| A well nourished brain is vital to your child's creativity. | | | | because they make foods visually more appealing and |
| The body and mind can produce most of what you | | | | the taste more attractive. Some of the words |
| need with a good balanced diet, with the brain being | | | | offenders that eat away at your children's mental and |
| the master controller of the body as well as the mind. | | | | physical wellbeing are amongst others sunset yellow |
| We should be concerned about our children's mental | | | | dyes (E110), tartrazine (E102), carmoisine (E122), |
| health, and also which fats and foods can make our | | | | ponceau 4R (E124), the flavour enhancer monosodium |
| children smart and which make them not smart. For | | | | glutamate (E621) and the preservative sodium |
| example, children no longer consume enough of the | | | | benzoate (E211). |
| vital omega 2 fats contained in fish, which is crucial for | | | | Care needs to be taken in your selection of enough |
| their brain development and function. | | | | quality protein and essential healthy fats. The very first |
| Another common cause of a lack of essential healthy | | | | step to managing children with behavioral problems |
| fats is allergies and a low immune system. When the | | | | and learning disabilities is to return to more nutritional |
| intake of these complex omega 3 fats is too low, then | | | | eating and cooking habits, to start to replace the junk |
| the body can cleverly build its own essential fats from | | | | food with meals that are high in the basic raw |
| simple omega 3 fats that we find in nuts, seeds and | | | | materials that is required by the body and brain. |
| green vegetables. But then unfortunately this | | | | In addition, we should strive and try to remove sugar, |
| conversion process is ambushed by the high intake of | | | | diary and refined products from our children's diet |
| hydrogenated and saturated fats such as what is | | | | gradually by replacing it with fresh, unprocessed home |
| found in processed foods and unhealthy snacks. | | | | cooked or raw food. The fresher it is, and the closer |
| Essential trace elements that are required for the | | | | to the way nature intended and made it, the better. |
| normal development of a child's brain and immune | | | | We should teach our children to drink fresh vegetable |
| system are elements such as calcium, iron, magnesium | | | | and fruit juices, and to eat plenty of fresh fruit and |
| and zinc. Deficiencies in selenium, zinc and chromium | | | | vegetables. Teach them to drink sufficient clean water, |
| play a very important role in behavioral problems. A | | | | this is essential to the electrical firing of the brain and |
| dietary deficiency of zinc alone is known to lead to | | | | can not be overstated enough. We should also |
| aggression and depression in children. Partly because | | | | encourage our children to eat fat free soups along |
| of this we can see a rise in behavioral and learning | | | | with fresh lean meat, fish, eggs, nuts and seeds. |
| disorders and disabilities in today's children. | | | | The responsibility lies with us as parents to help our |
| We as parents should be worried about the use of | | | | children develop lifelong healthy nutritional eating habits |
| chemicals and artificial additives that occur in children's | | | | as they grow into adulthood by creating that for them |
| foods, for these do not introduce any nutritional value | | | | now while we can. |
| to foods. The reason these unhealthy stuff is added is | | | | |