How to Help Your Children

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How to Help Your Children

- Roger Mason

Many readers of this column are parents or grandparents and are concerned about the health of their children and their children's children. Today American children are doing worse than ever health wise. Thirty years ago you saw maybe one overweight high schooler per class; now it is epidemic no matter what the socioeconomic status. Go to a European country, especially an eastern European country, and you won't see this. Their diets are nothing to brag about either. Food is simply too expensive in Europe to get fat on- most people simply can't afford to be fat over there. We have the cheapest food in the world and the most variety of food in the world compared to our income. No one beats America, and that's both our blessing and our curse.

The best thing you can do for your child is FEED THEM WELL. Not with the USDA Food Pyramid, not with Wonder If It's Bread,not with fast food, not with Got Milk?, and not with 160 pounds of sugars every year.

The first thing to do is get your child off milk and dairy products. No more milk and no more dairy products. Find a brand of soy/rice/almond/oat milk that they enjoy. Use the non-dairy cheeses that melt and taste like dairy cheese. The next thing is to get your child off sweets and desserts. In rural Asia generally desserts are unknown and just not part of the meal. This is a good custom to follow- no desserts. No more refined foods, white bread, white rice, white pasta and white flour.

You think your child won't change? Realize your child WILL do as you do, and who's running the house anyway? Children hate to be told, "Don't do as I do; do as I say". You hated that when you were growing up. They will do what you do. Do not buy junk food and sodas or keep them in your house. If there is no soda pop, ice cream, cookies and cake how will they get any?

Pack their lunch. Better yet, have them pack their own lunch the night before. The public school lunch program is an abomination and causes poor health and all manner of disease. The private schools don't seem to be doing much better, either. Have them pack their own lunch before they go to bed and be very generous in giving them the healthy foods they need to really enjoy themselves. Make sure they get a thermos of hot soup, stew or chili, good whole grain sandwiches, brown rice with veggies, fresh salad, fresh seafood, fresh fruit. Their schoolmates will positively envy them while they look at mystery meat, glue gravy, instant potatoes, canned vegetables and junk dessert. Maybe the local hoodlums will hold them up for their lunch instead of their jacket the next time.

What about supplements? Children and teenagers need supplements. Actually, they need them more than we adults since they are still growing. Give an 80 pound child half the dose you take.Which supplements will really help them and which ones do they need at such a young age? If they are teenagers give them the same amounts you take. Please read the article Supplements for Younger People in our library.

Flax oil 1 gram is a good choice since they are surely low in omega-3 fatty acids. Keep this in your refrigerator. You don't need to give them half doses here. Flax oil is a better choice than fish oil

Beta glucan supports their immunity so they'll get less colds and flu. since they probably are not very low in this in their teen years. Read What Is Beta Glucan?

All Your Minerals since they will be missing many minerals. You aren't going to find another mineral supplement on the face of the earth to match this. You get free All Your Vitamins. The huge supplement corporations refuse to put out a decent mineral supplement because they have large advertising divisions, not research departments. A vitamin-only supplement, with no minerals, that contains the full RDA of all the 13 vitamins. This is very inexpensive. No combination vitamin-mineral supplement has all the minerals they need. Give them extra vitamin D in addition to the All Your Vitamins when they are not in the sun.

Natural vitamin E only 100 to 200 IU, as this is enough for children.

Acidophilus 3 billion units and keep this in the refrigerator and FOS 750 mg to help the acidophilus.L-glutamine one gram daily. Very important for their digestion. You don't need to give them half doses of this either. Hormone imbalance is unusual in children.

This is a short, but important list. They're young and they just don't need the supplements that are caused by aging.

Do not give your children prescription drugs of any kind. Whatever problem they have can be cured naturally with diet and supplement. Giving them prescription drugs will just poison them and worsen their health. Taking drugs for a cold or flu, for example, is an exercise in stupidity since no safe drug has anti-viral properties and can merely cover up symptoms somewhat at great cost to the rest of the body. If you child has a blood sugar problem of any kind this can be cured naturally with diet and supplements. If your child has cancer they can be cured naturally instead of butchered, poisoned, irradiated until they glow in the dark, and then die anyway a few years later after untold suffering. If your child is overweight or has high cholesterol, this can be cured by eating better foods and taking these few supplements. PREVENTION is the best medicine and good diet and lifestyle prevent disease.

This has to be a family affair. Everyone has to eat whole healthy foods. If you child doesn't like broccoli or asparagus for God's sake don't make them eat it. They'll just dislike it worse than ever. Cook your meals in a varied and international style so they are delicious and enjoyable. Natural food is much better tasting than junk food.