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There was a clear pattern: the native diets had ten or more times the fat-soluble vitamins and one-and-a-half to fifty times more minerals than the diets of people in the United States.63 It is obvious that diets of people living in what doctors at the time would have called “backward” conditions were richer than those living in the technologically “advanced” United States by an order of magnitude.
Blackfoot Nation women utilized the still-unknown nutrient systems found in the lining of the large intestine of buffalo (and later, cow) to “make the baby have a nice round head.”
Children with suboptimal skull structure may need glasses, braces, or oral surgery,
Less attractive people rate themselves as less popular,93 less happy,94 and less healthy.95 They are more depressed more often,96 spend more time in jail, 97 and as adults, they earn less98 than their more attractive peers.
Beautiful people exist not because of luck, but because all DNA is naturally driven to create dynamically symmetric geometry as it’s generating tissue growth.
“when babies fix their stare at the same faces adults describe as highly attractive, their actions wordlessly argue against the belief that culture must teach us to recognize human beauty.”
that women with the most attractive of the four body types, the hourglass, not only live the longest, they also live better. Statistics consistently show that having a longer, slimmer waist and more womanly hips correlates with reduced diagnoses of infertility,116 osteoporosis,117 cancer,118 cognitive problems,119 abdominal aneurysms,120 diabetes and its complications,
If mom’s diet is deficient in calcium, it will be robbed from her bones. If deficient in brain-building fats—as horrible as this sounds—the fats that make up the mother’s own brain will be sought out and extracted.125 Pregnancy drains a woman’s body of a wide variety of vitamins, minerals, and other raw materials,
and breastfeeding demands more still.
Studies show that maternal brains can actually shrink, primarily in the hippocampal and temporal lobe areas, which control short-term memory and emotion.
This second baby will be constructed as well as possible in the depleted conditions in order that mom may pull through.
“a shorter period between births may reduce the ability of the mother to replenish her reserves adequately for this purpose”
The statistical improbability of one stunner following on the heels of another would predict, with rare exception, any consecutive child to be less attractive than the first regardless of how effectively mom can replenish her nutritional warehouse with baby-building supplies.
Incidentally, if the second sibling were a boy, the burst of estrogen receptivity might still create a feminizing effect, sharpening the center of the chin, arching the eyebrows, rounding the forehead, and plumping the lips.
These days, grants come from industry or special interest groups, and tend to support either the use of expensive medications and technology or a demand for more medical coverage for one of many special interest groups.
As an epidemiologist, he was unaware that excess fruit consumption leads to health problems due to the high sugar-to-nutrient ratio in fruit.
Children born today, I’m afraid, may be so genomically compromised that, for many, reproduction will not be possible even with the benefit of high-tech medical prodding.
