Nutrition is the Key To A Healthy Life - Problems withIndigenous Health in Australia- by Brendan J. Prendergast

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Hi my name’s Brendan Prendergast. I have had mixed jobs having been an Entrepreneur, Adventurer and Traveller since 16 years of age. I guess in that time, I got lost in my exhilaration of what the world was, I never really set out to make my fortune, more or less I just stumbled upon one job or prospect after another.

I have hitched the world from my home country Australia, hitchhiking New Zealand when I was just 16. Truly a delightful and unspoilt place, just like in the movies ;) When I was 20 I was travelling above the Arctic Circle in Norway and Sweden. I have lived in London, Earls Court naturally, in Amsterdam and have hitched through most of Europe.

Broke and Bust when I returned to Australia, by some quirk of fate I became a pacifist that joined the Royal Australian Air Force as a Police Dog Security Expert… strangely enough undernourishment makes strange work choices. Since then and even during then I was setting up different industry’s, including Australia’s first Video creation Unit in Darwin Paradise Video. I then owned and operated an Art Gallery, Advertising Agency and Stock Feed Business while possessing and leasing out a Hair Salon while still in the RAAF.

After leaving the Airforce, I worked on the oil rigs in Bass Strait. Some of which like the original Tuna, perhaps my favorite rigs are no longer there… vaporised! Been caught up in many crazy strategies, ending up running and administering Cattle Station pastoral regions in the Kimberley and North Queensland. Also helped the Yolgnu people of Arnhem Land develop fishing enterprises to feed their people with their own nourishing fresh produce. Assisted them develop Australia’s first Yolngu Security Service. Set up a 3 hectare tropical garden. The aim being to present fresh nourishment for the people of Elcho Island in Arnhem Land. Also tried a free range chicken farm. Between the dogs, eagles and the boa constrictors a very dear project.

My belief is that nourishment is the key to health. We are the product of what we eat. Regrettably for many cut off native tribes of Australia, there is little to no manufacture of fresh produce. Many public problems are endemic, just as they are in the wider community, but perhaps more so due to the lack of employment opportunities.

Billions of dollars are spent on health for Native, Yolgnu and Torres Strait Islander pastoral regions, with little to no effect. I can remember one campaign against hook worm where tens of thousands of dollars were spent on providing pills. The challenge being the hook worm, even if they had removed the animal faeces that littered the community and immunised the dogs, lays dorment in the soil. Wearing bare feet and not removing the waste obviously did not solve the drawback. Likewise when children are undernourished their health system in later years will take its toll. Occasionally it may even be wrong diet. No wholesome fruit, vegetables or lean meat.

Needless to say Billions of dollars are still being spent on drugs and not prevention. Children’s Health starts prior to conception through the diet and healthiness of the prospective parents. Alcohol, smoking and other drugs are the first obstacle for the newly conceived embryo. Lack of proper diet by the mother during pregnancy are just the initial stumbling blocks. Then immediately following birth, not being breast-fed. Then I guess having seen so many outback communities where fresh food and local produce are not available as well as poor nutritional choices, governed either by lack of money, knowledge or choice continue the decline of health in these isolated regions.

Having lived out on the isolated regions for nearly a decade, I believe my health too could be far better. That is why I am a passionate believer in good nutrition. This should be right for all people. Subsequently this is where I have taken up the challenge to indeed find out if the word is more powerful than the sword.

Wishing everyone a HealthyLife4U2

Brendan J. Prendergast

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