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I am sad to report that there are still people in this world who are actively doing whatever they can to prevent women from
hearing about this health information regarding the function of nutrition in the "toxemia syndrome" and other complications
of pregnancy.
In May 2007, I was forbidden from giving out this information on a pregnancy forum for mothers interested in health and fitness
in pregnancy. The reason given was that that board had its own experts and their moderators did not want to hear from me
as another "expert" (quotation marks were theirs).
It seems that yesterday (February 14, 2008) I was banned from another pregnancy forum. I was not given any notice of this
banning, or any reasons for why it was done, or any opportunity to correct whatever I was doing incorrectly. I was trying
my best to comply with their rules, while still telling moms what they could google for to find the information that might
help them.
Naturally, I am very sad to have been treated with this level of disrespect. But even more than that, I am very, very sad
for the moms out there who are being denied access to the knowledge of the full range of their options.
I am also very sad to taste in this small way what Dr. Brewer must have experienced in his 50 years of trying to communicate
this important information with his peers and the general public. The realization of how painfully exhausting that must have
been, year after year, for so many, many years, is mind-boggling.
Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis was ridiculed for his assertion that hand-washing would save the lives of women in the postpartum wards
of the hospitals of his day. His evidence was suppressed and defamed until years after his death, when the invention of the
microscope proved the existence of microorganisms that could contribute to illness and disease. It is one of my deepest desires
that some day soon there will be some new kind of technology that will finally reveal incontrovertibly, once and for all,
the validity of this research done by Brewer as he walked in the footprints of Hamlin, Strauss, Burke, and Ferguson, researchers
who went before him on the same path. When that happens, we will finally be able to put the brakes on this disease that needlessly
takes the lives of thousands of mothers and babies every year.
See here for a timeline of the development of the Brewer Diet
See here to better understand the evolution of the mainstream medical perspective on nutrition and salt in pregnancy
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