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Maybe children who instinctively shrink from a needle are being wiser than the adults who cajole them to tolerate it.

I had blood drawn for the very first time last year, aged 75. It wasn't as bad as I had feared, but it was unpleasant and I don't want to repeat the experience. The phlebotomist and the nurses whom I told were incredulous. An old man who had never had blood drawn! Almost as remarkable as an old man with no prescriptions. (Me, too).

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"I’ve always had dental problems (another day) so I’ve had scores of such injections..."

Dr Yeadon, if I may make a suggestion, I have found from personal experience that when I stopped eating grain products (breads, cereals, etc.) I also stopped getting caries. Even though I still occasionally eat sweet things such as chocolate.

I got the idea after reading Dr Weston A. Price's "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration". If you haven't read it, you should. Published in 1939 and resolutely ignored ever since! Dr Price, a successful dentist, found that a "primitive" diet without refined grain foods could almost completely prevent caries. The news was not so much suppressed as ignored - after all, where's the money in that?

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