Should we vax?

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Here are my thoughts on " should I vax if we do not have a healthy

lifestyle "

My belief about good diet and illness is this....eating vegan with an

emphasis on living foods won't necessarily alter whether you get a

particular infection if exposed....but I do think it can alter your body's

reaction to that infection, meaning whether that infection manifests as a

serious illness, a mild illness or totally asymptomatically.

My reasons for not vaccinating are not so much out of concern for the

immediate and dramatic risks (fever, convulsions, brain damage, which in

reality are not that common) but rather is for the long term risks -- which

I expect are quite common, but the average health consumer does not link

back to the vaccine. If I was going to feed my children meat and dairy

products, hydrogenated fats and other health compromising ingredients which

I think are an even bigger risk factor in terms of one's long term health,

in my view it would be absurd to worry about vaccine dangers! (unless we

had a family history of acute reactions to vaccines.)

The number one cause of premature death in this country is still heart

disease, and the biggest preventable risk factors for it are diet and

smoking. A variety of cancers are probably also at least partially caused

by diet. In my estimation, meat and dairy consumption are most likely a

contributing factor of probably at least five to ten times more deaths and

disabiltiy then vaccines.

It's like in the interest of protecting your small child while he's riding

a bike, you make him wear knee pads, a helmut, and gloves -- but then allow

him to ride back and forth across the interstate!

While I do think vaccines are risky, I think it is even riskier for a child

to NOT get breastmilk as a baby, or to be fed meat and dairy. I think

exposure to vaccines in a child who has not been breastfed, and is eating

the standard American diet is only very minutely increasing that child's

risk of degenerative disease later in life (which I believe will be quite

high!) Therefore I think it might make sense for those children to be

vaccinated -- it might at least decrease their odds of certain acute

illnesses-- until the vaccine wears off.

JoAnn Farb

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