A struggle with weight is such a common experience now that we forget that it was not always like this. When you look at photographs from 50 years ago, or even 30 years ago, something stands out: ordinary people were a healthy body weight. Our grandmothers were not ... MORE...
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The Truth About Children’s Health: The Comprehensive Guide to Understanding, Preventing, and Reversing Disease by Robert Bernardini
1 CommentI have been looking for an all-inclusive book about children's health and finally have found it. Robert Bernardini covers every topic that relates to raising a healthy child, from how to make your own baby formula to why we have violence in schools. Beginning with a report on the status of ... MORE...
While driving home from dropping kids at school one day I was following a talk back discussion on Radio National about the pressures of modern family living; particularly the supposed tussle between loving one’s children and loving one’s partner. One woman spoke about being in love with her husband and ... MORE...
Jordan’s story of healing from Crohn’s Disease in his book, The Maker's Diet was the beginning of our whole family’s ticket to health. Jordan tells how his severe bout of Crohn's Disease led him all over the world to try various diets, medications and therapies to no avail. His amazing ... MORE...
Author and fermentation fetishist, Sandor Katz, considers fermented foods to be an important part of his healing as well as the healing of our planet. His book, Wild Fermentation doubles as a cookbook and manifesto on “cultural” rehabilitation - the return from cultural and political homogenisation to social ... MORE...
There seem to be no bounds to clever and innovative ways of changing children’s behaviour. Common approaches span anything from spanking, time outs, Magic 1, 2, 3, to positive discipline and offering rewards. The commonality of these “techniques” are that they begin with the aim of controlling, manipulating or altering ... MORE...
What happens when a fat man who should have been a stand-up comic loses over 150 pounds and then writes about it? You get a book that is funny, sad, insightful, interesting, readable and inspirational. What happens when a fat man wakes up to the fact that the only way to ... MORE...
The medicalisation of birthing and child rearing mid last century signaled a violent departure from what was, by comparison, more instinctive infant parenting. My own mother was told she would 'spoil' me if she didn't leave me, at six weeks of age, to cry myself to sleep for days on end, ... MORE...
Imagine your best friend is making a film about your life, he's been filming you for 25 years and is finally telling your story just as it comes to fruition. Imagine he is an extremely talented film maker who has produced and directed ground breaking films and award winning documentaries ... MORE...
Many of us have these secret dreams. Dreams that don't fit into our current experience but we can't get them out of our hearts. Dreams of a life without alienation. Where we live close to our relatives but not in their laps. Where the daily drudgery of traffic is replaced with ... MORE...
