MEASELS AND MORE - by Ni Zain

It has been in the papers: 30000 kids are dying in Indonesia each year from Measles. I have been reading this articles with big question marks over my head. I was asking myself a few days: What is wrong in the picture? And than it was there... Read now, why....

Measles, same as all child hood diseases, are normally harmless. I remember my mom put me always together with kids who were running such illnesses. She wanted me to run though them when I was little, so they would be harmless and I was done with them. For some kid of reason, which I did not understand until I got into health care, I never ever got any of the childhood diseases. At the age of 16 I got Rubella, a very mild form. And this was quite funny as everybody eels in school had chickenpox at this time. So why did I never got any of the childhood diseases? I believe very much that I was just a super healthy little girl. My immune system would just knock of the virus. My mom, even it was not the diet I would now live on, always cooked fresh food. We had a rich diet of vegetables, carbohydrates, dairy products and fruit. Fish and Meat additional. I spent lots of time in the fresh air and made lots of sports. Up to now I never got any other disease. I never developed any of the "normal" diseases you get when you live in the tropics. Even I have not been vaccinated for more than 20 years now... I live on a vegetarian diet without dairy products for more than 15 years.

I still believe that the normal childhood diseases as Measles, Chicken Pox, Mumps, Rubella, Scarlet Fever and even harder diseases as Whopping Cough and Polio are not life threatening. Only... and here we coming to the key of it... only if the child is not healthy. Unfortunately these days children cannot be healthy anymore in a form as their parents where when they were children. High sugar intake, medical drugs, pollution, vaccination and just a not healthy diet are knocking of the immune system of little kids so much that their little bodies are not able to cope anymore with simple diseases as measles, etc.

A good friend of mine just told me of a little girl out of her Indonesian family. She is two years old and the only food this child is getting: Tea Bottle, Candies and Chocolate. Never anything eels. Never! She is low in energy, aphetic and might not survive her 4th year of life. UPDATE FROM 22/07/2007: A week ago I visited my friend who was very upset from a phone call she got from her husband who has been with his family in Java. Now, just 4 months after I was talking about this little girl she is in hospital. Diagnose: Leukemia! We are very sad for the girl, but extremely angry with the parents. How unresponsively they have been. We will keep all of you updated if this little girl will survive. We all hope she will and that her parents will understand... End update 22/07/2007.

The sad truth is: Hundred thousands of kids live on the same diet all over Indonesia, all over the world. This opens the door wide for diseases of all kinds. In a statement given from the Minister of Health of Indonesia, was mentioned that the only way to survive any of the upcoming epidemics will be: A Healthy Diet and Life Style! The only way to not be one of the 30000 dead of measles is to give your family a healthy diet. Unfortunately reality these days is different. Kids getting all sort of "super fast marketing food". Kids eat sugar in such high levels that their immune systems just fail. Kids do not eat enough fresh fruit and vegetables. And still parents believe they doing good to their children...

So what about vaccination? No. No way. There are so many reasons to stay away from vaccinations. I am working on a separate article about vaccinations which hopefully will come up this year. Go online and find out yourself, but you will end up the same. No! No way!

My solution for my son will be: I will vaccinate him with a homeopathic measles. But only because I am concerned about the high rate of vaccination they plan. I believe it will spread the measles even more and more children will actually die. Up to now I believe it is not sure how these measles out of the lab are mutating once out. I believe they are much stronger. I am more worried about these mutations than the real measles. Nobody can tell me they know it is save. Nobody can ever tell anyone anything out of a lab can be save. At the end time will show. But it might be too late for many kids...

Ni Zain - The Bule Balian

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