Bits and Pieces after Christmas

  Well, I hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday.  I did.  But of course, it's back to the grind.  So many things have caught my eye the past few days.
   Our paper reports on an article from the Atlantic, on how terrible the US school system is. Here it is, " Your Child Left Behind ".  I have yet to dig into it, but just from the reading I have done over the past year or so, and my observation of both children and young adults, I do have to wonder what is going on in public school.  I'm going to go on a limb and say that private has it's own set of problems as well.
   The news, had a few eye catching tidbits.  Apparently, milk based infant formula, contributes to obesity.  Formula's that increase weight gain, I did a little searching around on the type of substitute formula's that are recommended for those infants who can not tolerate milk.  I'll probably have a whole blog article on it, with the information I found.  How about this?  Let's just educate women and families about the benefits of Breastfeeding, the effects of formula, and help women accomplish breastfeeding and overcome any problems that arise.
    Here was another new bit-SIDs and New Years Day.  Well, who exactly is researching SIDS, what causes it, the contributing factors etc?  Every so many years, there is something new to do, to try to avoid SIDS.  That would bring us back around to the above mentioned formula, and a slew of other things.



    Lastly,  as you know, mom is here for a visit.  And as usual, she got a cold within a day of getting here, and insisting on taking some Alka Seltzer cold and flu.  I had to go and ask her why she took it, when the ingredients are horrible, and will do nothing but depress her immune system.  Oddly enough, my other half, mentioned to her later, the same thing, and that she's always sick for the whole time she visits, and she takes the medicine that is supposed to work.  We're trying to convince her to try our Borions homeopathic medicine.  But it led to a conversation about how she got a flue shot-hmm, okay.  I didn't think she ever got one.  Apparently so, because she had the Flue a few years back, pretty bad.  I told her the vaccine was not 100% effective, and what would she do if she got the flue anyhow?  So what you haven't had the flue in five years-it could be the vaccine, or it could be you just didn't catch it!  And that led to her comment that what we eat and surround ourselves with, doesn't really change our genes.  If we have bad genes, we have bad genes, regardless what the researches are saying.  Oddly enough, there was no reply when I said a vaccine contains cancer cells, and how are people contacting this cancer, who do not have direct contact with the specimen, but only via the vaccine?
  It's just interesting that some of the older generation completely lives by those, "Wives tales", and how their parents lived and are healthy, yet others, just could care less.  Why-because they are old and don't care any more.  Sigh.  Noting something-every time we have certain family members visit us for extended periods-even if they d not stay with us, they get a cold.  They take over the counter, regular cold medicine, because they say it works, and they have the cold for pretty much the duration they are here. This could be weeks, too. Maybe we cause allergies and colds?