leah Zalea is asleep in my arms.

Life with a baby is awesome. Birth is awesome. Pregnancy...err...is very interesting and uncomfortable, but I would do it again. Although hopefully not anytime soon. I have no desire to join the "two under two" club.

We worked in the garden again today. I dug a rectangular bed and one shaped like an arrow. Claire dug two curvy rectangles. I planted about a third of the crescent moon shaped bed with lettuce, carrots, and beets. The sun went down before I had a chance to put in the radishes.

Date:	2006-03-05 15:42
Subject:	who is that??!?!!???^?%%&(#@$^Z*(*
Security:	Public
Mood:	indescribable

look look look

margie schoedinger is dead

i dreamt i had a baby.

i looked down at my stomach and looked at the patterns of stretch marks on my belly. forking like lightning. i called them my new tattoos. the tattoo that is on my arm in real life was on my stomach instead.

then the kitten in the house i was sleeping in beaked me in the lips and i woke up startled and shouting and woke up ace and she couldn't sleep the rest of the night. neither could i. there were too many fleas.

--- Tree Monkey <bangarangatan@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2003 10:51:05 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Tree Monkey <bangarangatan@yahoo.com>
> To: baam@lists.riseup.net
> Subject: [BAAM!] Fwd: Mass EF! Alert: Peaceful witnesses
> needed on Mt.Wachusett NOW!
>
>
> --- valeoftheoaks@hotmail.com wrote:
>
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > A update on the recent tree-sit on Mt. Wachusett
> > (see below):
> >
> > We've just learned that the police are not allowing
> > supporters of the
> > Mt.
> > Wachusett tree-sitters to get anyway near the
> > tree-sit area. This leaves
> > the
> > sitters vulnerable to any police activity that may
> > be threatening to the
> > two
> > sitters. With that in mind, we are URGING area peace
> > activists to go to
> > Mt.
> > Wachusett and bear witness to whatever takes place
> > near the proposed ski
> >
> > area expansion. The tree-sit area is past the ski
> > area entrance, up the
> > hill
> > to the right. It can be approached either by the
> > access road by the
> > transformer blockhouse or from above on the paved
> > Mt. Wachusett
> > Reservation
> > access road leading to the summit (in that case, the
> > proposed expansion
> > area
> > will be just below the intersection of the up & down
> > roads). It should
> > be
> > pointed out that Mt. Wachusett is PUBLIC PROPERTY
> > and open to all
> > citizens
> > of the Commonwealth. Please pass the notice on and
> > contact any friends
> > or
> > family who might beable to stand witness.
> >
> > for the Earth,
> >
> > D.O.
> >
> > contact: Mass EF! at takeaction2001@hotmail.com
> >
> > ******************************
> > Tree-sits Begins on Mt. Wachusett
> > 8/5/03
> >
> >
> >
> > Mt. Wachusett, MA - This morning Mass Earth First!
> > and other forest
> > defenders took to the trees in the proposed ski area
> > expansion on Mt.
> > Wachusett in central Massachusetts in a last ditch
> > effort to prevent the
> >
> > destruction of an old-growth buffer zone. After
> > years of legal wrangling
> >
> > between the ski area operator, Wachusett Mountain
> > Associates (WMA) and
> > mainstream environmental groups like the Sierra Club
> > and WEST, the
> > Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court recently
> > decided in favor of WMA's
> > wish
> > to clear cut a critical 12.5 acre buffer zone of
> > mature red oak that
> > protects the state's largest remaining tract of
> > old-growth forest east
> > of
> > the Connecticut River. While final appeals are being
> > considered, the
> > last
> > line of defense against the further destruction of
> > Mt. Wachusett was put
> > in
> > place overnight. At least two tree-sitters have
> > established their
> > positions
> > on trees in the proposed cut area. Their platforms
> > are secured to trees
> > slated for removal and they are vowing to remain "as
> > long as necessary"
> > to
> > stop the eradication of the buffer zone. In
> > addition, a road blockade
> > was
> > established in the vicinity of the tree-sits in an
> > effort to prevent
> > incursion into the buffer zone. At this time it is
> > believed that police
> > may
> > have removed and arrested those involved in the
> > blockade.
> >
> > Responding to a recent call for assistance in
> > non-violent resistance
> > to
> > WMA's plans, forest defenders in the New England
> > region converged on the
> >
> > Henry David Thoreau Memorial Base Camp prior to the
> > establishment of the
> >
> > tree-sit. The camp's name honors the legendary
> > Massachusetts naturalist
> > and
> > writer who hiked up Mt. Wachusett several times and
> > wrote about his
> > experience in "A Walk to Wachusett". The mountain
> > figures prominently in
> > the
> > state's long history being also a meeting place and
> > sacred ground for
> > Native
> > Americans. Mt. Wachusett has many unique ecological
> > features, most
> > notably
> > the old-growth forest at its crown and what may be
> > the largest specimen
> > of
> > Mountain Laurel in the state situated dangerously
> > close to the proposed
> > ski
> > expansion. "This ski area never should have been
> > here in the first
> > place",
> > noted a Mass Earth First! activist going by the name
> > of Red Oak, "This
> > is
> > public land set aside for future generations and
> > meant to be protected
> > against development. It was never intended to be the
> > private property of
> >
> > Jeff Crowley and his wealthy associates, nor the
> > playground for special
> > interests like ski enthusiasts." Mass Earth First!
> > initially took the
> > position that the ski area should remain as it is
> > and not be further
> > expanded, however other regional environmental
> > groups like Restore the
> > North
> > Woods have called for the shutdown of the ski area
> > and reforestation of
> > the
> > mountain. Given WMA's intransigency against anything
> > but further
> > expansion
> > of their highly profitable operation, Mass Earth
> > First! has reconsidered
> > its
> > former position.
> >
> > For the time being, forest defenders remain from
> > 80 to 100 feet up in
> > mature red oaks with no intention of coming down.
> > Their supporters are
> > asking for solidarity actions and reinforcements in
> > the face of the
> > looming
> > destruction of the critical buffer zone. "The cops
> > are all over the
> > mountain
> > now", reports forest defender Mountain Laurel, "We
> > need folks to help us
> >
> > support our friends in the trees and the trees
> > themselves."
> >
> > For more information email:
> > takeaction2001@hotmail.com or go directly
> > to
> > the Mt. Wachusett ski area south off Rt.2 in central
> > Mass. (bear left
> > past
> > the ski area entrance and look for activity to your
> > right further up the
> >
> > road. Parking in Mt. Wachusett Reservation lot
> > further on.)
> >
> > More info at:
> >
> http://wmass.indymedia.org/feature/display/1132/index.php

Date:	2003-07-16 20:11
Subject:	stolen from boigrlwonder
Security:	Public

http://objective.jesussave.us/creationsciencefair.html

Date:	2003-03-25 10:54
Subject:	thanks notemily
Security:	Public

ya'll need to read this.

it begins.

i dreamt i was attacked by three white birds.

you know something is truly fucked up when they stop showing commercials on the teevee.

Date:	2003-03-18 11:27
Subject:	thanks notemily
Security:	Public

http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/arc_Articles.asp?Article=46412&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=25361

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