As the world now well knows, celebrity chef Pete Evans doesn’t have much time for conventional sunscreen.
Or baby formula.
Or the addition of fluoride to drinking water.
And while ordinarily I’d be like, “okay kooky affluent man, you do you,” I can’t when it comes to Pete Evans.
And that’s because I grew up in a household that would have set his paleo-loving heart racing. And it’s cost me thousands of dollars in medical bills.
Pete Evans with his daughters. Source: Facebook.
For the most part, my early childhood was the kind of experience many of us, Pete Evans included, dream about.
My family and I lived on a small farm where we grew our own fruit and vegetables, collected eggs laid by our pet hens, drank rain water fresh from the tank, and spent our mornings feeding poddy lambs.
My parents made almost all of our food from scratch, with preservatives and food colourings being big no no's.
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I grew up on fluoride water & have a head full of fillings my kids are now in their 20s & 1 has 2 fillings the other one has none. They both had concrete tank water. I think we need to look at diet, stress & gut health.
I think the balance is somewhere in between. I grew up in northern Sweden where the public school dental nurse would show up once per week with a little fluoride in a cup that she would hand out. On her cue we would all put it in our mouth and flush around for a minute and again on her cue we would spit it in the cup for her collection on a tray. I'm sure it helped a lot and is a better solution than to put it in the drinking water. I find it amazing that people zero in on this guy, when there are so many multinationals putting all kind of fillers (sugar, trans fats, preservatives etc) in the stuff they sell to us as food. They put the world natural on the box and we even pay extra. I guess a guy like Pete Evans is easier to target than the multinationals. Nothing wrong with eating fruit and veg and cooking your food from scratch, humans have done that for ever. Doesn't mean you need to go all extreme and as one of the 1.5 M people who has liked his Facebook page, I don't. We do use sunscreen, although never stay in the sun much and if we go before 10am, or after 3pm we may not put it on because all but one of us in the family react with allergy to the stuff to various degrees. A non allergy screen has turned out being the one we can tolerate the best. Why knock the eating your own fruit/veg/rain water when it doesn't do you damage; not tending to the dental health did. We don't have fluoride in the water but we rinse once per week and use fluoride toothpaste.