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To: mph who wrote (13452)	2/27/2006 6:09:07 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541599

I don't know enough about the data about condom distribution to comment on condoms. If the public health departments make the assessment, on valid data, that condom distribution reduces disease, and doesn't unduly raise rates of intercourse, or lower the age of first intercourse, and if doctors believe this is the best practice to protect teens, then I'm for it. I know a lot about breast feeding data, and very little about the data surrounding condom distribution but it would depend completely on what best practices are for protecting children. I think what I'm trying to get at here, is that folks in special relationships- folks in our schools, folks in our health care system, have a special duty to provide for our welfare that other entities do not have. So while your grocery store or Target or Walmart can market all manner of crap to you, your health care provider and your school system should be looking out for your welfare, before they look out for the welfare of a business that just wants to sell you something that may not even be good for you. That's one reason I'm so interested in school nutrition. I feel the public schools have been completely negligent with regard to childhood nutrition.