Gift Your Child a Stronger Immunity
“Children around the world are less fit than their parents were as kids”, screamed the headlines today early morning from a popular news blog I follow. November is such a magical time of the year but it also marks the beginning of winter, and along with it, malaria, dengue and multiple other diseases.
I know a ten-year old boy who ran faster than the speed of light. He was highly intelligent and need only be shown something once, if at all, to quickly process it and move to the next activity. He got bored easily and needed constant stimulation from new ideas and life experiences. It seemed as if he had the energy of the entire universe expanding inside him and needed to expend it into the world otherwise he might explode from the pressure. This is Dhanish, my nephew, who had just recovered from a bout of malaria in August.
His mother told me she was having problems coping with his not so healthy eating habits and was at her wits end. She said, “He has a very poor immune system, hates vegetables and roams around in the sun for hours at end. He is not going to able to live a healthy life if he doesn’t mend his ways. I just can’t deal with him anymore.”
Unfortunately, our modern solution is to “take him to a doctor or punish him till he stops loitering around on the streets and does what is right for his health,” These are quick and easy ways to cover up a symptom without getting to the root of the problem. That is, if there is a problem to begin with. Maybe the dysfunction lies not within the child, but in the eco system he is brought up in, the eco system which we’ve created for him. Just to give you an example, most medicines are
“Children around the world are less fit than their parents were as kids”, screamed the headlines today early morning from a popular news blog I follow. November is such a magical time of the year but it also marks the beginning of winter, and along with it, malaria, dengue and multiple other diseases.
I know a ten-year old boy who ran faster than the speed of light. He was highly intelligent and need only be shown something once, if at all, to quickly process it and move to the next activity. He got bored easily and needed constant stimulation from new ideas and life experiences. It seemed as if he had the energy of the entire universe expanding inside him and needed to expend it into the world otherwise he might explode from the pressure. This is Dhanish, my nephew, who had just recovered from a bout of malaria in August.
His mother told me she was having problems coping with his not so healthy eating habits and was at her wits end. She said, “He has a very poor immune system, hates vegetables and roams around in the sun for hours at end. He is not going to able to live a healthy life if he doesn’t mend his ways. I just can’t deal with him anymore.”
Unfortunately, our modern solution is to “take him to a doctor or punish him till he stops loitering around on the streets and does what is right for his health,” These are quick and easy ways to cover up a symptom without getting to the root of the problem. That is, if there is a problem to begin with. Maybe the dysfunction lies not within the child, but in the eco system he is brought up in, the eco system which we’ve created for him. Just to give you an example, most medicines are