Study finds WIC participants using herbs
Quotes from the article I, personally, find disturbing:
“Nutrition professionals and WIC educators have hesitated to talk about herbs for children because they feared that it would encourage acceptance and, perhaps, cause people to start using them.”
Well, yes, I can see why WIC educators wouldn’t want to talk about herbs. I mean, why use something that’s been used for thousands of years when there’s that brand new pharmaceutical to be prescribed?
“Although most of the herbs that the participants reported giving to children were those with relatively low risk, the effects of long term use and interactions with prescription and over-the-counter medications are unknown.”
As opposed to the long term effects of those lovely prescriptions and over-the-counter medications— like Tylenol, or Motrin, or antibiotics. Those couldn’t possibly cause any long-term problems. Could they?
