Interestingly, this article makes a similar claim for getting enough Vitamin E during pregnancy: "The study included 1,861 children whose mothers were recruited during pregnancy. The researchers surveyed the women on their diet habits during pregnancy and assessed children's diets and respiratory health at age 5. They found that children whose mothers had the lowest vitamin E intake during pregnancy were still more likely to suffer wheezing at age 5, and were about twice as likely to have doctor-diagnosed asthma."
(I saw another article on this subject that speculated that the mania for keeping peanut butter out of pregnant women's diets, because of fears of food allergies, might have the unintended result of causing asthma instead. I am particularly interested in the link between vitamins in pregnancy and childhood asthma, since my husband has asthma and I am pg!)
I am firmly convinced (and have been for a while) that you simply cannot get everything you need from your diet, you need supplements.
To get the MDR of potassium, you'd have to eat like 5 baked potatoes a day. Then to get the vitamin C you need, you're looking at probably 8 to a dozen oranges. Add in all the other vitamins and minerals, and you're looking at a shopping cart full of food.
Don't forget the coconut oil and MCFA's!!
Lauric acid is important for the body, very high in coconut oil, Also very high in mother's milk.
Interesting. This could account for the much higher rates of asthma in "inner city" (read "black and Hispanic") children. Many leftist sources try to attribute this to socioeconomic disadvantage and resulting factors like higher pollution levels and cockroach infestation in poor city neighborhoods, but the combination of dark skin and poor nutritional habits may be the real culprit.