Comments on: Raising Healthy Children

By: JINI

JINI — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 23:36:08 +0000

Here’s the stats on 1 in 2 overall cancer risk for males, 1 in 3 for females:

http://www.cancer.org/Cancer/CancerBasics/lifetime-probability-of-developing-or-dying-from-cancer

By: Pete

Pete — Sat, 26 Mar 2011 18:44:01 +0000

Ok, take off the tinfoil hat for a moment and realize that you don’t have solid proof to back any of this up. “1 in 2 will get cancer”. Complete and utter bullshit. I searched all over and could not find a single bit of evidence that supported that statement. You’re a crazy hypochondriac making herself feel better with antioxidants and snake oil. Also remember, everyone on the planet develops cancer, we are all cancer survivors.

By: Scot

Scot — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 07:58:51 +0000

Four words: You’re all paranoid Luddites.

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Fri, 09 Apr 2010 20:35:41 +0000

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By: Una St.Clair

Una St.Clair — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 05:27:25 +0000

Hi Jini – yes, everything you say I have had days and days where I feel exactly the same. It is even worse now that my children are older and I truly can’t keep them from playing at the friends house loaded with wireless gadgets, or going to UBC which is swimming in Wi-Max. I am actually looking for a large acreage out of EMR range to start a nature school/retreat as I can’t just sit here and feel that there is nothing I can do. My nature is also fun, alive, joyful and adventurous. Since I have been contemplating these issues, most specifically the one I can control the least, which is the all pervasive microwave radiation from wireless technologies, I have become sad, worried and suffer from nights of worrying in the dark about all our futures. Where we have choices, we must exercise those choices and speak up. I am committed to persevering in spreading information about the harm from microwave radiation, specifically in all the places that children congregate. That is my area of deepest concern, and I do a bit every day. To give up trying to make the world better is to accept death, not just of body but spirit. Keep speaking out – it is people like you that create change.

By: pants

pants — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:27:37 +0000

you try and control what is within your control, everything else is beyond your reach. If you keep and enjoy a happy mind you will have a happy body to enjoy. If you are screwed up mentally – then so will your body!! Only Salmon can swim upstream and when it reaches the destination, it dies anyway….. so why are you trying to swim upstream. You have one life, live it well, enjoy it and do your best. How many diseases are genetically controlled and how can you change your genes – worrying will surely not help the cause. Next you will be wishing for all cars and planes be banned as they create pollution, all medical diagnostic equipment be banned as the produce radiation..etc….Is it time again for horse and buggy!!!!!!!

By: Nicole

Nicole — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 16:28:33 +0000

I’m answering more generally…not just about food & environmental choices, but about any life choice.

I think it’s the age-old question when you want to follow a different path than most people are…and you don’t want your children squeezed into the “most people” mold. How do you accomplish that?

I do think, in the end, kids have to have their own “why” for following the path less-travelled…especially if the highway everyone else is on looks like it’s more “free” and more fun. I think that means reaching their hearts and minds…I think that can’t happen if our children don’t respect us. I think you earn respect, among other ways, by walking your talk and by being in charge in a fair way.

Not that I’m saying I know how to accomplish all this in any kind of foolproof way. I’m figuring it out, too…and it remains to be seen how my own kids will “turn out”. Also, no one’s perfect, so you can come up with great ideas that you’re incapable of executing perfectly. Still, those are the tracks my thoughts are running in.

I love hearing from older people, who’ve successfully raised families, about parenting…so I’m hoping you’ll get some comments like that here, too.

By: Corrie

Corrie — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 10:04:40 +0000

My sentiments ——- EXACTLY!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Why is health now something we have to fight for and are made to feel like aliens because we are trying to do what is best for our kids? Love the article…..don’t tell too many people about New Zealand ;0)

By: Carl

Carl — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 06:28:33 +0000

Yeah Jini, I hear you. So much to think (and worry) about. EMF’s, GMO’s, Pesticides. Good that you took the opportunity to vent. And somehow, it’s imperative that we carve out an existence where we connect with the love and joy that’s available – if we think about this stuff 7×24, we’ll go nuts.

By: Seth

Seth — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:49:10 +0000

I really identify with what you’re expressing here.

Your words conjure a sense of admiration for me like no one else’s, and many of the topics you’re bringing here right now are daily points of conversation between Caitlin and I.

It’s unbelievable that people in every type of community there is in our world are not coming together in a unified effort to prevent all of this suffering to continue. I’ve felt this way for as long as I can remember, I’ll never understand why seeing me go through my serious illness wasn’t the “canary call” for everyone who saw it. The friends and family were more content to plan a funeral than to make so much as the slightest effort to intervene in the process of illness.

Eventually the work you’ve done came to my attention, and with it all of the others who were as willing to heal as I had been. Healing like this is something that only sick people seem to be able to understand how to do. I don’t know how the masses can see people wasting away and not feel like they’re next in line, but at least I know I’m not alone.

I’m 25 and Caitlin’s 22, and we’ve made every effort possible to minimize our risk from the modern environment. Day in and day out we are overburdened by the weight of being the only people we know anywhere willing to do this for ourselves. There’s only so much that two pairs of hands can comfortably do, and while we’ve got to the point that growing most of our produce isn’t a problem there’s no time left to make for any kind of ranching.

Balancing the amount of effort that it takes to live with minimal harm to ourselves with the amount of effort it takes to earn a substantial enough income to do so in the first place is a never ending tug-o-war.

Reading a blog like this is comforting. At least there’s other people who are as aware of the dilemmas we’re all facing. 150 acres in south america probably isn’t the answer..