What percentage of the babies would grow up obese without it?
Does it matter? We take folic acid even though most our babies won't have spina bifida..
Side effects? if it was a bit of nausea or the equivalent of anti deopressant side effects, I would say it was worth it for the value to the baby and society.
It might not be a "pill" but the Observer article predicted such an effect being available via supplements within 10 years. And I though "god that's amazing".
I do think at root here there's two things going on here of which I am suspicious - (1) natural is always best (not in any way always true or we'd be a society of polio, rickets, syphilis, people dying of pneumonia and, facial deformities, etc etc.
(2) what is harder to achieve is always best =Calvinist syndrome. Why CAN'T I just take a pill and be thin? Why do I have to do it the hard way?
I want to live in Varley's Six Worlds, where I can be thin, fat, male, female , beautiful or reptilian any day I want :-)
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Re: pushing my luck
Date: 2007-04-24 12:57 pm (UTC)Does it matter? We take folic acid even though most our babies won't have spina bifida..
Side effects? if it was a bit of nausea or the equivalent of anti deopressant side effects, I would say it was worth it for the value to the baby and society.
It might not be a "pill" but the Observer article predicted such an effect being available via supplements within 10 years. And I though "god that's amazing".
I do think at root here there's two things going on here of which I am suspicious - (1) natural is always best (not in any way always true or we'd be a society of polio, rickets, syphilis, people dying of pneumonia and, facial deformities, etc etc.
(2) what is harder to achieve is always best =Calvinist syndrome. Why CAN'T I just take a pill and be thin? Why do I have to do it the hard way?
I want to live in Varley's Six Worlds, where I can be thin, fat, male, female , beautiful or reptilian any day I want :-)