I am not a nutritionist. I have no health background or foundation in wellness or sciences. I am a mother of two children, and a product of parents who taught me about good health. My parents were very "earthy" and emphasized good nutrition and eating the "right" foods. When I became a parent, raising my children on a healthy diet just was part of my nature, it was how I was wired. What I discovered, however, was that what I was feeding my children was not at all healthy and was doing more harm than good. Like many parents I was feeding my children, bagels and cream cheese, pretzels, cereal, toast, pasta and more pasta. Oh and yes, fruit and the ocassional vegetable that was willingly consumed. So what's so wrong with this picture? Most of the foods that my children were consuming were useless. They were mostly carbs and very little protein. No wonder there is such an epidemic of obesity among children. In fact, 1 out of 4 children are obese today! I'm not great at math, but this means that 25% of children are obese. So what's the problem? Is the problem that parents like me don't care or aren't trying hard enough? No. Of course not. Do you know that I went to the market today to find a wheat bread and as I read the ingredients discovered it had con syrup in it. Then, I proceeded to read the ingredients of all the wheat breads and could not find a brand that did not have corn syrup. Basically, our choices are limited to what we can buy. The quality of food has gotten worse than when I was a kid. I can only assume that we are lowering the quality to bump up the net profit. But, then again what do I know. I'm only a mother of two children without any background in health.
What I have learned in my quest to discover better health is that simply eating organic food is not enough to maintain good health. How is this? With the amount of money we spend on buying better quality food you would think we would be getting better quality food. Well, it is true that it is absent of pesticides. However, it is lacking in the same nutrients and the pesticide filled food. For years studies have been conducted and have demonstrated that our food is lacking in a laundry list of vitamins and minerals that it used to contain 50+ years ago because we are not replenishing the soil. No wonder people are getting more sick. No wonder cancer is on the rise! No wonder there is an epidemic of disease. So, not only do we need better choices in our food, we need a good quality supplement!
Where does this leave us with our children?
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