[blparent] Pregnancy and food (deception about tea)

[Jo Elizabeth Pinto]

Very interesting about the tanic acid.  Thank you for clarifying that.  I'll 
have to research it, since I'm on a quest to find out the things that are 
helpful and harmful to me now that I have been diagnosed with some serious 
health problems.  Thanks again, and I hope I didn't insult anybody over 
their religious beliefs.  I'm all for sticking to something that's 
important, as long as I'm truthful as best I can be in doing so.

Jo Elizabeth

"How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, 
compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of 
the weak and the strong.  Because someday in life you will have been all of 
these."--George Washington Carver, 1864-1943, American scientist

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From: "Kevin Athey" <familyathey at gmail.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 6:12 PM
To: "Blind Parents Mailing List" <blparent at nfbnet.org>
Subject: Re: [blparent] Pregnancy and food (deception about tea)

> First, I think it is a shame that someone lied to you. I didn't really
> pay attention to this post until I read about the coffee and tea. This
> caught my attention because I am latter-day saint. Now, I would like
> to think that this neighbor of yours was more of the exception than
> the rule because I don't believe in drinking tea or coffee but if I
> were going to refuse to help you find such a product I'd tell you the
> truth. However, I wouldn't refuse neither would any of the latter-day
> saint people that I know. It is your choice to drink eat or otherwise
> participate in anything as is it ours and while we don't agree I
> wouldn't have any problems at all helping you get what you needed or
> wanted.
> And in case you are curious it isn't the caffine as you suspected.
> There is actually a substance in tea and coffee (the stuff that makes
> them black) called tanic acid that is harmful to your body and this is
> the reason latter-day saints were commanded not to partake of it.
> I hope this explains it to you guys a little better.
> I didn't write this to excuse the very rude unchristian like lady who
> not only refused to help another but lied in the process.
> Have a great day!
>
> Kathy