I went to school in the 60's and 70's, I went to an all
girls school with 600 students. For tuck
shop we had meat pies, vanilla slices, chocolate eclairs
and on the way home from
school we'd stop at the local fish and chip shop and order
20 cents worth of chips and smother
them in salt and vinegar. There was one large girl in the
whole school. I remember her name and
her face because she was an oddity. I don't remember anyone
with diabetes, one girl in the
school died from a brain tumour and there was no one that
had a peanut or nut allergy. Not one of my friends had a
sibling or cousin, for that matter with Autism, Aspergers
or ADD. Everyone drank 250ml. of milk everyday at morning
tea and there wasn't a wheat or dairy allergy to hear
about.
My Mum was the best cook in town. I had three good meals
a day with snacks and always
dessert. My lunch, when I didn't have food from the school
shop, was a sandwich, homemade cake or biscuit and piece of
fruit. I got through my child hood and teenage years
without an antibiotic, pain killer or Bonjello, despite
getting all my teeth and breaking four bones.
Wow! Did that really happen; just 30 years ago life
seemed very different to what it is now.
What happened?
In the last 20 years diabetes has increased 300%, Type 1
Diabetes is on the increase amongst
children and teenagers. Cancer, in particular brain tumours
are the leading form of cancer
amongst children in Australia. Heart disease not only
affects the elderly but also the young.
Autism, Asperges, ADD and ADHD are destroying the basic
family unit. Asthma and allergies
restrict young lives.
Science has looked down the barrel of a microscope and
looked at the human body and how is
works in a very mechanistic (compartmental) way. They have
proclaimed over the years that
salt causes hypertension, sugar causes diabetes, butter
causes heart disease, eggs cause high
cholesterol, raw milk is dangerous and should be banned,
infant formulas are better then breast,
fruit and vegetables don't help prevent cancer and the list
goes on. Anything that was natural
they saw as a danger to human health. And so in their
naivety or was it their arrogance, science
and technology believed they could make things better, so
they made; margarine, egg substitute,
artificial sweeteners, modified milks and many more plastic
fantastic foods. For 25 to 30 years
the general public who has been bombarded with propaganda,
persuasive advertising and
untruths, have taken these foods into their homes and
mouths without question. Mark Twain
says; "What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know
it's what we know for sure that just
ain't so." Evidence is now mounting about the dangers of
these technology foods and parents
need to take heed.
At present many people are starved for knowledge amid a
glut of information. Who do you
believe? I believe many people who do things without too
much thought sometimes, feel
uncomfortable and unsure of what they are doing but
science, government and technology says
that this is best for the children, and everyone else is
doing it, so it must be right! So despite it
not feeling right we continue to feed technology foods,
vaccinate heavily, medicate without
evidence and compromise because it's easier to go with the
flow then to buck the system.
Our children in this decade are compromised, from the day
they are conceived. They're never
fully able to reach their true potential health wise as
they are bombarded with more chemicals
then ever before. But this doesn't need to be the case.
Education about the food we eat, the
vaccinations we give our children, the medications we dish
out to them and the product we put
on their skin as well as the cleaning products we use in
the home, can change the status of their
health, for the rest of their lives.
Knowledge and then action is the vital key. Starting
right is paramount. If a newborn is given the
right start in life then the rest of their life can be
without complication, without sickness, mental
illness and obesity. The key is to start right and continue
to do the right thing.
A blinding fact is that despite all the science and
technology our children are not healthy. 41 percent of
Australian children have life long illness. Disease is
ramped amongst our babies, toddlers, children and
adolescents. What seems so obvious to me is that if you
don't want your children to be like the rest of societies
children and you'd rather them like the children of the
60's and 70's, then don't do what the general population is
doing today. Do something different!
I believe more and more people are realizing that breast
feeding is best, but what about what
you feed your baby once they want to eat. The process can
be different depending on who you
are listening to or reading. In my opinion the most
important thing is to feed your baby, child or
teenager, foods that nature provides. Back in the 60's and
70's the food I ate including that at
the tuck shop was made with real food. My vanilla slice had
real milk, sugar, eggs, butter and
flour these days a vanilla slice could be made with
hydrogenated vegetable oil, egg substitute,
milk solids, mineral salts, colours, bakers flour, high
fructose syrup, preservative to name but a
few ingredients. The food still looks the same a vanilla
slice still looks like a vanilla slice but the
fundamental ingredients are nothing alike.
There has been scare mongering in the scientific and
food industry about food. Butter, sugar,
salt, raw milk, breast milk, eggs, red meat were
mechanistically looked at, by looking at the
components. For instance, eggs had cholesterol so the
conclusion was that they caused high
cholesterol, never has there been such an untruth about a
food. All foods that were deemed bad
were looked at mechanistically through the component parts,
so if there was saturated fat
present in a food then it was deemed bad for arteries and
heart. The food was not looked at
holistically which means that the many components that make
up the food work synchronistically in the body to create
energy and health.
Health is a step by step process, beginning with an
education and an intuition about what is the
truth about the foods and health directives we should have
for our children. Be aware of
everything you put into your babies and children's bodies;
food, vaccinations, medications and
what you put onto your babies and children's bodies.
