Organic food and vaccinations

February 18, 2006

Hi all,

I read the discussion on organic food and would like to add that I feel very,

very strongly about this subject. The very simple reason is the fact that

organic produce, especially home produced is so much less of a burden to the

einvironment, the planet, the people who produce it (less illness from exposure

to pesticides), to the economy (less pesticides needing to be dispossed off or

produced and less aftereffects needed to be dealt with), to our babies and

children, to our bodies, to our HEALTH. Just think of the way it is grown: you

have a healthy soil, teaming with healthy bacteria, which will grow healthy

plants that are less resistant to attack from pests and diseases and much

richer in nutrients. This has a direct impact on our health and our immune

system, which we need to rely on for keeping us healthy in a world with more

and more vaccines and drugs to take the place of healthy eating and nutrients

from food.

Please, please, please don't assume it is just the stuff that you wash off, it

literally goes deep down as most produce is sprayed at the stage where it is in

flower or even bud, before the fruit or veg is even fully grown. Just like

vaccination issues, it really pays to look much deeper and do your research and

if you can't afford, at least do without junk food and alcohol and coffee

for a day and see how much you save that could have been spent on organic food.

Try and grow an organic lettuce on your windwsill and taste the difference.

Your body will thank you.

Here is a link and an article I wrote for the VRAN newsletter to explain more

fully what I mean.

Love and Health to you all!

Ingrid

http://www.whyorganic.org/page2_1.asp?main=2 & sub=1

Real health – from a mother’s perspective

By Ingrid Glendinning, Scotland

I do not claim to be a professional in any type of health care, but I

know that motherhood and my love for gardening have taught me so much,

especially about health, lessons, that I would have probably never learned

otherwise.

What does it mean to be truly healthy, to have REAL HEALTH?

I came up with this term some time ago, feeling inspired by my love for

organic gardening and my deep respect for Mother Nature.

What is Real Health?

For me it was this passion for organic gardening that helped me to define

it.

I like to compare the Immune System to the soil in an organic garden: if

the soil is looked after well and receives all the nutrients and bacteria it

needs to sustain healthy plant growth – then the plants that are grown in this

soil will be stronger, healthier and far less susceptible to attack from pests

and diseases (and even if they do get sick, they will recover much quicker and

better in this kind of soil).

It is the same with our Immune System and our body – it is the soil, the

terrain which nourishes all our organs and allows them to function at an

optimum level. Of course, it can only do this if it gets the right kind of

balance f nutrients form day one of our life and many other elements like clean

air and good living conditions.

Mother Nature gives us Mothers a helping hand here: she has equipped us

to feed our babies with breastmilk. Breastmilk, containing not only the

perfect balance of nutrients for our babies’ growth, also contains many

elements unique to human milk which help to develop and strengthen our babies’

Immune System and prepare it for protecting the baby from many pathogens.

If a baby is exclusively breastfed and its Immune System left undisturbed

then most breastfed babies will grow into strong, healthy children and adults.

Only when this immature, underdeveloped immune system is interfered with

with vaccines, wrong feeding and/or suppressive medicine, will its balance be

tipped and long term problems may develop.

I believe that every baby is born with a strong inner force; something

Homeopathy calls The Vital Force.

I can best describe this force in babies and children when observing them

always getting up when falling, being full of energy and life when playing and

an ability to always bounce back from physical and emotional damage.

If we suppress and weaken this Vital Force, with vaccines, wrong feeding

and suppressive medication, Real Health will be compromised and more difficult

to achieve. The body will be less able to cope with illness.

Scientists are still trying to understand fully how the Immune System

works and develops.

Again, I like to use a comparison with an organic soil, which produces

healthy plants. This kind of nutrients rich, healthy and balanced soil is the

basis to human health –from it grows nutrient rich plants which nourish our

bodies. So we are literally linked to “the terrain”, the earth: keep it strong,

give it what it needs and it will look after the plants just like a strong

“inner terrain” (our Immune System) which will do the same for us, provided we

give it what it needs and not weaken its functions.

So, the next time you work in your garden, stop and think about the

“black gold” that covers your hands. Stop and think how closely linked we

humans are to it and how dependent our Health is on it.

Let us get back to nature and enjoy something that is becoming a rarity:

Real, true Health.

I

February 18, 2006

Ingrid,

Wow! You said it so well! And I will admit that with a family of five, we

can't always eat organic, but we do try as much as possible. Like you said, it's

just better for everyone involved (which means everyone on the planet). And we

are fortunate enough to have a great garden that dh enjoys working.

I challenge all on this group to even do taste tests with organic products. I

promise you - you WILL taste the difference. Same with pastured meats, etc...

They are so very much better tasting that you will not want to go back once you

switch.

Very well put, Ingrid!

Sheri B.

Ingrid Schebesch <ingrid_schebesch@...> wrote: