Quotes about Childhood from the world's top natural health / natural living authors
Email to a friendpage 1 of 32 | Next ->
 "At four months, he'd started having ear infections, and had suffered through twelve of them, including three that had coincided with his scheduled childhood vaccinations. For years, he had practically lived on antibiotics. Lately, however, except for his muscle weakness, some eye problems, and some rather persistent diarrhea, he was a healthy kid. Thank God for that. In fact, Elizabeth and Eric, who shared a strong faith, thanked God for many things, including the strength of their marriage, which was somehow withstanding the stress."- Kenneth Bock, Healing the New childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Besides, if this epidemic were just a matter of more accurate diagnosis during childhood, where are all the thirty-year-old autistics? ADHD has increased by at least 400 percent over the same twenty years. Now, 3.5 million children suffer from it. The very worst symptoms of ADHD are similar to those of children on the autism spectrum. American kids now consume 90 percent of the world's Ritalin, the most popular ADHD medication. Asthma has increased by 300 percent over the same time period, and asthma deaths have increased by 56 percent, despite improvements in acute crisis care." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "PART TWO THE FOUR NEW childhood EPIDEMICS AND THEIR CONNECTIONS 1. AUTISM CHAPTER FOUR MYSTERIES AND MIRACLES FLASHBACK: A DETECTIVE STORY Milwaukee, Wisconsin, 2000 IT WAS ONE OF THOSE SLUSHY, SHINY MARCH DAYS IN WISCONSIN that was trapped between seasons, with hot sun casting cold shadows, and Megan decided to take Kyle out of the basement onto the porch, even though he might try to scream and run away." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) |
 "However, our widening social gap, along with the effects of toxic childhood syndrome on many children, threatens this social mobility, creating ghettos where ethnic minority groups become increasingly inward-looking or dissatisfied at their social exclusion. This enhances the potential for racial tensions - not least because the indigenous poor are looking for someone handy to blame for their own apparently unchangeable living conditions."- Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.) "And emotional wounds from childhood often fester for years. Statistics show that children of divorced parents are more likely than others to become depressed, drug or drink dependent and involved in crime; they're also more likely to have unhappy marriages themselves. Minimising the trauma The advice on minimising trauma is fairly obvious (see summary on page 163). One key aspect is to ensure opportunities for children to talk about what's happening, and listen to their point of view." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.) "It doesn't exist in Chinese, so in very early childhood they excise it from their phonemic repertoire.) If phonemic awareness isn't acquired naturally at this very early stage, it can be very difficult for children to develop it later. Scientists have now pinpointed the sections of the brain involved in processing speech sounds, and it's clear that for some children genetic factors make it difficult (in extreme cases perhaps impossible) to discriminate certain phonemes. In this case, personal biology holds the child back." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.) |
| "Frustrated by the failure of conventional techniques, and frightened by the threats to their own families, they were searching for the root causes of the new epidemics.
The majority of these doctors had children or grandchildren who were suffering from autism. These doctors-including Jaquelyn McCan-dless, M.D.; Jeff Bradstreet, M.D.; Jane El-Dahr, M.D.; and Amy Holmes, M.D.-were coalescing regularly in conferences sponsored by groups such as Defeat Autism Now." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) |
| "The American Academy of Pediatrics therefore recommends that children under two shouldn't watch TV at all, but television is such a part of the furniture in twenty-first-century homes that this suggestion seems hopelessly unrealistic. Besides, there's also evidence that good educational TV can create a talking point between parent and child, and stimulate babies and toddlers to activity by copying the actions they see on screen. Once they're talking, the fun of television can interest children in words." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.) |
 "Wright believes that diseases as disparate as rheumatoid arthritis, childhood asthma, osteoporosis, chronic fatigue, and depression all have in common low stomach acid. childhood asthma is a good case in point: More than 80 percent of children diagnosed with asthma have exhibited low HC1 levels. In fact, according to Wright, hydrochloric acid can be a significant part of the cure for children with asthma."- Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) |
 "When I started my career as a pediatrician, medication was understood to be the only option, not only for ADD/ADHD but also for most childhood ailments.
I began looking at alternative ways of treating everything from ear infections to behavioral problems. I found that there were much more logical ways than medication of helping families cope with childhood and teenage health concerns. Often, these methods worked better—and always had the added bonus of producing fewer side effects.
Behavioral problems are very common in pediatrics."- Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.) |
 "Well-planned vegan and other types of vegetarian diets are appropriate for all stages of the life cycle, including during pregnancy, lactation, infancy, childhood and adolescence.
Vegetarian diets offer a number of nutritional benefits, including lower levels of saturated fat, cholesterol, and animal protein as well as higher levels of carbohydrates, fiber, magnesium, potassium, folate, and antioxidants such as vitamins C and E and phytochem-icals. ..."- Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) |
 "Vitamin D influences skeletal growth during the nine-month fetal period and your childhood years. The D hormone is important in all aspects of bone production. However, when you're calcium deficient due to an acidic diet or a lack of vitamin D, your activated vitamin D works to disintegrate or break down your bone to mobilize minerals and raise blood levels of calcium.
The role that vitamin D plays depends on where you are in your life cycle, your nutrition, and your health."- James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) "RUTHS (continued) Vitamin D and Diet Truths Autoimmune diseases are due to genetic risk in the presence of vitamin D deficiency and dietary imbalance beginning shortly after conception and continuing through early childhood. Cancer is usually a preventable disease if you have a lifetime of normal vitamin D levels and a healthy diet. Melanoma results from overexposure to UVA and inadequate vitamin D levels. Vitamin D should be measured at routine physical examinations for people of all ages. 16 How Vitamin D Works Vitamin D deficiency is ?more common in women; ?" - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) "Epidemiological studies in the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, and India also show that low-birth-weight babies who have fast catchup growth in early childhood are more likely than their peers to develop obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, and/or heart disease. It's also clear that African Americans have low-birth-weight and very-low-birth-weight babies more than twice as often as European Americans." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) |
| "He reported that the incidence of diabetes in Finland was stable in children under 4 years of age until the government made several changes in its childhood vaccination schedule. In 1974,130,000 children age 3 months to 4 years were enrolled in a vaccine experimental trial and injected with hepatitis B vaccine or meningococcal vaccine. Then, in 1976, the pertussis vaccine used in Finland was made stronger by adding a second strain of bacteria." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) |
 "As I recounted these memories of my early childhood to my mother, she looked at me in disbelief. "You couldn't possibly remember those days," she said. "It was after your father had come home from the service and we'd moved to Providence, Rhode Island, where he was enrolled at Brown University. I'd take you down to the river to watch the university crew team practice in the fall. There's no way you could remember that time because you were only a year and a half old!"- Gregg Braden, The Spontaneous Healing of Belief: Shattering the Paradigm of False Limits (Get the book.) |
| "You are going to go through old photos, journals, and childhood memorabilia as well, and reorganize or discard some. This is Juice Feasting: time and space to clean and rebuild, with more money (nutrient-dense, bioavailable nutrition from 12-15 pounds of juiced produce each day, plus super-food concentrates) and energy. In other words, Juice Feasting is a super-food liquid diet that energizes and builds while you are continuing your normal home and work responsibilities.
Physiological compensation: "Energy saved in one department may be expended in another." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) |
 "In type 1 diabetes, which usually develops during childhood or early adolescence, the pancreas does not produce insulin. Therefore, those with the disease must take insulin every day for the rest of their lives. This form of diabetes affects about 5 percent of those who have the disease and is currently believed to be autoimmune in nature, which means the body produces antibodies that destroy its own cells; in this case, the beta cells. The exact cause is unknown, although genetic factors, environmental influences, diet, and viruses are all being closely explored as contributing factors."- Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) "Other risk factors for childhood development of type 2 diabetes include a family history of the disease, puberty, female gender, and being born to a mother who had diabetes. It is especially critical that we reverse the progression of the disease in children and adolescents, because the presence of the disease exposes them to additional decades of damage from elevated blood glucose levels and glycation." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) "If, for example, you are a woman who has diabetes and you have a child who weighed more than 9 pounds at birth, your child is at significant risk of developing metabolic syndrome in childhood and diabetes later in life. Research also shows that infants with lower birth weights whose mothers were obese but not diabetic at the time they gave birth are also at increased risk of developing metabolic syndrome." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) "Metabolic syndrome in childhood: association with birth weight, maternal obesity and gestational diabetes mellitus. Pediatrics 2005 Mar; 115(3):e290-96. Chen Jiunn-Rong. Dilatation of common carotid artery is strongly associated with cerebral ischemic stroke with or without the presence of carotid atherosclerosis. Abstracts of the International Stroke Conference 2000 32:365-d. Chyi-Huey Bai et al. Relations between coagulation profiles, lipid profiles, and other risk factors with risk of first-ever ischemic stroke: A novel case-control study." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) |
 "The American Academy of Pediatrics' Green Book found that "very high exposures to thimerosal-containing products have resulted in toxicity, including acrodynia [or childhood mercury poisoning], chronic mercury toxicity, renal failure, and neuropathy." When administered in a vaccine, thimerosal goes right into the bloodstream and passes through the blood-brain barrier. Once there, thimerosal—like other heavy metals—is very hard to get rid of, especially in children."- Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "DNA simply cannot mutate fast enough to explain these sharp increases in childhood health problems. Dr. Phil Landrigan—the director of the Center for Children's Health and the Environment and the director of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine—told me that "genes do change over the millennia, but not in twenty years. I don't think any of these increases in diseases that we've been talking about are due to changes in children's genes. They're due to changes in the environment." Dr." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) |
| "In 1982, another vaccine was added to the childhood vaccination schedule in Finland. Children age 14 months to 6 years were given the live MMR (measles-mumps-rubella) vaccine. This was followed by the injection of 114,000 Finnish children 3 months and older with another experimental Hib vaccine. In 1988, Finland recommended that all babies be injected with the hepatitis B vaccine." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) |
 "As with the other tip-of-the-iceberg compounds, PCBs are more destructive to the cognitive development of brains in childhood. Pre- and postnatal exposure—the latter experienced largely through the act of breast-feeding—has been associated with lower IQs, delayed developmental milestones, and lack of endurance,41 as well as impaired motor skills and short-term memory. It is thought that PCBs may also be carcinogenic, and some have suggested that their effects on cognitive development may be masked until adulthood."- Peter J. Whitehouse and Daniel George, The Myth of Alzheimer's: What You Aren't Being Told About Today's Most Dreaded Diagnosis (Get the book.) |
 "Ironically, we're looking for the sinister cause of the staggering increase in childhood asthma, all the while stuffing our youngsters with refined grain products. Is it any wonder that we're depressed, achy, and having our hips and knees replaced right and left?
But, evidence is mounting that high-dose omega-3 therapy is effective in reversing many of these inflammatory conditions. What's surprising is that we are only now rediscovering these facts."- Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.) "Our genes protect our rapidly growing childhood cells from these plant compounds in the easiest way possible: they turn on or off taste bud receptors. During the years of rapid growth, your taste buds say "yuck"; when the danger is past, and you might need some help getting rid of rapidly growing cells that could manifest as cancer, your taste buds are activated to say "yum" instead!" - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.) |
 "Type 1 diabetes usually manifests in childhood or young adulthood. It used to be called childhood-onset or insulin-dependent diabetes. In type 1 diabetes, something has damaged the pancreas's ability to produce insulin, and you need to get it from an outside source—typically by injection. However, recent research has revealed a great deal about how diet changes can dramatically reduce the risk that diabetes will bring any serious complications your way, as you will see in Chapter 3.
In addition, we know more than ever about the causes of the disease, arming us with more power to prevent it."- Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan, Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes Without Drugs (Get the book.) "It is usually diagnosed in childhood and is invariably treated with insulin—hence its former names, childhood-onset diabetes and insulin-dependent diabetes. Unlike people with type 2 diabetes, those with type 1 always need to take insulin. But they can use diet and lifestyle changes to keep doses to a minimum and reduce the risk of complications. We also have a new—and surprising—understanding of the fundamental causes of type 1 diabetes." - Neal D. Barnard and Bryanna Clark Grogan, Dr. Neal Barnard's Program for Reversing Diabetes: The Scientifically Proven System for Reversing Diabetes Without Drugs (Get the book.) |
 "Frequently beginning in childhood, extrinsic asthma often becomes less severe as a person ages. Intrinsic asthma tends to develop later in life and often follows a respiratory tract infection. Emotional factors, such as stress or anxiety, may precipitate attacks of intrinsic asthma.
Recommendations include using enzyme therapy to provide support of the digestive and immune systems, help to heal irritated mucosal linings, and reduce inflammation. Avoiding airborne and food allergens, cleansing the system through elimination diets, and managing stress are also very beneficial."- Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) |
page 1 of 32 | Next ->
FAIR USE NOTICE: The research quoted here is provided under the protection of Fair Use provisions and published by the 501(c)3 non-profit Consumer Wellness Center for the purposes of public comment and education. Authors / publishers may submit books for consideration of inclusion here.
TERMS OF USE: Read full terms of use. Citations of text from NaturalPedia must include: 1) Full credit to the original author and book title. 2) Secondary credit to the Natural News Naturalpedia as a research resource and a link to www.NaturalPedia.com
This unique compilation of research is copyright (c) 2008, 2009 by the non-profit Consumer Wellness Center.
ABOUT THE CREATOR OF NATURALPEDIA: Mike Adams, the creator of NaturalPedia, is the editor of NaturalNews.com, the internet's top natural health news site, creator of the Honest Food Guide (www.HonestFoodGuide.org), a free downloadable consumer food guide based on natural health principles, author of Grocery Warning, The 7 Laws of Nutrition, Natural Health Solutions, and many other books available at www.TruthPublishing.com, creator of the earth-friendly EcoLEDs company (www.EcoLEDs.com) that manufactures energy-efficient LED lighting products, founder of Arial Software (www.ArialSoftware.com), a permission e-mail technology company, creator of the CounterThink Cartoon series (www.NaturalNews.com/index-cartoons.html) and author of over 1,500 articles, interviews, special reports and reference guides available at www.NaturalNews.com. Adams' personal philosophy and health statistics are available at www.HealthRanger.org.
| Email announcements powered by Campaign Enterprise from ArialSoftware.com |
