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Skriven 2010-07-28 21:32:18 av Janis Kracht (1:261/38)
  Kommentar till text 40347 av Nancy Backus (1:261/1381.0)
Ärende: Re: Herbs and such
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Hi Nancy,

> Ithaca especially has been a hotbed of alternative medicine and natural
> foods... for years...  That's the home of the Moosewood Restaurant,
> after all...  which has been around since about the time I was a new
> mom... ;)    But I've been seeing evidence of the movement spreading
> pretty far and wide... including herbals for health...

Definitely true :)  Dr. Bahari, the doctor who discovered the benefits of LDN
for MS (very untraditional drug for that purpose) went to Cornell.  Amazing
fellow really.  And still to this day,  you can see the culture unchanged in
Ithaca that Ron and I grew up with in SE NY.  It's like going home when we get
to Ithaca.. darn, wish it wasn't SO snowy there (bg).

>>> various news agencies.. the habit of putting babies in the same bed as
>>> parents was pretty bad, and reportedly possibly the cause a number of
>>> infant deaths (will have to go online and find the source). Hopefully
>>> those kids saw it.
>> I saw something about it in the Raleigh paper as well.
>> The practice can't be good for anyone.. and does seem like it could be
>> dangerous for the baby.

> Dunno... way back when I was in La Leche League, there was a book out
> called The Family Bed... it made a pretty good case for it being a

I was a member, but never saw that book :)  Figures our area was a little
behind (g).

> natural (and safe) alternative.  One of the points made was that in
> other, and earlier, cultures, the idea of having separate beds for each
> member of the family was unheard of.  Of course, I've known some people

Well, sure if you're talking about say a culture where it's been in practice -
the child would never think to take advantage of the situation, nor do I think
the mom would be worried about having to carry the kid for years before he or
she allowed Mom to put the kid down (I've seen that with some of them :() These
days I think it's a bit different - the kids are smarter.  Certainly the babies
are smarter :)  But they still have that good old instinct to push as far as a
parent will allow (g).

> I'd not think would be good candidates for it... the ones that go to bed
> in a drunken or drugged stupor, for example... they are much more likely
> to overlie the child... but, then, they are also more likely to have
> breathing problems themselves as well.

Yes that would be horrible :(


>> Same here.  We bought my daughter some tool or other from the site
>> where I got my grain mill, that let her make milk from 'various'
>> seeds, etc.  Looked pretty neat :)

> I'm seeing "milk" from more and more sources commercially lately... Of
> course, soymilk and rice milk have been around for ages, and almond milk
> is a newer entry.  And then I just saw an ad for hemp milk...  :)

Yes, I've seen that as well.. wasn't anxious to try it.. but I did try some
almond milk in my coffee at my daughter's house on Sunday.. was good :)

>> puppies though.. they thoroughly overran my greenbean bed :(  Next
>> planting will be in the penned in area with the Tomatoes (g)

> BAD puppies...!  (G)  Your penned in area will just have to get larger,
> to accomodate all the garden that needs to be protected from their
> gambols...  ;)

Just until I can bang some sense into them Lol.. seriously, I haven't tried
much in the way of disciplining except for stay, sit, come.. they just seem to
take everything as a joke Lol.. ("OH!  I got your attention?? GOOD!!!") but
they do make me laugh, so that's good.  One of these days I'll get serious
about their training (probably in the fall) and do it one dog at a time... You
really have to do it like that.  Certainly with Labs :)

>> Yes, at the healthfood store, and it's also at Weis food stores. I
>> guess it's popular because of all the people these days with Dairy
>> intolerance.

> Wegmans Nature's Marketplace has a lot of the ones I mentioned above...
> probably have the coconut milk too... and who knows what else.. ;)  The

They had the coconut milk in a display case this week (Monday I think).. And
they've had the others in their natural foods section for a while.

> dairy intolerances probably do have a lot to do with the burgeoning
> variety we see...   :)  I note also that the Almond milks proclaim their
> soy-free-ness as well as their lactose-free-ness.  ;)

Yep.. My daughter had tried it early on and wasn't crazy about it.. but I think
someone got something right finally (g).

Take care,
Janis

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