I am the 70s child of a health nut. I wasn’t vaccinated. I was brought up on an incredibly healthy diet: no sugar till I was one, breastfed for over a year, organic homegrown vegetables, raw milk, no MSG, no additives, no aspartame. My mother used homeopathy, aromatherapy, osteopathy, we took daily supplements of vitamin C, echinacea, cod liver oil.
I had an outdoor lifestyle; I grew up next to a farm, walked everywhere, did sports and danced twice a week, drank plenty of water. I wasn’t even allowed pop; even my fresh juice was watered down to protect my teeth, and I would’ve killed for white, shop-bought bread in my lunch box once in a while and biscuits instead of fruit like all the other kids.
We only ate (organic local) meat maybe once or twice a week and my mother and father cooked everything from scratch – I have yet to taste a Findus crispy pancake and oven chips were reserved for those nights when mum and dad had friends over and we got a “treat.”
As healthy as my lifestyle seemed, I contracted measles, mumps, rubella, a type of viral meningitis, scarlatina, whooping cough, yearly tonsillitis, and chickenpox, some of which are vaccine preventable. In my twenties I got precancerous HPV and spent 6 months of my life wondering how I was going to tell my two children under the age of 7 that mummy might have cancer before it was safely removed.
So having the “natural immunity sterilised out of us” just doesn’t cut it for me. How could I, with my idyllic childhood and my amazing health food, get so freaking ill all the time?
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You can thin slice every argument to stack it up in ones favour. I can tell you that I am a child that has never been vaccinated, I've suffered mumps and recently chicken pox and have fought them off without the help of vaccinations or drugs. Neither of my children are vaccinated and they are both strong and healthy, both have had chicken pox and bad colds and have fought them off too without the intervention of medication. Compare them to other children I know first hand who are constantly at the doctors (won't name them here) who are consistently bombarded with anti-biotics and yet still ill almost every month, then it makes my argument look amazing in an isolated environment.
This, however, doesn't mean that my life choices and those I make for my children are right for everyone, and come the day that my children get seriously ill I will look at that as an independent situation and will decide how to proceed there and then. My choice not to vaccinate doesn't mean that I'm telling people not to take vaccinations, and neither will I be told how to treat our own children, and it angers me when people do, or write about people who choose (yes, there is thought process here), that I am 'being cruel' if I 'expose them' to diseases. This is no decision taken lightly or off the cuff because we are children of 'health nuts' or 'heath nuts' ourselves, or any other terminology people who disagree with alternative ways of thinking to the conventional thoughts and practices of allopathy wish to pigeon hole us (personally, I think health is something worth going nuts over, considering the obesity epidemic that is taking over the western world).
Each to their own, what works for the individual works, at that time, and with all the best intentions to the most treasured things in our lives.
And sometimes, people who have the courage to break beyond the confines of culture should be given space in order exercise their own opinions and actions.
This is a well written piece when looking from one side, but not if it's a piece that is supposed to be impartial.
Surgeons, doctors and nurses do wonderful work for many people and drugs and allopathic practices have worked wonders and have brought peace and happiness in many ways. As have many other alternatives.
This is an obvious deception! Amy Parker oh please - how common a name can you get !! This women needs to be positive ID. I ran the text through a fake document program and it was identified as to full of the common buzz phrases and words suited for search engines and artificially designed !!!