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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2606066/Miso-soup-prevent-measles-Why-Alicia-Silverstone-feeding-two-year-old-son-plant-based-diet-instead-getting-vaccinated.html

No vaccinations at all...no meds (wet socks to bring down a fever)...a plant-based diet will keep her kid from ever getting sick...crazy, right?

So who is going to buy her book?
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I won't buy her book, but I'll look at it in the library. I often think that there's some truth in things like this that at first sound crazy. Her thesis that eating a very clean, healthy diet is the basis for health sounds plausible to me. I think the health of the mother, including what she eats and has eaten during her life pre-conception, has a big impact on the health of the child.

[b]If she doesn't want to vaccinate her kids, that's her choice.[/b] If she wants to use cabbage leaves and breast milk for colds, OK, whatever.

Just because some of her ideas seem kooky, doesn't mean all are. I am a firm believer in the value of eating the proper foods, and eliminating all chemicals from environment and diet. I've seen the difference in my family's health, so at least that part of her parenting philosophy is sound. The rest of it, well, I'll read it in the library. [/quote]

If she doesn't vaccinate her child, it's not just some harmless personal choice.  She's imposing that risk on the rest of us.  Yes, it's her legal right, but no, it's not OK.[/quote]

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