Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] narrow skeletons Re: Unintended Magazine Endorsement for FF

Monday, August 9, 2010

[fast5] narrow skeletons Re: Unintended Magazine Endorsement for FF

As I remember when I read Weston Price's book "Nutrition and Physical Degenration" that the children would develope narrow faces in the womb from the mother's nutrition when she was pregnant.

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Heather Twist <HeatherTwist@...> wrote:
>
> Good rant!
>
> Actually it is interesting about the "skinny" thing. What I'm noticing at my
> kid's school is that some of the kids are "thinner" in the sense of a
> funhouse mirror ... it's like their entire skeleton is pushed in. Narrow
> face, narrow shoulders, narrow hips. Way narrower than what I remember as a
> kid. If you look at National Geographic photos of, say, sub-saharan
> Africans, even starving ones, they are not "narrow". Big wide faces and
> noses and teeth. Ditto for skeletons of older Europeans. But many of the
> kids today look scrunched.
>
> Or, they are rather fat. I think the fatness hides the narrow skeleton?
>
> My daughter has been eating a rather non-American diet most of her life (or
> rather, it is more like what my grandmother would have eaten: farm food).
> She is wide ... wide hips, shoulders, head. Narrow in the waist, loads of
> muscle, not much fat. In terms of weight charts, she would be overweight,
> because she just doesn't fit the weight curve for a girl.
>
> From what I've read, a narrow developing skeleton has to do with lack of
> vitamin D or K? I think it's very possible that one reason people are
> reacting to skinny kids these days is that there is more to it than just
> lack of fat. The kids really are malnourished, in the sense of not getting
> enough of the right nutrients.
>
> The mothers I know who breastfeed though, usually have the problem that the
> docs think the baby is too *fat*. Breastfed babies do get chunky!
> Recommending grains though is just plain weird, at 4 months. One of the most
> common causes of "failure to thrive" in infants is gluten intolerance, which
> CAN come through the mother's milk. The gluten triggers attacks the villi,
> which prevents absorption of nutrients. Giving "grains" is the best way to
> make such a child really and truly ill.
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Chantelle <chantelles@...> wrote:
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> >
> > Yes. I so much agree! To me it is so much better for their confidence!!!! (
> > I felt like my mom's methods degraded my confidence to some degree, or maybe
> > to a lot of a degree, depends on the day I'm thinking about it :) :))
> >
> > Dh and I were both very genetically skinny children, very very skinny and
> > genetically skinny young adults. We both have very skinny pictures of our
> > parents as young adults too and my parents as adults neither one has a
> > weight problem, etc. and grandparents all didn't either, for the most part
> > as in most of their lives they were all normal weighted people......
> >
> > Anyway, I said all that to say that this is where the kid thing gets
> > tricky. People are used to seeing fatter chunkier kids I think. Nearly every
> > mom I've met has had a doctor start one of their babies on formula because
> > they were too thin or get the all concerned about their too thin
> > toddlers..... This distresses me so much because I know this is NOT healthy
> > (putting babies on formula when it is obvious the baby was healthy and
> > thriving and the parents are genetically tiny). Last case I heard of this,
> > the doctor said "it's probably just genetic but you need to get the 4 month
> > old on formula and eating cereal just to be safe". The mom had been
> > exclusively breast feeding.
> >
> > I get so upset about it that I want to just explode and if I don't know the
> > person telling the story I usually just have to walk away because I feel
> > like anything I say isn't' going to matter anyway......."the doctor said" is
> > going to trump what I say, but in most situations I try to speak up a little
> > bit.......this last time I just couldn't because the more times I hear that
> > same tale the more I am getting so upset......
> >
> > Oh and in this last case the doctor has JUST told the mom this during that
> > past week and the baby was actually almost CHUNKY. I know it didn't get
> > chunky in the few days it had been on formula.
> >
> > Anyway...this is totally off topic and has turned into a rant...... Thanks
> > for letting me vent here!
> > Chantelle
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