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chia pudding. They might have a salad and
I'll make a sprouted chickpea or sprouted
and mung bean dip.”
“They have lots of hemp seeds and chia
seeds. I tend to keep them away from nuts.
I found that nuts, they’re quite mucusy.
They’re very hard on the digestive system,
and if I tend to let too many creep in, I
notice they get tired quicker and their
energy is not quite as bright.”
Hannah’s journey has also come with
some controversy, particularly within the
autism community. “I’ve reached out to
autism communities... and I’ve had death
threats and abuse at me from parents of
autistic children saying that I shouldn’t be
alive to be shouting that autism can be
healed, that it’s a disease.”
“Autism’s not a disease. Autism is a
symptom of an overloaded system, viruses,
bacteria, parasites, funguses, moulds. It’s
not something that’s incurable. There are
levels of it, of course, and if you have a
child that is completely non-verbal and
completely in a wheelchair it’s going to be
a much harder battle... but I was told that
one of my children would never speak or
walk.”
“I was also told that William would
never go to a mainstream school and I
would never feel empathy from him or
emotion from him. I mean, you can be told
something and you can connect in with
that label. I’ve been told I’ve got
Hashimoto’s so I’ve got a whole life ahead
of me with exhaustion and pain. Or you
can say, ‘I don’t accept that and I’m going
to fight and try any option I can to give
myself a better life’.”
And this is the message she now gives
to other mums. “I tell them, you can,
today, choose to be happy and you can
choose to see things differently. I need to
break those beliefs down, that this is a life
sentence, that this is not achievable.”
“It is powerful stuff and often people
fight it because of that. And especially with
nutrition. I have a lot of parents say, ‘but
you need meat for protein and calcium for
bones’. So I tell them, ‘Diary is not an
option for calcium, it actually leeches
calcium out of the body. You need to have
green leafy vegetables, you need to have
celery, and tomatoes, and oranges. All the
foods rich in calcium’.”
If you would like Hannah to help you
with your or your family’s nutritional needs
or to get some nutritional advice about a raw
vegan diet go to nourishtohealth.com.au.
the australian vegan magazine 47William (left) and Edward are now happy and healthy.Both boys are thriving.Edward (left) and William
love sitting down to a
bowl of greens.