Women's Health
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Women's Health
During my post-partum care, my mother always used to try to serve food for me alone. The food given to the mother of the new-born was not supposed to be seen by any other member of the family. Does that mean that even in strict vegetarian societies, nursing mother was given the required not so vegetarian food? May be our grannies' grannies could answer! Did any other Tambram receive any "special food" during post-partum care?
Ok so what other choices do the lacto-vegan women have - butter, full-fat milk, cream, flax-seeds. Anything else?
That diet apart, here is what struck me most on the lifestyle -
In primitive societies, women's roles and women's diets were dictated by the tribal culture and did not require the individual woman to exercise her decision-making powers. By contrast, modern society gives us unlimited freedom. Every trip to the grocery store, every visit to the refrigerator presents the opportunity for wise or foolish choices about our diet.
So, too, with how we spend our time. The modern woman has been told that she can do everything-work full time, raise a family, provide meals, keep a household that runs smoothly and peacefully and remain appealing and young. Nature tells us something different. By conferring on women the gift of menopause, nature informs us that mothers of small children need help. They cannot do it all, not in primitive societies, much less in the modern age. The pressures for young women to be both wage-earner and mother can place enormous stress on our bodies at just the stage when our strength is needed for the production and care of healthy children. That stress often leads to disease.
Feminists need not cringe. This is not a summons for women to give over newly won political freedoms or withdraw from the workplace but rather a plea for common sense. The future of both ourselves and our children is best served when full-time careers are delayed until after the childbearing years. And when young mothers are obliged to work full-time, older female relatives-aunts, grandmothers, childless siblings-should be ready to pitch in and help with child-rearing duties. In every family unit, at least one person needs to have the time to prepare nutritious meals, whether mother, father, relative or housekeeper.
Hmmm....interesting!!!
Women's Health
During my post-partum care, my mother always used to try to serve food for me alone. The food given to the mother of the new-born was not supposed to be seen by any other member of the family. Does that mean that even in strict vegetarian societies, nursing mother was given the required not so vegetarian food? May be our grannies' grannies could answer! Did any other Tambram receive any "special food" during post-partum care?
Ok so what other choices do the lacto-vegan women have - butter, full-fat milk, cream, flax-seeds. Anything else?
That diet apart, here is what struck me most on the lifestyle -
In primitive societies, women's roles and women's diets were dictated by the tribal culture and did not require the individual woman to exercise her decision-making powers. By contrast, modern society gives us unlimited freedom. Every trip to the grocery store, every visit to the refrigerator presents the opportunity for wise or foolish choices about our diet.
So, too, with how we spend our time. The modern woman has been told that she can do everything-work full time, raise a family, provide meals, keep a household that runs smoothly and peacefully and remain appealing and young. Nature tells us something different. By conferring on women the gift of menopause, nature informs us that mothers of small children need help. They cannot do it all, not in primitive societies, much less in the modern age. The pressures for young women to be both wage-earner and mother can place enormous stress on our bodies at just the stage when our strength is needed for the production and care of healthy children. That stress often leads to disease.
Feminists need not cringe. This is not a summons for women to give over newly won political freedoms or withdraw from the workplace but rather a plea for common sense. The future of both ourselves and our children is best served when full-time careers are delayed until after the childbearing years. And when young mothers are obliged to work full-time, older female relatives-aunts, grandmothers, childless siblings-should be ready to pitch in and help with child-rearing duties. In every family unit, at least one person needs to have the time to prepare nutritious meals, whether mother, father, relative or housekeeper.
Hmmm....interesting!!!
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