Guest guest Posted July 27, 2000 Report Share Posted July 27, 2000 Jeanie you are great! I do pray for you --glad I can tell you.I wish you peace which is hard for us to gain on our own.I send sisterly love. Gwen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 27, 2000 Report Share Posted July 27, 2000 Right on Michele.You too show the compassion you have for others .See what lessons we are learningfrom having CMT! GWEN Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 28, 2000 Report Share Posted July 28, 2000 In a message dated 7/27/00 8:27:52 AM Pacific Daylight Time, Grmifo91@... writes: > Dearest Jeanie, > I have been reading your postings and my heart swells for you. I know I > don't know you personally, although I would like to, and I won't give you > parenting advice, answers for your husband, but I will tell you, YOU ARE A > WORTHWHILE, BEAUTIFUL PERSON, and YOU ARE IMPORTANT. ***************** Michele, Thank-you so very much for your kind words.... And you are correct. If you love yourself it can make a big difference.... This is an area I have to work on. Thank-you, Jeanie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 28, 2001 Report Share Posted August 28, 2001 Dear a, Thank you for the wonderful testamonial. When I suggested the tea, it was for the baby--never considered giving it to the nursing mother. So glad it o know it worked via your milk! On your oldest child. I would get him to the orthodontist right away. Today they widen the palate to make room for the teeth--this is relatively new but many orthodontists now do it. However they must start around age 7. So be sure to ask, do you widen the palate? This of course will not widen his whole face, but it may make more room for the sinuses and glands. I say "relatively new" Actually the first person to widen the palate was. . . Weston Price! It has taken dentistry 60 years to catch up to this genius! Sally Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 28, 2001 Report Share Posted August 28, 2001 Dear Becky, My father and mother, who grew up in the farm country of New Mexico and California, respectively, both have straight lovely teeth and very good constitutions; all of their children have required extensive orthodontics and have had health problems of one sort or another. My mouth was so narrow that I had to have my wisdom teeth and four additional molars pulled before I got my braces at age sixteen. As a child, I suffered from ear infections, debilitating hay fever, and asthma, having to be taken to the emergency room on several occasions because I had stopped breathing. My husband's parents also have good, strong, straight teeth. His mother grew up in Switzerland, and his father grew up on a farm in Utah (my husband's grandfather died at age 95, and still had most of his teeth and all of his wits). However, my husband and his brothers grew up on a diet that included a lot of powdered skim milk and KoolAid (fortunately, they also ate lots of raw milk cheese, raw meat, and other Swiss delights that I think helped compensate for the processed food in their diet). My husband has a very narrow face, bad vision, and required extensive orthodontic work; he is the youngest of four boys, and he needed the most dental work. My theory is that his mother's body was progressively depleted with each pregnancy. She was not able to breastfeed, so all four also started out on formula. When we got married, I assumed that our bad teeth came from genetics (even though I had no empirical evidence for that), and that all our children would have the trouble we endured. Our oldest child, conceived and born before I had ever heard of Sally Fallon or Dr. Price, has a long, narrow face, and as his permanent teeth grow in (he is 7.5 years old), I can see that he'll probably be visiting the orthodontist as well. He is quite tall and lanky, just like his father. He has suffered with seasonal bouts of hay fever since he was small; these have improved, I believe, because his diet has improved. After our first child was born, I began researching nutrition; I was diagnosed with chronic fatigue syndrome, and needed to find some relief from my symptoms so that I could function. My search eventually led me to Nourishing Traditions and this board. Not only have I almost completely eliminated my own cfs and allergy symptoms, but our second son and two girls all have wider faces than their elder brother ever did at their ages, and they seem to have plenty of room in their mouths. In addition, they all are sturdier in build than our oldest. All the kids are allergy and cavity free (well, Tess, our three-month-old, doesn't count). Teeth CAN heal, strengthen, and remineralize, if fed properly. My husband was used to going to the dentist and discovering new cavities at each visit, even though he as always practiced good dental hygiene. When he went to the dentist last week, after a three- year absence, he had not one new cavity. I believe this is because of the improvements in our diet. I can't say enough about the powerful influence for good Nourishing Traditions has been in our lives. I know there are others who subscribe to this group who have similarly dramatic testimonials. Good luck as you build a strong, healthy family! P.S. Sally, thanks SO MUCH for the advice regarding Tess's colic. Adding more good fat to my diet (I didn't think I could eat any more!) and my drinking the mint/anise tea daily seems to have eliminated that problem, for the most part. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 1, 2001 Report Share Posted September 1, 2001 Our last trip to the dentist proved to be an interesting one. It had been fourteen months since we had been to the dentist. The last couple times my kids have had NUMEROUS cavities. One time it was 10 or 14 cavities in ONE CHILD! Yikes!!! I was really dreading this trip as I just knew there would be a lecture forthcoming from the dentist as to waiting so long to come back. Anyway, when we were there 14 months ago, the dentist referred us to an orthodontist as my daughter had a narrow palate. We visited two dentists getting a second opinion and they both agreed, our daughter needed braces. I liked one of the orthodontists best and my husband liked the other one so you can guess the outcome...we didn't do anything. We put off making the decision kind of hoping the problem would go away. This was about the same time that we found NT. We've stuck to the diet changes for the last sixteen months or so. On our last visit to the dentist I took both kids in and between the two of them they only had one cavity, and it was a little one. Also, my daughters palate has widened enough that he wants us to hold off another year or so before doing anything as the problem isn't crucial anymore and may correct itself in time. His comment was that he normally doesn't see changes like that without some type of intervention. I wish my daughter was as thrilled as we were to hear this news...she was really hoping to have braces so she would be " just like all the other kids " . We will keep up the diet changes as something seems to be working and I would like to think it's my hard work paying off! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 1, 2001 Report Share Posted September 1, 2001 Dear all The 12-page WAPF infomational brochure is a good way to get your message to health professionals. Sally Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 1, 2001 Report Share Posted September 1, 2001 Good job ! ----- Original Message ----- From: BrenRuble@... Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 11:47 PM Subject: Re: Having children Our last trip to the dentist proved to be an interesting one. It had been fourteen months since we had been to the dentist. The last couple times my kids have had NUMEROUS cavities. One time it was 10 or 14 cavities in ONE CHILD! Yikes!!! I was really dreading this trip as I just knew there would be a lecture forthcoming from the dentist as to waiting so long to come back. Anyway, when we were there 14 months ago, the dentist referred us to an orthodontist as my daughter had a narrow palate. We visited two dentists getting a second opinion and they both agreed, our daughter needed braces. I liked one of the orthodontists best and my husband liked the other one so you can guess the outcome...we didn't do anything. We put off making the decision kind of hoping the problem would go away. This was about the same time that we found NT. We've stuck to the diet changes for the last sixteen months or so. On our last visit to the dentist I took both kids in and between the two of them they only had one cavity, and it was a little one. Also, my daughters palate has widened enough that he wants us to hold off another year or so before doing anything as the problem isn't crucial anymore and may correct itself in time. His comment was that he normally doesn't see changes like that without some type of intervention. I wish my daughter was as thrilled as we were to hear this news...she was really hoping to have braces so she would be "just like all the other kids". We will keep up the diet changes as something seems to be working and I would like to think it's my hard work paying off! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 1, 2001 Report Share Posted September 1, 2001 , did you tell the dentist what your " intervention " was? Judith Alta Kidder Mission Possible Southwest Michigan jaltak@... -----Original Message----- Our last trip to the dentist proved to be an interesting one. It had been fourteen months since we had been to the dentist. The last couple times my kids have had NUMEROUS cavities. One time it was 10 or 14 cavities in ONE CHILD! Yikes!!! I was really dreading this trip as I just knew there would be a lecture forthcoming from the dentist as to waiting so long to come back. Anyway, when we were there 14 months ago, the dentist referred us to an orthodontist as my daughter had a narrow palate. We visited two dentists getting a second opinion and they both agreed, our daughter needed braces. I liked one of the orthodontists best and my husband liked the other one so you can guess the outcome...we didn't do anything. We put off making the decision kind of hoping the problem would go away. This was about the same time that we found NT. We've stuck to the diet changes for the last sixteen months or so. On our last visit to the dentist I took both kids in and between the two of them they only had one cavity, and it was a little one. Also, my daughters palate has widened enough that he wants us to hold off another year or so before doing anything as the problem isn't crucial anymore and may correct itself in time. His comment was that he normally doesn't see changes like that without some type of intervention. I wish my daughter was as thrilled as we were to hear this news...she was really hoping to have braces so she would be " just like all the other kids " . We will keep up the diet changes as something seems to be working and I would like to think it's my hard work paying off! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 2, 2001 Report Share Posted September 2, 2001 Yes. We go to this particular dentist as he's a strong believer in alternative healing and is familiar with Westin Price's work. He's a firm believer that the foods we eat are behind so many orthodontists paychecks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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