Posts by Amy Gale
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This is the part where I confess that for quite some time I thought that Bluff oysters weren't real oysters.
Ask me how old I was when I figured out that the Elgin Marbles were not a surprisingly important children's toy.
On second thoughts, don't.
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If the underlying message of the flour supplementation proposal is that women in possession of all the facts can't be trusted to care for their own health, and/or that their health is only important with respect to their status as incubators, then I really need to get to the Women's XV clubhouse and start cutting up oranges.
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Which is to say, there is no need for any sort of census to determine anyone's plans. Either people are trying, in which case they go off and get their free vitamins, or they are not, in which case they are using contraceptives (or not having sex, which works too).
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Amy, how?
What do you mean, how? You go to your doctor or pharmacy and say "give me vitamins, please".
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I have had a flash of brilliance. Brilliance, I tell you.
We can partition the population of women in the fertile age range into two groups: those who are trying for or open to pregnancy, and those who are not.
The first group can be directly provided with prenatal vitamins. Yay! Free vitamins!
To cover the second group, the obvious thing to adulterate is...contraceptives.
Yes, still holes in coverage (fnar fnar). Are they any bigger than the holes in bread coverage, though?
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Because pregnant women need to be careful of their caffeine intake? :)
But we're specifically talking about supplementation that needs to start before conception and continue through the early period in which pregnancy may not yet be identified. Coffee drinkers will be, well, drinking coffee.
There could be a better option, obviously. I just vaguely suspect that many more young women drink coffee than eat bread on any given day.
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[coffee is] The number one blurgifier for morning sickness-suffering pregnant women, in my experience anyway.
Hm.
What about fortifying coffee plus whatever people take when they are blurgified? (peppermint lifesavers? or is that just me?)
Once people recognized that they had morning sickness and didn't just feel generally barfy, they would presumably switch to direct supplementation.
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You want chocolate snobbery? Course you do. Now you can buy Schoc on-line.
I'll see your chocolate snobbery and raise you: I don't especially care for Schoc. Their shells are too thick for flavor balance, the chocolate is nothing amazing, and they don't seem to pay all that much attention to detail (eg, surface bubbles. pah.).
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Practically every Western Country fortifies it bread in this way, including the home of freedom and the conspiracy theory the United States.
High on my list of things that NZ should not aspire to is having bread like the US.
Quality issues aside, I'd be inclined to ask whether there's any record that homework has really been done on the rate of bread-eating among women in the fertile age range. Because if I had to guess, I'd estimate it as: pretty low.
My top pick for a fortification candidate would probably be coffee.
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Smith and Caughey's (who apparently now have a brand called Not Your Daughter's Jeans)
I tried some of these on once. They were blah. I'm not convinced the control top was doing anything in particular, either.
Re DD pushup, you might try Marks and Spencer. Depending on the degree of pushup you want, anyway. I mean, if you want so much that you are in danger of suffocating, that's probably a specialty thing.
My winter coat is from the 60s. However, it's also black wool. Do I feel boring right now? Yes I do.