Just Say No to Nuts During Pregnancy

re: Just Say No to Nuts During Pregnancy

barbfeick — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:57:49 GMT

What has been unknown by the public is that vaccine manufacturers use peanut oil, walnut oil, almond oil, and other nut oils in the vaccine adjuvant. These ingredients do not have to appear on the package insert because it is protected by trade law.

re: Just Say No to Nuts During Pregnancy

DrMom5 — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:43:14 GMT

Exactly, anything the mother eats constantly can become allergenic to a vulnerable person. Get rid of soy, get on a Four Day Rotation Diet and some good essential fatty acids.

Too bad nobody told me that even ibuprofen and Pepto-Bismol prenatally can cause allergic sensitization of the fetus. My son wouldn't be handicapped today from going into a coma when I took those while nursing. (Damned Rhogam!) He's 18 and nobody will take a lawsuit against the ibuprofen manufacturers. :-(

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pinkskittles — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:18:59 GMT

I agree with other readers that whole, raw organic nuts that are fresh are healthy, in moderation. In no way should they constitute as the bulk of your caloric intake, for sure, and perhaps these studies were attributed to people who over consumed nuts. Aren't we only supposed to have a handful per serving? And maybe not more than one or two servings per day?

I'm sure food allergies and asthma have little to do with nut consumption. Friends from more traditional countries would tell me "what the heck? we don't have all these food allergies, like peanut allergies, at home."

I'm sure it has to do with much more than that. Perhaps, your article you linked that talks about insulin sensitivity and nut consumption could come into play and perhaps these people are consuming too many nuts and it's the insulin problems that have to do with developing food allergies and asthma. My friends from more traditional countries eat nuts, but they also have healthier diets back home with less crap that can affect your insulin levels. Perhaps insulin is a factor in this and it should not be blamed on nuts at all. According to your website, and one of the books you recommend, you seem to agree that insulin is a factor in much of the illness in North America today. I'm sure the imbalances cause all kinds of problems, and maybe too many nuts just push something that's already at the end of the cliff just enough to fall off, and they should not be blamed as the prime suspect.

Much like others say, peanuts are legumes, and I can't tolerate too many legumes or I get all bloated and irritable. I don't think we were intended to eat them. Also, peanuts and other nuts can often become contaminated with mould. As well, they should be consumed fresh if at all, because fats (especially good ones) go rancid and these rancid fats can definitely affect if the nuts have good or bad effects on the body.

So many things to take into consideration, it's not fair to say nuts cause asthma or allergies.

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luvbees — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 18:01:59 GMT

OK, don't get me wrong, I love my children VERY,VERY much and would do anything possible to keep them from harm....BUT I find exception to blaming everything that is wrong with our children on parents. If we vaccinate them then they are autistic it is our fault, if we don't vaccinate them and they get sick it is our fault. If they are ADHD then we fed them too much sugar, milk, wheat, etc, etc. If they have allergies then we MUST have fed them the "wrong" thing when they were babies or we ignorant mothers ate the wrong thing. Don't let them talk on cells phones, they will get cancer. Don't warm their food in the microwave, it destroys the good stuff in food and exposes them to dangerous radiation. Don't let them watch TV, it kills their brain cells. Send them outside BUT don't let them ride their bikes without full body armour and don't let them get too much sun, just the "perfect" amount. Don't let them get bitten, stung or even followed by any of the deadly insects flying around but heaven forbid DON'T spray them with insect repellent. Don't let them drink out of plastic, don't trust their doctors and the list goes on and on. What are we going to have on our hands in several years? A bunch of freaked out wimps sitting in the dark afraid of their own shadow? I am all about being diligent with my childrens health but somewhere you have to draw the line. It isn't alwaysour fault if our kids get sick and stop suggesting that it is. Let kids be kids just teach them to eat right, get plenty of kid exercise and LOVE, LOVE, LOVE them.

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kimkc — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 02:56:40 GMT

When I started reading about raw foods and their natural digestive enzymes, I started eating only raw nuts and nut butters rather than the cooked ones. I found out that raw nuts do not give me digestion problems or canker sores in my mouth. My daughter with autism (Asperger's) had too high omega 3's due to the flaxseed oil that I gave her as a supplement prior to seeing a DAN! doctor. To balance her 3's out with her low omega 6's, her DAN!/allergy doctor recommended peanut oil which he said does not have the peanut allergen in it. Her food allergy test indicated peanuts as an allergen but a low one. After replacing peanut butter with cashew butter (consumed once a week, if that), her food allergy test the following year indicated that cashews are on her allergy panel but as a low allergen along with peanuts. We still try to avoid peanuts and peanutbutter but do let her have cashews and other nuts on a rotation basis but have been trying to buy all raw nuts and nut butters.

Healthy, intelligent, raw vegans like Storm and Jinjee of The Garden Diet have great raw recipes including ones with raw nuts. They look 20 years younger than their "real" age and have 5 healthy, beautiful vegan children. Check out their website! I have learned to create easy raw salad dressings, smoothies, desserts, salads, main dishes, and healthy snacks. These raw foods fit right into my Aspie daughter's gluten-free, casein-free, soy-free diet and have allowed for more variety in her diet.

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bubblegumgloss — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 15:25:39 GMT

ok--I'm a bit confused about a statement in the article: "If you have most any disease, or any kind of insulin related problems, you will want to avoid all seeds and nuts except for flax, chia, and walnuts." Does anyone know if this is true? And why? I've been studying holistic nutrition for awhile, & have not run across any information like this. Also what about hempseeds? Those are supposed to be a perfect protein.

Another interesting thing; I have asthma, & my parents were told when I was born that I was allergic to milk, and the doctor recommended soymilk... yeah. Anyway, this was in 1969, so... basically, I was 3 when I first had an asthmatic episode & was diagnosed with asthma. Also, I am highly allergic to every animal with fuzz, fur, or feathers, no exceptions. Other allergies include a couple of dozen tress, types of grasses, molds, mildews, dust, melons, and many cleaning chemicals send me straight into an asthma attack. Of course, I have no idea why I have so many allergies, because also, my dad was an inside-the-house smoker my entire childhoodand beyond. But it's weird because neither parent has allergies at all to anything, and little brother either. Hmmmmmmmm.....

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higher health — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 14:30:58 GMT

Did you know the history of soy in our food supply? In 1917 the US government brought Charles E. Fearn over from England to establish the soy foods industry as part of the war effort. This had nothing to do with the health food industry (what little of it there was at the time) but it certainly does now! The company Fearn Soya Foods was purchased in 1949 by the same folks who founded NOW Foods - the Richard family! Thus began the push for soy in health food stores. The Richards sold Fearn in 1985 to Modern Products. So, what's their take on soy now? Look at the food side of the catalog. Too many people make too much money off mass production of soy to reverse the trend now!

re: Just Say No to Nuts During Pregnancy

webwitch6 — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 18:33:51 GMT

Sorry-but this article seems a bit off. The comments are much more informative.

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heatherj — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:30:18 GMT

I expect that research is complete hooey. One thing they did not take into account was the vaccination status of the participants. A couple of years ago, I read some pretty convincing research (link is in a computer that is currently in storage) that vaccines tend to sensitize children to foods that have proteins of the same molecular weight of the proteins in the vaccines given at the time. For example, if your child has the DTP vaccine & eats something that has proteins of the same molecular weight of the proteins in the vaccine (or, if breastfeeding, you eat such things), the child is more likely to come up with an allergy to that food. The proteins in several vaccines are apparently the same molecular weight as peanut proteins.

So...let's have a study on unvaccinated kids & mamas who didn't fall for the propaganda to get a flu shot during pregnancy!

My unvaccinated 14-month old loves nuts, has never been sick with so much as a sniffle, and doesn't seem to be allergic to anything (without any special effort to keep her away from germs, mind you--no shopping cart cover, no endless "washing" of hands with antibacterial gel, etc, just normal housekeeping and living). When her brother is born next month, I expect the same results, as we plan to keep using a system that seems to be working well.

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Homeopathy gal — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 17:29:26 GMT

One of my colleagues in homeopathy was wondering why so many peanut allergies. Even her grandson has it. She did some checking and said she found out they are using peanut oil (?) in vaccines. Does anyone know if there is any validity in that? It would make sense since there are so many vaccines they bombard infants and small children with. I wonder....

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peseta — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 16:30:32 GMT

seg said it well, and the abstract confirms that the results are preliminary. Dr M has a bad habit of publicizing preliminary findings, some positive, some negative like this. Probably peanuts will be found to be the culprit, since so few people eat many nuts.

Speaking of nuts, I see lots of claims about 'raw' almonds and cashews, though both are now heavily processed, and cashews were always cooked decades ago. False advertising by the raw crowd? Trader Joe's sells 'raw' almonds that never sprout, for a more popular example, though in general they are above the usual corporate morality.

And the article says nada, Dr M, about chia, flax, or any seeds, right? Since the conversion of ALA to EPA and DHA ranges from 2-15%, it's hard to accept a blanket statement about intrinsic metabolic inefficiencies. And does krill oil have any appreciable EPA? Krill get their DHA from algae, no?

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life coach andy — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 15:05:13 GMT

Walnuts are good food if consumed in moderation and its nonsense that you will gain weight eating them. But otherwise good article.

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The Get Real Diet — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:06:34 GMT

If these women had eaten only raw organic nuts and seeds and completely avoided peanuts the outcome of this study would be dramatically different

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mike4 — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 09:42:33 GMT

walnuts----all one needs for omega 3's, throw in some fresh ground flax and avacados(they rock) and one would not need processed krill oil or any other for that matter. One poster stated that krill was extracted with deadly hexane, anyone know if that is true? Maybe the good Dr. could clear it up.

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kristine_6 — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 08:55:38 GMT

I don't believe this article is contesting the nutritional of value of nuts under normal circumstances, just challenging the conventional wisdom on whether it's appropriate to eat them during pregnancy. Babies, in the world or in the womb, have very delicate, underdeveloped immune systems. New foods, particularly highly allergenic ones, must be introduced slowly and over long periods of time. Nuts are highly allergenic and, even worse, soy apparently imitates nuts when processed by the body, triggering the same kind of allergy as if a pregnant woman ate nuts all day long. So while consuming nuts occasionally during pregnancy may be fine, the omnipresence of soy in just about every prepared food we eat in the US is skewing the statistcs. Nut allergies do exist in Europe, but they are virtually unknown (although nut and other allergies are on the rise for the same reasons as in the US). It is unheard of to have to make nut-free cookies to bring to school or announce every ingredient on the dinner table for fear of unwittingly killing a guest. Why? Because Europeans eat more whole foods, and incidentally spend more time selecting, preparing, and enjoying their food. They simply do not consume as much prepared food, full of high frucose corn syrup and soy by-products and, as a result, have fewer allergies. So the advice is simple, eat real, whole foods instead of the processed garbage full of the by-products generated by an unsustainable profit-driven agricultural system that is bad for farmers and bad for your health.