FEVER: A Gift for Health

If you ask most people what they think of fever they will usually tell you that it makes them feel unwell, that it is a sign of illness, that it can be dangerous and that it needs to be suppressed. If you consult most doctors with regard to fever, you will usually be...

Entertainment Captive Children: Part 4

(Abridged version of an article to appear in the book Awaken to Child Health (Hawthorne Press Stroud, UK, 2008). DR RAOUL GOLDBERG, BSC (MED), MB CHB, CEDH (HOM) practises anthroposophical medicine in his general family practice in Cape Town. He has been a school...

Eating Disorders in Children

Obesity and anorexia nervosa are two extremes of a spectrum of eating disorders and eating abnormalities that probably affect one in every third child. The prevalence of these disorders has increased greatly over the past decade especially in developed countries, and...

Depressed Children: Hear Their Cry!

By Dr Raoul Goldberg BSc (Med), MB ChB (Wits), CEDH (Hom) The cries of depressed children who have no advocates to speak for them are sounding all around us. It is estimated that 2% of primary school children and 5% of adolescents are affected by major clinical...

Creative Nutrition for Healthy Children: Part 2

In Part 1 of this article an attempt was made to offer a general commonsense approach to healthy child nutrition. In Part 2 the intention is to explore the subject in more depth, based on the natural connection between the child’s constitution and nature, from...