The Primal Parent

May 16, 2013
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E Coli and Salmonella and Tapeworms, Oh My!

Just for the record, I’m not on a raw meat diet. I didn’t do a raw pregnancy. I get a lot of emails and comments from people assuming I eat a raw meat-Aajonus Vonderplanitz type Primal diet. I don’t… anymore. About six years ago I experimented with a raw meat diet and adhered to it for a while. I eventually moved on to just raw sea food, rice, and raw juices. Then I moved to low carb. Yada yada. I’ve experimented with just about everything.

That said, I still think there is a lot of value in including raw animal foods (and juices) in the diet. That’s why I write about it a lot - not because I think everyone should quit cooked meat and start eating raw. 

The question most everyone has about eating raw animal foods is how they can eat it safely and avoid getting food borne illnesses. Doesn’t eating meat cause infection of certain pathogens?

The answer is yes and no.
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May 14, 2013
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Paleo Kid’s Menu for Home or Day Care

I ran into a website for a home daycare the other day (which will remain anonymous) that was cognizant about the environment, exercise, and everything natural. The day care didn’t do TV and did do gardening. Her sweet home offered a play based learning program. It looked fantastic.

I was really impressed when she said that she goes beyond the USDA standards to serve nutritious, organic, natural foods, free of artificial dyes and HFCS. What a little paradise right?

Until I saw this:

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May 8, 2013
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March Against Monsanto

March Against Monsanto

Tami Monroe Canal says she was inspired to start the movement, March Against Monsanto, to protect her 2 daughters. “I feel Monsanto threatens their generations health, fertility and longevity. I could’nt sit by idly, waiting for someone else to do something.”

I am totally with her on this, as a mother of two daughters myself. Although, my interest in this fight is not just about my daughters’ health, but about justice and freedom. Monsanto is robbing the world of their freedom to grow the foods they choose to grow and is replacing natural plants with modified crops that are bad for our health.

This gigantic corporation has got to be stopped. March Against Monsanto might just be the beginning of a revolution.
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April 29, 2013
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Birth Control, NuvaRing, and Deception

NuvaRingThe recent news about the NuvaRing lawsuit is one of hundreds of lawsuits filed against big drug companies. Consumers and doctors call into question the safety of certain prescription drugs and the marketing practices of companies like Merc & Co..

Despite the risks, drug companies release drugs with inadequate testing. To ensure sales, the long list of side effects sits at the bottom of the insert. Rare and potentially fatal side effects are listed in fine print along with the milder ones. Doctors shrug them off as if they are as unlikely as getting struck by lightning, and consumers go along with their doctor’s complacency. But people are hurt every day from supposedly safe medications.

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