Nutrition for Kids

The diet children and teenagers will follow for the next fifty years is probably the most significant factor in the overall health they will experience for the rest of their life, not to mention next week. Daily nutritional deficiencies or lifestyle excesses are a pretty good predictor of where one's health will be in a few years. 
Yet the Standard American Diet has a lot of problems. Vitamin and mineral deficiencies are common. Fiber levels are one tenth of that of our historical diet.
Childhood Obesity has become an epidemic. Caloric sweeteners definitely share a big part of the blame. Check these statistics and get a handle on why American children are in big trouble.

A quick checklist of handy tips for feeding your family with natural foods

Are you wondering if your child’s health problems could be related to the foods he or she is eating? Have you found it difficult, or darn near impossible, to “cure” simple health issues with the available over the counter and prescription medicines offered by your pharmacist and/or doctor? If the answer to either of these questions is “Yes!” then it is possible that your child may be experiencing the symptoms of food intolerances or allergy.

As the primary providers of nutrition for children, it’s crucial that parents recognize that the foods their kids eat really do affect their health, even as adults! Ask your doctor or naturopath about ways to maximize your family’s intake of healthy foods, and try to resist that Drive-Thru. It really could kill you.

When we talk about kids and sugar, the bottom line question often really is, “Does eating a lot of sugar truly cause diabetes?”

The Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS), a section of the National Institutes of Health, recently completed a study aimed at determining the prevalence of dietary supplement usage, but also intended to reveal which nutrients children were taking.

Our ancestors, until very recently, ate a diet that included 10 times as much fiber as the Standard American Diet. Fiber is critical to many functions in the intestinal tract, including digestion and waste elimination. It also has a mild cholesterol-lowering effect.

For the sake of your children, start early to instill food choice values and give children early exposure to wide palette of food choices.

Eating for health takes consistency, commitment and discipline. You need a plan, and you need to work out a scheme for gradually adjusting your food choices in a way that ensures success.

The diet you follow for the next fifty years is probably the most significant factor in the overall health you will experience for the rest of your life. Your nutritional needs have a profound effect on the way you will feel decades from now, not to mention next week.