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In reply to the discussion: Sharp rise in child bowel disease cases [View all]hedgehog
(36,286 posts)57. Some of us are melanin deficient and can't take the sun -
- but that's why God put Vitamin D capsules in little bottles!
Seriously - I and a couple of my kids can trigger flares of autoimmune disorders with sun exposure!
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You are too kind. It's so overprocessed and adulterated it's not food. It's just the idea of food.
freshwest
Jun 2012
#4
I'm guessing it's b/c if you stuff yourself with crap food, you become obese & get bowel diseases
wordpix
Jun 2012
#30
I knew a guy whose family raised wheat. He told me that the wheat we eat is not the wheat we ate.
TalkingDog
Jun 2012
#14
maybe people have reactions to the pesticides & after-harvest chemicals sprayed on wheat, nuts, etc
wordpix
Jun 2012
#33
Yeah, antibiotics have been overprescribed for a long time and we are now seeing the results.
DCBob
Jun 2012
#47
Oh no, I know all about the biodem movement and the new form of woo it is proposing
Godhumor
Jun 2012
#50
Yes, I wasn't disputing the study I was disputing the conclusions from your first link
Godhumor
Jun 2012
#52
Well, if I had to guess, at this point, I think we will see one of two things...
Godhumor
Jun 2012
#60
Well, the ONLY mention of Kerri Rivera @ the AoA website is found within a single comment to a post.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#76
Anyone reading the archives of the AoA website realizes that your claim is blatantly false.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#84
Like I said, 2009. And it's still being talked about in glowing terms as recently as a week ago.
LeftyMom
Jun 2012
#90
BTW, certain pediatric gastroenterologists are unsung heroes in the battle to understand autism -
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#62
FYI, Harvard Health Pub: The Autism Revolution: Whole-Body Strategies for Making Life All It Can Be
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#64
Well, the ONLY mention of Kerri Rivera @ the AoA website is found within a single comment to a post.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#78
free country, of course. my disgust is anti-vaccers and their ilk hurt children
Godhumor
Jun 2012
#91
Preposterous. Harvard's pediatric GI MDs invent the field, co-author text books, rewrite paradigms.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#92
Try using AoA in its role as an autism news aggregator instead of as a primary source - dual roles.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#94
Sadly, uh, no, it's more nuanced than that AS ADMITTED BY NONCONTROVERSIAL EXPERTS.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#97
If the environment is a factor, it's a variable which can be altered. What does that threaten?
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#101
Injecting shit from a healthy person into the colon of a sufferer has shown promise
FarCenter
Jun 2012
#98
Spare us that bizarre TREATMENT hypothesis; clearly, PREVENTION is preferable, say eating real food.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#100
I fail to see why it is bizarre; if the right microbes aren't present they need to be introduced
FarCenter
Jun 2012
#105
What you eat as in horizontal gene transfer from GMO consumption, not fecal contamination.
proverbialwisdom
Jun 2012
#106