McCarthy said vaccination caused autism in her child, but a special diet fixed it. You’d possibly laugh off such folksy babble from Silverstone, McCarthy and the like, were their stands on such potential lifesavers as vaccination not given the intuition/superstition treatment. One only hopes there’s nobody impressionable enough to ditch their evidence-based medicine and follow her on that - just to name one possible side-effect, ditching your blood pressure medication (if you need it) for plants while pregnant can cause a little thing called pre-eclampsia, which could cost you and your baby’s life.īut hey, you wouldn’t want to drag those awful toxins through your “baby house”.

Kind foods, apparently, cannot only supercharge fertility and reduce your likelihood of miscarriage but help “stave off diseases like cancer, heart disease, diabetes” and maybe “demolish your need for pharmaceutical drugs, especially for the treatment of things like depression, type 2 diabetes and hypertension”. long-term protection from almost every disease there is”. More dangerously, she advises that eating “kind foods” (plants) during pregnancy “means not only boosting the odds of conceiving but also setting the stage for. (AP Photo/Rodale Books)Īnd if you’re struggling with infertility, it could be all that meat, dairy and processed food you’re consuming that “take toxic sludge through your baby house” (uterus). This book cover image released by Rodale Books shows 'The Kind Mama: A Simple Guide to Supercharged Fertility, a Radiant Pregnancy, a Sweeter Birth, and a Healthier, More Beautiful Beginning,' by Alicia Silverstone. The way Silverstone tells it in The Kind Mama: A Simple Guide to Supercharged Fertility, A Radiant Pregnancy, A Sweeter Birth and a Healthier, More Beautiful Beginning, the future wellbeing of you and your vegan offspring is at stake.

None of it is evidence-based.Īnother is that already worn-out new mothers and fathers who fail meet the stratospheric standards of all-round parenting purity of some of the world’s most privileged mothers may feel they are failing at life. One problem is that given the appearance of “perfection” some Hollywood mums can appear to have achieved, you may be tempted to attribute some weight to their pronouncements on everything from harmful “chemical” foods you must not give your baby (formula) to the “dangers” of vaccination. And best avoid those “violent” hospital births, according to her website. that mothers should breastfeed their babies for six months,” said Bundchen after experiencing the miracle of motherhood. To that lot add Gisele Bündchen and her sancti-mummy epistles from on supermodel high. US actor Jenny McCarthy (L) and her son Evan, carried by US actor Jim Carrey, take part in the Green Our Vaccines march on June 4, 2008.

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