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=== Dietary ===
 
=== Dietary ===
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====Fetal Alcohol Syndrome====
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Not discovered until 1973 by American physicians, fetal alcohol syndrome results from harm done to the unborn child in pregnancy due to the mother drinking alcohol.  The Bible, thousands of years earlier, forbade the mother of [[Samson]] from drinking alcohol while pregnant, so that he could become a powerful leader:
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:<sup>3</sup>The angel of the Lord appeared to her and said, “You are barren and childless, but you are going to become pregnant and give birth to a son. <sup>4</sup>'''''Now see to it that you drink no wine or other fermented drink''''' and that you do not eat anything unclean. <sup>5</sup>You will become pregnant and have a son whose head is never to be touched by a razor because the boy is to be a Nazirite, dedicated to God from the womb. He will take the lead in delivering Israel from the hands of the Philistines.”<ref>Judges 13:3-5 (NIV).</ref>
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====Animal Toxicity====
 
====Animal Toxicity====
 
[[File:David Macht.jpg|thumbnail|right||200px|Dr. David Macht]]
 
[[File:David Macht.jpg|thumbnail|right||200px|Dr. David Macht]]
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