-Jr Family Blog

I finally wrote this out for a family member to avoid hurt feelings and wasting her money since she loves to buy us things and can’t read our minds.
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The paragraphs under the links are from Dr. Joseph Mercola and Dr. Kendra Degen Pearsall’s 2006 book, “Sweet Deception: Why Splenda, Nutrasweet, and the FDA May Be Hazardous to Your Health”, page 170.

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Catherine is the cheapest member of our family, unless you count David (right now his only costs are what it takes to feed me, and my pills). We’ve bought very few clothes for her since people give us so many clothes - friends, family, strangers. (more…)

Please email Corinne at corinne_book@dashjr.org if you can help with the following more than praying:

I was reading Sheila Kitzinger’s book “The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth” this morning when I realized how offensive parts of it are to us. I am writing to ask for your prayers and any other help you can give me so that we can publish a pregnancy and childbirth book written by and for Catholic mothers.

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US Delegation at United Nations Scolds 
UN Agency for Promoting Abortion
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I need to close most of the tabs on my Konqueror window so here are some links for my benefit, if not yours:
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I finished this book several days ago and we are leaving town today so I will write a quick review now and pack my laptop. It was copyrighted in 2001 and published by Jeremy P. Tarcher/Putnam, a member of Penguin Putnam Inc. in New York. The full title is “Trust Us, We’re Experts! How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with your Future”. I enjoyed reading it for all of the details about companies, events, schemes, and toxins like:
the third-party PR technique
the precautionary principle
industry-funded science and its skewed findings
Edward Bernays, a nephew of Freud
companies that poison and kill people and get away with it
the military and science in the US, and other funding
genetically modified foods from Monsanto

When I wrote the authors about something I thought they left out (the breast cancer and abortion link), one of them wrote me back! It is a good book for detail if you have plenty of time and patience, and I recommend it for its history at least.

1. The unborn baby cannot verbally complain about food he is fed. He cannot refuse to eat what the mother passes on to him.

2. No diapers to change yet!

3. The mother can sleep for a few months. If she keeps herself hydrated and eats right, she should not have a big problem with going to the bathroom a lot at night.

4. The mother has a huge reason to eat healthy: no smoking, no drinking alcohol, no taking drugs (this includes most if not all pharmaceutical drugs), no junk food, less fast food, no caffeine . . . more healthy food, more clean air, more water, more vitamins.

5. People like to give things to pregnant people. I could list a lot of things people gave to us during both pregnancies and I might if someone asks in a comment.

6. No cumbersome menstrual cycles for the mother for several more months, especially if she will breastfeed her baby.

7. Many dreams, and a great time to become closer to God in time for the baby’s Holy Baptism (for babies who will be raised as Roman Catholics).

I used to store everything in plastic and eat out of plastic. Now when I come home from the grocery store, I open the cereal and pour it out of the plastic and into clean glass containers. I take snacks with us in small glass containers. I have been rinsing used glass spaghetti sauce jars for a long time and putting rubber bands and twistie ties in them, and now I also put string cheese and vegetables in them for the fridge. Instead of wrapping ground beef in aluminum foil or plastic, today I put about four pounds of beef in a rinsed metal serving dish and froze it that way. (Note: it was very hard to separate the beef when I wanted to use it, so now I freeze individual pounds on small plates in the freezer.) I can’t seem to get plastic out of the kitchen completely but I am sure trying. Glass has no chemicals that come off onto food when heated or stored for long periods of time so that is why I put snacks in glass for car rides that are likely to get warm - remember that the car’s temperature can get quite high when you park it and leave it. I bought three glass containers in a set from the thrift store and it is nice and thick and sturdy and I have not broken any glass in my home. The openings are big enough that I can stick my hand in to feel for crumbs when I rinse them out between uses. I do keep it up and out of reach of my toddler and I watch her closely when she carries the little container with her snacks so that she will be safe.