Healthcare for children is a disaster. What is health care for children? Conventional medicine spends untold amounts of moneys vaccinating children for numerous illnesses. And yes, many childhood illnesses have declined due to vaccinations. However, epidemic numbers of children are suffering from a host of chronic illnesses such as autism, cancer, obesity, and ADHD.
I have been practicing holistic medicine for nearly twenty years. I have seen the consequences of feeding children a poor diet full of refined and devitalized foods. Feeding children a devitalized diet leads to devitalized children that will not reach their potential and suffer from myriad health issues.
My experience has clearly shown that the pathway to optimal health for us all is to eat a healthy diet. The pathway to raising a child who can achieve her full potential is to provide the child with a diet that supplies all of the valuable nutrients needed to help optimize their brain function. A healthy diet can also help the child optimize her immune and hormonal systems as well as all the other organs of the body.
Katherine Erlich, M.D., and Kelly Genzlinger, C.N.C., C.M.T.A, have written a must-read book for everyone who has children and for those who are thinking of starting a family. There is no doubt that the younger your child is when you begin optimizing his/her diet, the greater the tools he or she will have to succeed. These tools include vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and fatty acids. The Western diet is lacking in each of these vital items. For nearly twenty years, I have been testing children (and adults) for various nutritional levels. Eating a devitalized diet, full of refined foods, leads to multiple nutritional deficiencies and poor brain function.
We can and should do more for our children. It starts with mothers eating healthier diets. Erlich and Genzlinger discuss this in chapter 7. They point out that eating refined sugar and soy is not a good idea for mothers.
I see the benefits of properly feeding children. These children have less allergies, behavioral problems, chronic illness, depression, fatigue, and digestive problems. Furthermore, children fed a whole foods program as outlined in Super Nutrition for Babies have stronger immune systems.
The information in this book is for educational purposes only. It is not intended to replace the advice of a physician or medical practitioner. Please see your health care provider before beginning any new health program.
Some of the views expressed in this book are controversial and not widely accepted by the medical community. Some of the information in this book may be considered complimentary, alternative, or integrative medicine and may not be endorsed by governmental or academic institutions. Some of the supplements and recommendations described may not have received approval by the Food and Drug Administration or other regulatory agencies for the purpose for which they are suggested. Readers are encouraged to consult other sources and make independent judgments about the issues discussed.
All parents wish for their children to have optimal health. But today we have more to fear in terms of pediatric health than parents did just two or three generations ago. In fact, back when your great-grandparents were giving birth to your grandparents, the general public had never heard of autism, celiac disease was incredibly rare, and peanuts were synonymous with baseball games and springtime. Cancer, type 2 diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, and obesity were diseases of the aged. Just a few generations ago, children, by and large, were healthy, strong, and robust.
Many of the conditions kids face today are new and thus, are issues for which parents can no longer call upon the wisdom of mothers or grandmothers (who have no experience with stimming or EpiPens or nebulizers). Parents, perhaps even you, are turning to other parents in support groups and are becoming researchers, analysts, and metabolic specialists themselves in their quest to find help for their children.
Many of the 3C conditions are directly caused by our modern world, which is full of toxins and nutrient-poor foods (that are themselves a source of toxins). These toxins and deficiencies cripple many areas of the body, causing multiple symptoms and resulting in a veritable puzzle for modern medicine. Often, highly specialized conventional medical models fail to see the whole, for their strict focus on each of the parts. Looking at the whole child through a holistic perspective is often necessary to piece all the symptoms together when it comes to the 3Cs.
It boils down to this: Poor health comes from poor foods. Undernourished children are more vulnerable to infection, more susceptible to toxins and cancer, and more likely to develop learning, attention, and behavioral problems.
When researchers and anthropologists study nonindustrialized cultures, they find that they are often free of heart disease, cancer, infertility, emotional and behavioral disturbances, birth defects, diabetes, autism, life-threatening allergies, and other afflictions that are commonly accepted in our culture today. Even in just the last generation, we have seen a marked statistical increase in these conditions that experts remark are not attributable to better testing, awareness, or diagnosis. In fact, the 3Cs were so rare in preindustrialized cultures that these relatively new conditions are often called Diseases of Civilization.
Even as recently as when our parents were children, they had far fewer toxic exposures. They did not have genetically modified foods or high fructose corn syrup; they had fewer pesticides and far fewer antibiotics given to their food animals (and themselves); they were given significantly fewer vaccines, had no bromine in their bread, less radiation in their skies, fewer chemicals on their skin, no cell phones or laptops, and far more sun exposure and daily exercise. Their diets were fresher, more local, more pure, less processed, and substantially more nutritious.
Traditional wisdom, passed down through countless generations, directed parents to feed their babies the most nutrient-rich foods available, which included the meat, fat, and organs from poultry (including ducks and geese), red meat (including lamb and wild game), and fish and shellfish. Eggs, milk, raw dairy, bone broths, and even insects were also commonly found in preindustrialized diets. These foods were accompanied by select, seasonal fruits, veggies, nuts, seeds, and occasionally specially prepared grains and beans.
It is time to feed our babies differently than our current standard. Instead of relying on our newfangled Franken-foods of industrialization, we recommend going back to the more natural foods of preindustrialized peoples that did a far better job of keeping the children of our ancestors healthy.
Super Nutrition for Babies will help you reap the benefits that traditional foods can provide. It will show you how to make better food choices for your baby and how to prepare those foods so that they can be most nourishing. Your baby deserves nothing but the best!
I pretty much read this entire book in a few hours and recommended it to all my girlfriends with infants. I am so happy to have come across a book that covers proper nutrition, to help guide those parents that choose to feed their kids nutrient dense foods, opposed to fortified cereals. B & I will definitely be using this as our reference guide to feeding our little one!
I am taking care of my 5 month old grandson and I am strictly Paleo myself. I am going to make his baby food when he starts on solids. Does this book have recipes as well as the knowledge base for feeding babies properly?
What if just making a few simple changes could open up a whole new world of fresh, enlivening foods and an improved sense of overall wellness? I wrote my latest cookbook with these exact questions in mind.
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Despite the abundance of food at our disposal, our kids are losing out on fresh vegetables, fruits, whole foods in their diets. This means that they may be missing out on the essential vitamins and minerals that children's growing bodies need.
Rita F. of Tampa Bay, Florida, gave chlorella to her young daughter. She reports: " The difference in Angela is tremendous. After taking chlorella for 10 months, she is more alert, active and growing by leaps and bounds. In the last two months, Angela has started taking dancing lessons, joined Girl Scouts and started roller skating. She had no interest in these before."
And if you were worried that children would object to the flavor, Nelson reports: "He chews those little tiny green tablets like they are candy. He then smiles with a big green smile and puts his hand out for more."
I started giving chlorella to my children when they were eight months old. It makes a great alternative to sugar-y children's vitamins. Chlorella is a superfood and completely natural, and in my opinion is the best nutritional product that I can give to my children on a regular basis.
Dioxin levels were measured in the blood, fat, breast milk, cord blood and placentas of 44 pregnant women. Twenty-three of these women then took chlorella during their pregnancy. When the researchers measured the dioxin levels in the breast milk of the women after delivery, they found that the women taking chlorella had 30% lower dioxin levels in their breast milk than women who didn't.[3]
Not only that, but these same scientists repeated this research with 35 breastfeeding women. About half of the participants took chlorella. And the researchers measured their dioxin levels before and after chlorella supplementation. This time, not only did they see the same reduction in dioxin levels in the breast milk when the women took chlorella, they saw an increase in immunoglobulin A.[4]
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