One thing that truly disturbs me is the health of our children. It breaks my heart to see the sudden meteoric rise in childhood illnesses, allergies, disorders both behavioural, mental and physical.
Am I the only one that ponders these conundrums or are there other parents out there that wonder the same things? Am I the only one that ever says WTF? Actually, if I’m being completely honest, most of the time I say “WTFnF!!!!!”.
What I really want to do is encourage EVERY mum and dad that gives 2 hoots about their kids to scream “THIS IS NOT OK!!!” Because it’s just not.
I believe in my heart of hearts, and from all the research I have done, that **it’s the food**. Plain and simple. We are no longer feeding our children food, but food-like substances. We are poisoning them, slowly but surely. I am not even exaggerating. I am not talking about the occasional ‘treat’ of fast food. I’m talking about your bread and Weet-bix and Rice Bubbles and Tim Tams and Tiny Teddies and pasta and margarine and sauces and ice cream and muesli bars and biscuits and chips and juices and soft drinks. Your average, everyday type foods. These ‘foods’ are loaded with **Wheat – Sugar – Vegetable Oil – Soy**. These should be ‘NEVER’ foods.
I believe these ‘food’ stuffs are the cause of our modern disease epidemic. I believe they are just as dangerous to the human body as smoking is, if not worse. I am not even joking. A biscuit isn’t a ‘treat’. An ice cream isn’t a ‘treat’. French fries cooked in canola oil aren’t a ‘treat’. This is poison and is causing an emergency response inside your little humans body. You won’t get this information from the food companies, or from any health ‘authority’. As if they’d want the general public to know that. You’d stop funding them if you knew the truth.
Every little human deserves good food. They deserve the BEST start in life. They deserve to be disease-free. They deserve to know what it feels like to have their bodies fuelled by the right fuel. Please, please, please ONLY EVER give your children REAL food.
I made a promise to my children, well over a year ago now, to only ever feed them REAL food. I have not swayed from that, not even once, and they are teenagers with attitude. If I can do it, you can do it. I have no doubt you’ll see an almost immediate improvement in their health, their mood, their skin, their sleep, their eyes, their ability to concentrate. Try it, I dare you.
Just on a little side note …
My daughter spent most of the first 3 months of this year eating out at her BF’s house. (She is currently living with father in C’town). Eating nothing but supermarket packaged ‘food’. I could not believe the decline in her health in this short space of time. Like, I’m talking gobsmacking!! Mother was mortified. She was covered in eczema and looked so bloated, like she was having an allergic reaction. She was subsequently guided back to only eating real low carb high (saturated) fat foods and I’m happy to report she is now 10kg lighter and returning to her former healthy self. Phew!!!
What a brilliant post. It is hard at the beginning to go LCHF and there are trials almost daily to test us, but I just know it is the best thing for them. I love my 3 little ones, and will always do my best to feed them real food, wheat free, sugar free, low carb, high fat yumminess.
Hi nicky good post
Yes I agree western children diets are now to processed and are nutrionaly deficient compared to the golden yrs of 1950 to 1980 and unfortunately this is disproportionately true in the lower socioeconomic strata.
All the treats you mentioned are cheap to buy and with the norm off both parents working , the easy option.
Looking at the UN population demographics over the last 60 yrs the ave 10 yr in the top20 nations is smarter and taller but what health timebombs await?.
There is also a divergence in the mean athletic ability of the young in that whilst the youth records continue to drop in all sports the ave child is less fit than 20 yrs ago.
Well done in encouraging better nutrition and the lchf plan is a fine one.
I wouldnt put a developing child into a full ketosis effect diet though as there is no need for lowering their fat % as in overweight adults.
Why? Adults are in mitochondrial stasis, that is one cell dies one is made.
Children are still stem celling as it where , one cell dies three are made. Thats why they grow untill the genes switch the replication cycle to “adult mode” (when we crack that and we are close we wont age anymore).
Also re previous post ketosis happens to break fat into glucose and small/med chain fats (ketones) due to the neurons affinity for glucose.Theres not much research in forcing kids into ketosis except the medical records of its use to treat epilepsy but the link is obvious that it changes the neural transmissions in the treated child cohort as it is quite succesful in stopping childhood epilepsy.
A good healthy lchf diet of fresh produce is a nutritionally good plan for children but one with a slightly higher carb content than mum and dads ketonic version would suite there growing minds best I believe.
Dont get worried though the innuit and massi people raise there children on a borderline ketonic diet and they do well but they are way more paleo than what I believe your post are about. My opinion is only a informed one from my understanding of pediatric cellular function, not a exact truth (as that dosnt exist in science).
Anyway again well done, this is an important topic and you should be rewarded for putting the spotlight on our childrens health.
God bless, Elijah
Fantastic! The comment I got from my family (in laws) when I moved to Australia and said that there’s no chance in hell I would give my future children any chocolate and I would keep them away from sugar and starch for as long as I possibly could, given that when kids grow up and starting to eat at friends’ places, at nan’s etc simply was “child abuse” and “your kids are gonna get bullied”. ???Who is gonna bully a, let’s say two-year-old??? And I would rather say that fill the child with sweets before they’re even a year old should be considered as child abuse!
Oh, and I forgot to mention, Monique at LifeZone, a Swedish/South African blogger/writer/pre-school teacher/God-knows-what released a book yesterday about healthy low carb baby food! It is only released in Swedish yet though. http://www.lifezone.se/eng/2014/05/09/the-healthy-babyfood-book/