Mothers, kids health, and the natural world
0 Comments Published by rural dad on 3/22/2007 at 10:10.
Plant knowledge key to childhood health in remote Amazon
I've always been a plant person, and enjoyed learning the health benefits of our local flora. In college, there were always jokes that I was the "Level 3 herbalist" when a roommate dropped his bike into a thicket of poison oak, and I tracked down the mugwort to wipe down the bike and his hands. Now someone has quantified the effect on kids.
In our globalized world with disastrous health care policies, people who know the herbal treatments to common maladies will come out ahead financially and in terms of health. Now where's that homeopathy book???
...mothers who had knowledge of local plants well above the average were more likely to have children with better health, whereas mothers who had less than the average knowledge were more likely to have children with worse indicators of health and nutrition.
I've always been a plant person, and enjoyed learning the health benefits of our local flora. In college, there were always jokes that I was the "Level 3 herbalist" when a roommate dropped his bike into a thicket of poison oak, and I tracked down the mugwort to wipe down the bike and his hands. Now someone has quantified the effect on kids.
To a great extent, Tsimane survival and well being is dependent on their knowledge of local plants, in everything from managing their environment to getting food and preventing and curing disease, explained Reyes-García. "However, globalization threatens this knowledge to the extent that formal schooling and jobs in emerging markets devalue folk knowledge and provide access to products not made from local resources, but without providing adequate medical treatment substitutes,"
In our globalized world with disastrous health care policies, people who know the herbal treatments to common maladies will come out ahead financially and in terms of health. Now where's that homeopathy book???
We're about 10 weeks out now....this whole birth thing is going to get really, well, real here soon.
We're planning on Cosleeping, and have just ordered our Arm's Reach co-sleeper. Hypnobirthing
classes went great. Our sunday afternoon review of Happiest Baby on the Block was enlightening, and now I've got techniques for reining in the squalling with the added bonus of not having to read the book.
And from the Lactivist, this trite piece of pseudo journalism. 'Nuff said.
We're planning on Cosleeping, and have just ordered our Arm's Reach co-sleeper. Hypnobirthing
classes went great. Our sunday afternoon review of Happiest Baby on the Block was enlightening, and now I've got techniques for reining in the squalling with the added bonus of not having to read the book.And from the Lactivist, this trite piece of pseudo journalism. 'Nuff said.
