less gullible, had an education in health care, understood body functions, and went to a Linus Pauling seminar at UVIC.
Plus I had grandparents who lived kosher, and lived to be into their late 80's and 90's, with no health problems, at all...as excellent role models, nutritionally.
... if I had been a practising Jew, or Quaker, there would have been no issues about child endangerment. ;)