Posted on 11/15/2024 12:12:26 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Trends in child health are in fact worrisome, and scientists welcome a renewed focus on foods and environmental toxins. But vaccines and fluoride are not the cause.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now President-elect Donald J. Trump’s pick to lead the Department of Health and Human Services, has for years called attention to what he considers an “epidemic” of chronic disease that has left America’s children among the sickest in the developed world.
Mr. Kennedy blames environmental toxins and a broken food system. But he also points to some of the most widely acclaimed advances of the last century: fluoridated water and vaccines that have nearly eradicated diseases like polio.
Most child health experts are adamantly opposed to scaling back fluoridation or immunizations, saying such changes would harm health and trigger outbreaks of deadly infectious diseases.
But many do not reject Mr. Kennedy’s primary diagnosis: There is a child health crisis in America.
“On this particular point he’s right,” said Dr. Philip Landrigan, a pediatrician and epidemiologist who directs the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good at Boston College.
Even as infectious diseases and child mortality plummeted in the 20th century, he added: “There is no question noncommunicable diseases in children are up. I disagree with him that vaccines are the cause.”
Many scientists like Dr. Landrigan acknowledge that there are disturbing trends in childhood health in the United States, and they welcome Mr. Kennedy’s focus on foods and chemicals in the environment.
At the same time, they say, the solutions are not as simple as Mr. Kennedy has sometimes suggested. “It’s very clear that there’s no single one factor that’s driving increases in all of these noncommunicable diseases across the board,” Dr. Landrigan said.
Chronic disease affects the majority of American adults...
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https://www.google.com/search?q=vaccine+autism
That, alone, should trigger alarm bells.
Absence of proof is not proof
Fluoride works by ion exchange on the surface of teeth.
How does dosing everyone internally with fluoride work then?
However a link could be found between fluoride intake and lower IQ.
I believe it was the Chinese who found this link as areas with high natural fluoride in the water was where kids with learning difficulties were most common.
I am just pointing out the blatant censorship.
Evidently you are fine with censorship, Comrade.
Kennedy: “I’d like to use honest science to understand the causes.”
NYT: “Oh, that’s not necessary. We know the cause. Please allow us to persuade you to stop your investigations.”
I think a couple on FR must have had too much fluoride in their lives...
“Most child health experts are adamantly opposed…”
Post Covid the thoughts and opinions of health or medical “experts” are far from persuasive for many people.
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/imz-schedules/child-adolescent-age.html
You okay with the above...?
I stopped reading at second sentence.
I’m on a low sodium diet.
Household brand pancake syrup is loaded w sodium
100% Maple syrup has zero sodium.
“I am just pointing out the blatant censorship.
Evidently you are fine with censorship, Comrade”
You gave a Google search link. You failed to cite even one example.
Your resorting to Alynsky tactics totally reduces your credibility.
Most of us here are not spring chickens. How many vaccines did you get when you were younger? Half a dozen at most with three of them in one big shot that showed on your shoulder for decades?
It’s dozens now.
When my son was 1 1/2 years old and saying small words/phrases like “milk please”, my wife took him for his scheduled round of shots and I remarked, “I don’t remember kids getting all these shots back in my day”. Within a week, he quit talking and made nearly zero eye contact. It was like a switch had been flipped in his brain. He narrowed his toy usage down to one little small pencil shaped thing and flicked it back in forth in front of his face all day. No more smiling. He didn’t talk again until he was 4 1/2.
I know what I know.
“100% Maple syrup has zero sodium.”
Low but some sodium.
I have friends and relatives who have experienced the EXACT same thing, “a switch was flipped and my son was gone”. I thank GOD every day my sons are ok, they were born in the 90’s before a lot of these dozens of shots were mandated. My great nephew’s son has the mental state of a 2-year-old in a 6-year-olds body. It’s infuriating.
“How many vaccines did you get when you were younger?”
All of them, I know this because it’s on my records, not because I remember them. Nobody remembers their infant shots. You only remember the ones that took place after the age of 5 or 6, which is very few.
That scar on your shoulder was from the smallpox, not a triple vaccine.
There’s a lot you know that just isn’t so.
There are way too many vaccines given to children in way too short a time frame, and IMO, not all of them are needed.
Real maple syrup is one of the few luxury items we splurge on.
We don’t use much at all, a gallon will last us years, but it is light years better for you than flavored and colored high fructose corn syrup.
Climate hysteria and CRT are part this. Lectured how the planet is too hot and we're going to die ... telling white kids they're oppressors and black/brown kids they are oppressed ... in short, propagandizing these children instead of teaching them how to read and do math, science, etc. is making them some kind of crazy.
Today's children's lack of exercise, crappy diets, staring at screens instead of playing, moving, doing something besides sitting is so different than children used to be.
Parents hand their kids a phone as babysitters - hell, the parents' own phones are THEIR babysitters. So we all stare at screens instead of interact and relate to one another, talk, laugh. Everyone becoming more and more isolated in their own online world.
It's all so strange.
There’s an increasing number of kids that are fatties.
Why? Lack of exercise? Poor diet? Have their nose stuck in an iPhone or Android device?
That has nothing to do with the subject of my post.
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