Nature’S Child: Healing Children from the Inside Out

By Paula J Johnson ND OTR

What has happened to our children? Have you noticed that in a world where children are overmedicated, they arent as resilient and healthy as they used to be? Parents are desperate to find another way! Natures Child provides a comprehensive natural approach to managing childrens health issues using safe, holistic remedies while learning how to strengthen the immune system.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Jul 20, 2017
• ISBN: 9781504378604

Paula J Johnson ND OTR

Paula has a Bachelor’s degree in Occupational Therapy from Western Michigan University and has been working with children for over 30 years. Her passion for health and wellness led her to become a Naturopathic Doctor from Trinity College of Natural Health, due to the increase in children with health related issues such as autism, asthma, and allergies. Balance, is the root of her philosophy, with digestive health being the “hub of the body” in which every health issue stems from. Paula specializes in food sensitivities, digestive health, and various children’s health issues. She has a Naturopathic practice in which she conducts consultations along with speaking in the community on children’s health issues.

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PART ONE

CHAPTER 1

Good Health is Natural

Health is a natural part of life. The body was created perfectly and has an innate intelligence to stay in balance, working very hard every second to do so. We function best when there is a balance of proper foods, exercise, and serenity. A perfect example of this is the people who live in the blue zones of the world, which are areas where people live the longest and are the healthiest. These people live to be well over the age of 100, are the farthest from health care, have no symptoms, and live in underdeveloped areas. These people live in harmony with each other, the environment, and enjoy life and their good health.

So why in the richest and most developed country in the world do we focus on illness and disease rather than wellness? Last year we spent 3.8 trillion dollars on health care alone. Obviously, there is a health crisis, but why? It has become common to talk about our symptoms and compare who has more symptoms and who is worse off. We focus on the disease and manage it through the use of drugs and surgery in order to fix the body. When we relieve symptoms by taking medications or performing surgery to remove something, we are often only compounding the problem rather than looking at what caused the problem to begin with. Wellness focuses on keeping the body in balance so that the cause of the problem does not get to the point where symptoms