hi gary orlando,

I'm am unclear on your position about animal products but it sure
sounds
like you think they should be avoided, is that it?  Do you think that
dairy
should always be avoided?  I am uncertain as to what you think kids
should
or should not have other than you think they should not have dairy or
flesh
foods, that is your position, right?

I assume then, you believe kids should not be breast fed?

If you think kids should not eat anything but vegan, which is what it
sounds like, then you would feed them no breast milk from their
biological
mother either.

Humans and other mammals all breast feed their children if they are
able.
One of the reasons is for the calcium in the dairy.  To think that a
mammal

does not need this is unreasonable and goes against any logic.

One thing I know also is that many people from Asia immigrate to
occidental
countries where foods higher in calcium are available.  Their children
are
usually much taller then anyone in their known genetic ancestry and
the
logical explanation is because the calcium in the diet allows for
growth
and strength in bones not possible in Asia. While not only from dairy,
if
kids have some dairy it is a fact that its calcium will aid in bones
and
teeth development.

You assume I know nothing about foods and their affects on the body.
I
will take a position here.  You act as if I know nothing about this,
about
raw and whole foods diets.  I do know something about food, vegan
diets,
lacto-ovo vegeterian diets, and many other kinds of diets.  The truth
is
our knowledge base as human beings is incomplete with regards to food,
even
when you take into account the western research, the TCM approaches,
raw
food diets, natural foods diets, and no one displine or one person has
all
the answers as to what creates optimum health.  The truth is that
nearly
every type of diet carries some downside risk.

I have been on various natural foods diets myself, I have studied and
read
about natural health care, am a licensed health care professional who
has
used only natural methods for treatment, for many years now.  I have
over
the years and treated serious illness uses only natural foods.  An
example,
very recently (in the past couple of months) an elderly person in my
family
recently had a hypertensive spike of 70 points due to stress and an
emotional reaction to multiple family deaths, and she was in a very
high
risk range for a couple of weeks, meaning she was headed right for a
stroke, but with changes in diet towards raw foods including cutting
out
many types of cooked foods, this has been brought back to normal over
a
period of just a few weeks.

And also, I have given hundreds, or perhaps thousands of patient
treatments, many of them quite successful.

And I can tell you from that practical experience, which is often more
important than something one reads in a book, that I know that many
people
cannot stay healthy and well and be at optimum health on a strictly
vegan
diet for years at a time.  I know this because many of them have come
to me
for help and not most, but all of them who have sought specific help
for
this have told me they have been been helped with the changes I have
helped
them make into their diets.

From my view the real issue is there are many folks who are new to raw
foods and go to some extremes and injure their bodies or damage their
health.  I would hate to see someone damage his or her health because
of a
taking a non-negotiable position about food.

regards
RJL