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alexseanchai) wrote2015-12-30 03:34 pm
alexseanchai) wrote2015-12-30 03:34 pm
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My folks, bar youngest sister, all went to see Star Wars. Obviously I can't go. Koff koff hack hack koff. So I grabbed one of the books I've been meaning to read. Spiritual Foodways: An Ecofeminist Perspective on Our Sacred Journey With Food, Teresa Marbut. Sounds fascinating, right?
In the introduction, Marbut outs her son as autistic, ADHD, schizophrenic, and bipolar. And then asserts (no footnotes on this assertion; at this point in the introduction, there have been eighty footnotes, so it's not that she is having trouble with the concept of citing sources) "Each of these conditions has been linked--as probable, partial causal factors--with the foods I ate as a child, the foods I ate before I got pregnant with him, and the foods I ate during my pregnancy;" also the BPA in his baby bottles and the processed foods he himself ate when small.
I am really pissed off at this author.
In the introduction, Marbut outs her son as autistic, ADHD, schizophrenic, and bipolar. And then asserts (no footnotes on this assertion; at this point in the introduction, there have been eighty footnotes, so it's not that she is having trouble with the concept of citing sources) "Each of these conditions has been linked--as probable, partial causal factors--with the foods I ate as a child, the foods I ate before I got pregnant with him, and the foods I ate during my pregnancy;" also the BPA in his baby bottles and the processed foods he himself ate when small.
I am really pissed off at this author.
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It really does sound like a fascinating book other than that little gem, but I've been reading Narnia fanfics for two hours instead of this book because I'm too aggravated to go back to the book.