Guest guest Posted June 7, 2004 Report Share Posted June 7, 2004 well, that totally proves what the doctors tell you wrong then because my doctor always said not to eat liver while pregnant because the high vit A content causes toxicity for baby Message: 1 Date: Sun, 06 Jun 2004 21:00:16 -0000 From: " beckymauldin2001 " <beckymauldin@...> Subject: Re: successful NT pregnancy? I had a very easy pregnancy eating NT foods. Took alot of supplements also and tried to eat as much raw food as possible, including liver. I had no health problems while pregnant and the baby is incredibly healthy. This was my first child and the birth itself was not easy...I suppose I was hoping for a more primitive- culture-type of birth where they just have the baby and keep on truckin! Oh, well, there's always next time. Nearly everyone that sees our baby makes a comment on how alert and " with it " she is. She could support her own body weight on her legs from the day she was born. Hardly ever cries, sleeps like a log....I could go on and on...Needless to say, eating all that liver sure paid off! And I have to say, an NT diet sure makes cute babies!! Becky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 8, 2004 Report Share Posted June 8, 2004 ....well, that totally proves what the doctors tell you wrong then because my doctor always said not to eat liver while pregnant because the high vit A content causes toxicity for baby... I doubt you could over-dose on vitamin A just from the liver. Maybe if you are already taking a supplement or ate nothing but liver all day Over-dosing on supplements would be more of a worry. It is far safer to get it from your food than supps. Cheers, Tas'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 9, 2004 Report Share Posted June 9, 2004 <<well, that totally proves what the doctors tell you wrong then because my doctor always said not to eat liver while pregnant because the high vit A content causes toxicity for baby>> The subject of Vitamin A has come up on another of the lists and while i am not in the position of being preggers i do take CLO and there is a good article on Vit A in the files section of this group. Kathy A. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 9, 2004 Report Share Posted June 9, 2004 I thought that the problem with periodic consumption the fat soluble vitamins (A, D, E, K) was that it could become toxic if enough of it accumulated in the fatty tissues of your body, unlike the other vitamins which didn't stick around. Anyways, here's an interesting abstract on vitamin A overdoses and children. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve & db=pubmed & dopt=Abstra\ ct & list_uids=8470309 According to this page, the tolerable upper intake levels of Vitamin A for pregnant women 19+ is 10K IU/3000 ug, but 3 oz of cooked beef liver has 30K IU. http://www.cc.nih.gov/ccc/supplements/vita.html However, it doesn't quantify how much of that is absorbed. (Besides, one vitamin A anecdote that is dependent on many variables hardly " proves " anyone is right or wrong. That's a scary way to make health decisions.) Re: NT pregnancy > ...well, that totally proves what the doctors tell you wrong then because my doctor always said not to eat liver while pregnant because the high vit A content causes toxicity for baby... > > I doubt you could over-dose on vitamin A just from the liver. Maybe if you are already taking a supplement or ate nothing but liver all day Over-dosing on supplements would be more of a worry. It is far safer to get it from your food than supps. > > Cheers, > Tas'. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 9, 2004 Report Share Posted June 9, 2004 > Re: NT pregnancy > > >I thought that the problem with periodic consumption the fat soluble >vitamins (A, D, E, K) was that it could become toxic if enough of it >accumulated in the fatty tissues of your body, unlike the other vitamins >which didn't stick around. > >Anyways, here's an interesting abstract on vitamin A overdoses and >children. >http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve & db=pubme >d & dopt=Abstract & list_uids=8470309 Well I tend not to rely on pubmed abstracts for reliable info. But it is interesting that they say the gave a 1 year old 1,612,500 I.U. of vit. A over a 3 week period with no toxicity symptoms. Wonder if it was natural vitamin A or a synthetic man-made derivative (known to cause birth defects).... > >According to this page, the tolerable upper intake levels of Vitamin A for >pregnant women 19+ is 10K IU/3000 ug, but 3 oz of cooked beef liver has 30K >IU. >http://www.cc.nih.gov/ccc/supplements/vita.html Well, you get what you pay for when you depend on the gov't for reliable nutrition info ;-) Suze Fisher Lapdog Design, Inc. Web Design & Development http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3shjg Weston A. Price Foundation Chapter Leader, Mid Coast Maine http://www.westonaprice.org ---------------------------- “The diet-heart idea (the idea that saturated fats and cholesterol cause heart disease) is the greatest scientific deception of our times.” -- Mann, MD, former Professor of Medicine and Biochemistry at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee; heart disease researcher. The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics <http://www.thincs.org> ---------------------------- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 10, 2004 Report Share Posted June 10, 2004 If you haven't studied this area of WAP, please do, it will answer your questions about the vitamin A thing. http://www.westonaprice.org/nutrition_guidelines/nutrition_guidelines.ht ml and about women, pregnancy and babies http://www.westonaprice.org/women/women.html http://www.westonaprice.org/children/children.html Re: NT pregnancy I thought that the problem with periodic consumption the fat soluble vitamins (A, D, E, K) was that it could become toxic if enough of it accumulated in the fatty tissues of your body, unlike the other vitamins which didn't stick around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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