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Raising a Whole Food Child in a Processed Food World
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By Colleen Huber, Naturopathyworks
During at least some of their childhood, you've probably watched
your son or daughter notice "the grass is definitely greener
elsewhere." One of the biggest challenges to your family's
healthy lifestyle is your child's perception that other people
are privileged simply because they eat differently.
The parents' strategic awareness and preparation for a child's
fascination with the Standard American Diet (SAD) is paramount.
Adults also fall into conforming to SAD just because so many
other people are doing it. That said, what law states that you
must conform 100 percent to all majority cultural practices,
including some of those practices that are kind of dumb, and
definitely not good for your health?
At no time is the parents' advantage greater than in earliest
childhood for understanding the crucial role of food in setting
the course for either chronic disease or a lifetime of good
health.
At no other time is the parent's advantage greater for
establishing a healthy routine. By the time a child is ready to
start school, he or she is already developing a strong interest
in being like their friends and doing what their friends are
doing.
Use that head start to your advantage. You care way more about
the quality of your child's food for several years, including
pregnancy, before your child begins to feel pulled by the
influence of those outside your family.
Use that time to create a bubble of a near-perfectly healthy
lifestyle your child will get used to and will associate with
home and family for the rest of his or her life.
Changing to a whole-food diet can of course be accomplished
later, at the expense of tantrums, grumbling and other
exaggerations of angst. The earlier you do it, the easier it can
be.
Creatinga Routine
An easy, healthy routine is your greatest strength, because when
you begin getting used to buying, preparing and eating whole
organic foods, and make them the first impulse for meal
preparation, remember you are building a solid dietary
foundation for your children's diets and fulfilling their
expectations of healthy good food being a part of their daily
lives.
If you still don't believe making the transition to whole food
is easy, please take a look at my article on how to cook whole
food from scratch. It will become second nature for them as well
to reach for whole rather than processed foods and to value
those produced without synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, MSG,
sweeteners and preservatives.
Kids learn from familiarity to appreciate the great energized
feeling they get from a glass of raw milk, a handful of carrot
sticks or a meal with dark leafy greens.
If you are just now transitioning to a whole-food diet, let your
children fill up on as much whole healthy food as they want. The
practical advantage of eating whole fresh foods: Kids
substitute, by their sheer bulk, the chemicals and denatured
food derivatives that we might otherwise eat.
My suggestions for starting your kids off on the right foot:
1. The earlier you start the easier and the more effective your
efforts.
Breast-fed kids have huge lifetime health advantages over
formula-fed babies. You will never again have the opportunity to
make such a strong health impact in such a short amount of time,
and for less effort and expense than formula feeding. Even if
circumstances only allow you to breastfeed your child for a
short time, the advantages are enormous and will manifest
throughout your child's life.
2. The first solid foods a child eats should be whole foods,
like cooked squash, carrot, broccoli and other vegetables,
avocado,
banana and watermelon.
Snacks and meals for toddlers and preschoolers should be
entirely whole foods. Their beverage is water, and that's it,
until you find a raw milk source. And even then, the main
beverage is water. Toddlers do not need to know that things like
pasta and ice cream exist.
Parents who exclaim, "But how can I feed them healthy food when
macaroni and cheese is the only thing that they'll eat?" have
started off with the wrong items in the kitchen, and are going
to have to endure some tantrums to establish a better way of
eating. This will be made easier if you keep the television away
from them.
3. TV teaches a processed food and pharmaceutical lifestyle.
The messages you're striving to keep your child away from are
delivered continually:- Eat out, or open a package to get
your ready-made food.
- Pour yourself a glass of colored
liquid.
- Your life is just not happy until you take a
pill.
If you have to de-program what the TV is telling your kids, you
won't be able to compete. Nobody can! TV is so flashy and
persuasive that you'll be like Sisyphus always having to roll
his rock back up the hill.
Either get rid of the TV or keep it in a room that always
remains locked, to be viewed together only occasionally (when
you want to watch an age-appropriate movie or program with
them). Kids raised without TV are easily spotted by their
teachers: They're the ones with good focus and lengthy attention
spans.
Some families who decide against TV after their kids are already
hooked can resolve this issue any number of ways:- One
day, the TV becomes mysteriously "broken," and parents just
don't get around to buying a new one.
- The TV has to make way
for some new bookshelves and ends up on a high shelf in the
garage. Anybody who wants to watch it has to go stand next to
the car to do so. Suddenly, the flashiness loses a lot of its
grip on your children's minds.
Lookfor the rest of Colleen's list in the next eHealthy News You
Can Use.
Colleen Huber is a wife, mother and student at Southwest College
of Naturopathic Medicine in Tempe, Ariz., where she is training
to be a naturopathic physician. Her original research on the
mechanism of migraines has appeared in Lancet and Headache
Quarterly, and was reported in The Washington Post.
Her double-blind placebo-controlled research in homeopathy has
appeared in Journal of the American Institute of Homeopathy,
European Journal of Classical Homeopathy, and Homeopathy Today.
Her Web site Naturopathyworks introduces naturopathic medicine
to the layperson and provides references to the abundant medical
literature demonstrating that natural medicine does work. Next
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Dr. Mercola's Comment:
Future naturopathic doctor and mother Colleen Huber has written
an awesome piece that describes the diligent work it takes to
raise a young child in a healthy environment among many
temptations and distractions.
About the only area Colleen didn't cover in her comprehensive
article is an important one when you're transitioning your child
into better health habits: Get them moving away from the couch
to the playground. In fact, running or jumping -- instead of
swimming and biking -- may be the best way for your kids to
strengthen their bones.
About the author:
This article is reprinted from Mercola.com, the world's #1 most
visited and trusted natural/alternative health website. For a
limited time only, you can take the FREE "Metabolic Type Test"
to help you learn the right foods for your particular body type
so you can achieve optimal fitness & health. Just go to
http://www.mercola.com/forms/mt_test.htm right now to take this
quick test!
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