Vaccine Debate

Epigenetics: the funky term you NEED to understand

Posted by HealthfulMama on Jan 23, 2012 in Natural Health, Thoughts to Action | 2 comments

Epigenetics. This funky word is why I write, why I blog, why I post the hell out of links on Facebook (which most likely drives my non-reader friends nuts), and why I am so committed to eating healthfully and living naturally. To put it simply, epigenetics is the idea that environmental factors can affect our genetic makeup, to the point where sometimes “identical” twins end up, well, not so identical. Epigenetics literally means “above the genome,” and describes a particular portion of our DNA that tells our cells how to work. (Need a refresher course on DNA? Here’s a brief video...

Vax Debate Revisited

Posted by HealthfulMama on Oct 31, 2011 in Natural Health, the Body Electric, Thinking Globally, Thoughts to Action | 5 comments

Last week, I posted my thoughts on The Great Vaccine Debate by discussing the reasons I am wary of continuing vaccinations for my son. I hoped to put words to the feelings that I, and other parents (a few who emailed me following my post) are experiencing in the face of mounting vaccine doses and mounting health issues in the nation’s children. Many parents are choosing delayed vaccination scheduling or declining certain vaccinations because 1) they don’t want to NOT vaccinate their children against life-threatening diseases but, 2) they aren’t fully trusting of the...

The Vax Debate: Neither Side is Right

Posted by HealthfulMama on Oct 26, 2011 in Natural Health, Thoughts to Action | 79 comments

I vowed to myself that there would be a few topics I would not address on this blog, one of them being The Vaccine Debate. There are too many emotions, variables, and conflicts involved with it and I will honestly say that I am staunchly in the middle on this one. However, an inflammatory conversation, recently, on a message board I belong to prompted me to think about a bit more about my feelings and opinions of the subject. If you haven’t been keeping up, take some time to view PBS Frontline’s “The Vaccine War”. While I feel that this program leans a little more...