The beginning of a new year often prompts many to make resolutions regarding lifestyle. Some will decide to exercise more or to eat better or to get more sleep.
Nowadays healthier lifestyle choices are encouraged: a diet rich in whole foods, fresh fruits and vegetables, low in saturated fat. Unhealthy habits are discouraged: poor diet, inactivity, smoking, excessive drinking.
Part of a healthy lifestyle also includes making good choices regarding birth regulation.
Moral considerations aside, NFP, or Natural Family Planning, is very healthy. It is not only an effective method of birth regulation, it also has no physical side effects and, in my experience, helps a woman to understand and to know her body better. There are no pills or chemicals which go into the woman’s delicate system. There are no devices or operations for either man or woman.
Other methods, however, are not so healthy-inducing.
Each oral contraceptive pill or patch prescription includes an extensive insert outlining the many physical side effects: an increased risk of blood clots, strokes, heart attacks, headaches, breast cancer, mood swings, weight gain. Vasectomy comes with an increased risk of prostate cancer and dementia. Women who undergo a tubal ligation have increased risk of pain and hysterectomy.
For those who are especially concerned with the environment, the Pill is a likely culprit in contributing to the feminization of male fish.
https://www.aboutmyplanet.com/environment/study-us-fish-increasingly-feminized/
https://pubs.acs.org/cen/coverstory/86/8608cover.html
This is a great, informative NFP video:
My husband, James, and I are certified NFP teachers and we also teach NFP online. For more information on NFP or the classes we teach, email me at info@fullquiverpublishing.com
Copyright 2011 Ellen Gable Hrkach
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