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| We all want our children to grow up strong, healthy and happy. What then, when we have a child with special needs? ...more |
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| I received Richard Louv’s new book the day I received the news that I was to become a father for the first time. The book, 'Last Child in the Woods, Saving our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder', is a timely reminder of the challenges that lie ahead ...more |
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| Trees are incredible but it’s so easy to take them for granted. Without them, life would be very different — there would be no chocolate for a start! We pass trees every day but how often do we really take a close look at them? Close your eyes and picture ...more |
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| So how do we help our children to interact with the natural world and not be consumed by the virtual reality of the digital age? Take the initiative and interact with nature. ...more |
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| Drink up! A cup of tea is the savvy mum’s answer to chilling out your nerves while buffing up your health. Studies showing tea’s health benefits continue to pile up. ...more |
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| A Kindred world exclusive. On the eve of an historic, billion-dollar world vaccination campaign, a leaked transcript ignites questions of vaccine safety and research corruption. ...more |
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| Symptoms that may be helped by craniosacral treatments include feeding difficulties, colic, irritability, poor sleep, developmental difficulties, emotional distress, and ear and sinus problems... ...more |
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| Sara and her family are one of thousands of families who have discovered successful treatments for their children's autism and shared their successes with other parents and researchers at the Autism Research Institute. ...more |
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| I went home and cried all night. In the morning I rang and cancelled the appointment. That was the beginning of my new consciousness and the search for answers as how best to nurture this child and do what felt right to me. ...more |
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| Do our policy-makers know what is best for our families? Is their rhetoric on providing a ‘head start in life’ with early day care based on solid research, or is it more about serving their political party’s socio-economic agenda? ...more |
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| Being informed is the best way to have a good childbirth. Here, the American Foundation for Maternal and Child Health provides some basic information to support the pregnant couple to make wise choices when confronted with over zealous health professional ...more |
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| Obstetricians have turned birth into a surgical procedure and done damage to women’s bodies and now suggest the solution is to promote yet even more radical and aggressive surgery: caesarean section. ...more |
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| Each month the moon moves through all twelve constellations of the zodiac in turn. This is referred to as the moon’s sidereal cycle and forms the basis of the Biodynamic calendar. ...more |
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| For nearly two years, we have been hearing reports of chickens, migratory birds and humans dying from an aggressive form of influenza, called avian, or bird, flu. But what really is bird flu? ...more |
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| Western culture has built an entire system of care — obstetrics — around the belief a woman is not able to successfully birth on her own. ...more |
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| There is little doubt that our kids have a greater susceptibility to toxic chemicals. Everyday we expose our children to hundreds of different chemicals in an array of household products and yet remain puzzled as to why they get sick. ...more |
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| Most parents do not realise how a circumcision is performed. The baby’s arms and legs are immobilised and the genital area is scrubbed to prepare for the operation. Then the foreskin is removed, usually without an anaesthetic. ...more |
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| Alice, the mother of a seven-year-old son, Nathan, recently visited my office for a counseling session. Nathan had reportedly been different and difficult from the beginning. ...more |
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| Rainbow Food is a fresh approach to eating for the whole family. Rainbow Food is designed to restore our original innocent relationship with food. It is practical, easy to use, and is beneficial to the emotional body as well as the physical body. ...more |
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| If you’re like most women you probably didn’t give your pelvic floor a second thought until you were pregnant. Even then, if you neither leaked nor did specific pelvic floor work to prepare for birth you may have remained blissfully unaware. ...more |
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| • Children are born with Down’s Syndrome approximately one in 700 births.
• It is a misconception to think that children with Down’s Syndrome are born to women over 35 years.
• Two-thirds of all children with Down’s Syndrome are born to mothers under 35 ...more |
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| I feel passionately about preconception and fertility awareness as it immediately affects not only us but the future generation. As a health professional for over 25 years I have noticed the definite decline in my patients’ overall health, wellbeing and f ...more |
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| Each day we participate in a vast global industry that wields huge consequences to the health of the planet, the animals and to ourselves.
That industry is agriculture. Peter Singer and Jim Mason reveal the politics on our plates in an extract from their ...more |
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| The global price of both coffee and cocoa beans has fallen; however; profit margins for major coffee and chocolate companies have soared.
In recent years, the coffee industry has been transformed from a managed market where governments played an active r ...more |
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| Giving birth in ecstasy: This is our birth right and our body's intent. Mother Nature, in her wisdom, prescribes birthing hormones that take us outside (ec) our usual state (stasis), so that we can be transformed on every level as we enter motherhood.
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| Practicing naturopathy in my small community has allowed me to watch the local children grow into teenagers. The kids that I once treated for chicken pox are now coming in with problems that seem to affect their older age group. One of these illnesses is ...more |
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| Page 2 of Going Local by Helena Norberg-Hodge
For virtually the whole of human history most human cultures have relied on food produced within a reasonable distance. The logic is unassailable: locally grown food is fresher, and so tastier and more nutrit ...more |
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| World wide community gardens are springing up and with them a growing sense of community, of belonging. Local food, being responsible for and engaged in food production is transforming communities, bringing people together and breaking down the barriers. ...more |
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| The first documented use of specific homoeopathic medicines to prevent specific infectious diseases was in 1801. The method is called Homoeoprophylaxis (HP).
In 1801 Dr Samuel Hahnemann, the founder of homoeopathy, wrote an essay titled The Cure and Prev ...more |
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| Circumcision — ten years ago I had trouble spelling the word. I would stumble over the pronunciation of it, had I cause to use it, which I rarely did. Then Marilyn Milos entered my life through our founding meeting of the Alliance for Transforming the Liv ...more |
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| The products in your bathroom are much more dangerous than you may think. In fact, there could be a potentially lethal cocktail of ingredients lurking inside...
You would hardly expect that what you put on your body to cleanse, hydrate and rejuvenate y ...more |
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| Children have a unique constitutional type. According to the Ayurvedic theory of doshas everything in the universe is comprised of different proportions of space, air, fire, water and earth. ...more |
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| The Kindred continuum of principle and manifesto recognises a fundamental but often overlooked aspect of children’s health and wellbeing — to protect them from exposure to toxic environments. ...more |
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| The world of nappies can be daunting for new parents, so we have supplied this page as a glossary of terms. ...more |
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| From the day our children are born, mothers take on a nurturing and caring role. This does not change even as our children get older. We will swap nappy changes and breastfeeding with supporting our children when they fall out with their best friend ...more |
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| Martial arts can be one of the best things a child could do to prepare him or herself for life.
Rather than an end unto itself, it provides a strong and supportive foundation for children as they move into
other aspects of their lives, be it other sport ...more |
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| A relatively new principle for guiding human activities, to prevent harm to the environment and to human health has been emerging during the past ten years. It is called the ‘principle of precautionary action’ or the ‘precautionary principle’ for short. A ...more |
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| Nearly 90 per cent of ingredients used in cosmetics and personal care products have not been safety tested for human health effects. However, some ubiquitous ingredients such as parabens have been shown to be estrogenic. ...more |
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| According to industry estimates, on any given day an average consumer may use as many as 25 different cosmetic and personal care products, including shampoo, nail polish, aftershave and lotion, containing more than 200 different chemical compounds.
A c ...more |
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| Breast cancer rates have been climbing steadily in industrialised countries since the 1940s, amounting to more than one million cases per year worldwide, even though billions of dollars have been spent on breast cancer research, including millions of do ...more |
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| In the name of removing wrinkles and lines, not only are most cosmetics not good for you, reports Alf Orpen; in fact, they may even speed up the ageing process.
Out of Paris, New York, London and Rome continuously come sensational ‘new’ claims of substan ...more |
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| Breast cancer is the most common invasive cancer diagnosed in females in Australia. It is also the leading cause of cancer death in females. It is estimated that 13,261 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer in Australia this year.
Links have been fo ...more |
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| Okay, so what’s my secret to minimising menopause? It’s a salad ... real food ... that’s my secret. It won’t make millions of dollars for the medical professional or pharmaceutical industry, but it seems to work for me. ...more |
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| The difference between a man with a vision who wants to make a positive mark on his world and one who is aimless with no hope for the future is immeasurable. The aim of Pathways to Manhood is to bring out the potential in young men and have them full of i ...more |
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| Care of the intact penis is a simple task - leave it alone - so why all the confusion? ...more |
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| The distinction between work (as in homework) and real learning is best appreciated by distinguishing between knowledge, with its implicit conditioning, and intelligence, which expresses naturally in the state of authentic play.
Each age and stage of a c ...more |
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| Post Natal Depression (PND) affects at least one in ten mothers around the world. While this painful and debilitating condition afflicts mothers — within four weeks of giving birth — it is also stressful for family relationships and detrimental to mother– ...more |
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| As the scary studies about plastic’s health effects pile up, should we kick the habit? We have become addicted to the freedom plastics have apparently afforded us, but at what cost? Are we poisoning ourselves whenever we eat or drink from a plastic contai ...more |
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| There are many things to consider when planning your pregnancy, labour and birth. It is important to remember that there are many options available, and you need to consider your own expectations and birth experience before deciding. For example, the foll ...more |
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| Birth groups all over the country arecampaigning for reform of Australia’s birth care services. With the crisis in current care systems, the National Maternity Action Plan helps us all sing the same song towards change. We are on the threshold of a rare o ...more |
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