> Give your daughter a hug from me. All my friends in 8th grade were wearing > bras and I didn't have a thing to put in one until I was in 11th grade.
One comment. Read some books by MD John McDougall; in particular a book he wrote just for women. Puberty is accelerated by a high fat diet. Our SAD (Standard Wester Diet) is unpresidented in history and a side effect of high fat, high protein, high animal proteins is that the age of menarch is reduced. This results in a dramatic increase in breast (and other hormone cancers). A vegetarian diet will cut your hormones in half, delay menarch, make menopause come a few years sooner, remove/reduce PMS and more. That's based upon research and personal experience of friends. Of course one can be obese and unhealthy on a vegetarian diet- eat lots of animal proteins (cheese, diary), lots of processed foods .... I highly recommend reading The China Study by T. Colin Campbell and books by MDs John McDougall, Joel Fuhrman (esp. the book for kids), Dr Esselstyn, Neil Barnard and of course John Robbins. The dramtic rise in obestity, heart disease, cancer, autoimmune diseases like MS, type II diabeties, and the host of other "western" diseases aka the diseases of the kings are due to our SAD diet and lifestyle. You are what you eat and we currently eat a diet which has no history of safe consumption; a chemical hodgepodge of things which our body is not adapted to. The amazing thing is that most of those diseases can be reversed by a healthy diet. Decades of dammage can be undone; medications tossed aside..... The nice thing about a change in diet is that there are no nasty side effects as there are with ALL drugs; no surgery is necessary and it costs nothing. Another excellent book is Overdosed America by an MD who researched changes he saw happening in his practice. It's quite an eye opener. When my wife discovered a book of mine - Diet For a Small Planet we were whole-food vegetarian, for environmental reasons, the next day. After much research I went pretty well whole-food vegan. Whole-food; not processed crap food - 80% whole carbs, 10% plant protein, 10% fats from foods; not added fats when cooking. Our weight droped; our blood cholesterol fell thru the floor (135 anyone?) to a level that is likely undoing the dammage of decades of eating SAD, gums are better, teeth don't require "scaling" and many other side effects. I pity the children being raised eating a SAD. I see them in the playgrounds; obese parents and kids already there or getting there. The health problems of the parents are visited upon the children decades earlier in life. In Britain there have already been court cases - taking parents to court for the health effects of what the parents are doing to the children. If what you eat makes you unhealthy you can expect it to have the same effect on your kids! Anyways; read the books; The China Study in particular. Please don't take this personally. I'm not going to post about this again. I've got family and friends that match the above situation. They're too busy (we suggest reading about Voluntary Simplicity) or the ridicule our diet as their health and lives sink; as they get hospitalized as they "live it up" and go from obese with diabeties to being on dialsis, to loosing their vision (typically due to high cholesterol from the diet).... One can pray and inform and lead by example but as they say - we dig our graves with our teeth. It's all been known for a long long time. - Eric _______________________________________________ h-costume mailing list [email protected] http://mail.indra.com/mailman/listinfo/h-costume
