A breastfeeding mother whose baby almost died after she went on a raw food diet has been handed a 14 month suspended sentence.
The mother who can not be named, pleaded guilty to a charge of ‘failing to provide’ in a Sydney court earlier this year.
She went on the raw food diet, police allege, on the advice of Marilyn Bodnar in order to treat her child’s eczema. Bodnar, a naturopath, told her that her son’s condition was her fault and that she should stop using steroid creams and instead leave her son’s skin exposed to air.
Police also allege that Bodnar advised the mother not to give her child purees, and that she should stop eating altogether to treat a fever her son later developed.
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You can't berate someone else without providing evidence yourself. What studies back up your claims?
From what I can read, most Naturopath courses are for 2 years and do not require any sort of highly specialised grading to get into (unlike medicine which requires an extremely high ATAR and other tests and they have to study for 6 years and more to specialise). It is beyond me how anyone can think that a Naturopath can literally treat so many different body systems when doctors who specialise in their field study for years beyond their 6 for MBBS wouldn't. For example, you would never meet a gastroenterologist who believes that they could treat something as well as say something that a neurologist could and vice versa, they would refer you to the expert. Proper medical professionals know their professional limits.