> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paleolithic Eating Support List
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gale
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 10:21 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Vegan girl
> 
> A vegan couple in Virginia were incarerated for failing to give their
> baby proper nutrition.  Apparently she couldn't generate milk and they
> refused to use anything that was an animal product.  They gave the baby
> apple juice and soy milk and it died (diarrhea and malnutrition).  ....

> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Ashley Moran <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 5:45:32 PM
> Subject: Re: Vegan girl
> 
> On 11 Jun 2008, at 22:12, Inci Willard wrote:
> > http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article4087977.ece
> > Hopefully parents will be charged for their action.
> 
> A few years back I knew a guy who had a son about 5 at the time, he
> was in the kids group of my old kung fu club.  The boy was irritable,
> and always seemed a bit slow.  He couldn't concentrate and could never
> do things as well as the other children.
> 
> Turns out his dad was vegetarian, and fed his son a vegetarian diet
> too.  I'm still convinced that was the reason he was so behind. ....
Ashley

I think you're probably right, Ashley. I know a former vegan woman whose
vegan-fed sons had similar problems. She suffered from Grave's disease
(hyperthyroidism) herself, and other health problems. When she tried giving
up wheat after I provided info on the connection between wheat and
hyperthyroidism, her symptoms quickly improved and within months her Grave's
(a supposedly incurable disease of unknown cause) went into complete
remission and has remained so. Unfortunately, her older son was violently
opposed to giving up his cherished wheat foods to which he had become
thoroughly addicted, and she did not have the strength of will to wean him
from the toxic wheat, so his health problems continued.

A cousin of mine adopted a vegetarian diet to please his vegan wife and in
less than five years developed "juvenile" (type 1) diabetes while in his
early thirties. Their vegetarian-fed child also developed type 1 diabetes.
Contrast this with Ray Audette, whose type 1 diabetes went into remission
after adopting a Paleo diet and remained so for over a decade, and was still
in remission at the time of his last activity in this forum.