101 Natural Health Remedies

Watch people eat and you will get some idea of how their digestion is. Whether it’s in the car, at a well set table, in a restaurant or at a desk, it should always be a conscious act. When food is simply the unconscious act of putting in food as fast as can be accomplished, it is a mix for disease. If that is what children memorize as mealtime we are setting the next generation up for indigestion and illness.

The human body is energy, something like 99.999 formless and the rest is apparent form. Choosing food should be with that fact in mind. Eating food with consciousness and gratitude assists our bodies to incorporate the energy of the foods we are eating.

Although meals are usually is a social time, the time can be planned as quiet, relaxing and mutually supportive. The dinner table is not the time for interrogation or reprimand. The more relaxing the meal, the more true interest and love shown around the table, the better the digestion will be for children for their lifetime.

Foods easily ingested by one child cause allergic reactions in their sibling. Lack of consideration in this area has resulted in at least a few children with chronic indigestion and bad eating habits for a lifetime. Food preferences go beyond likes and dislikes, being picky or being a so called good eater. It involves blood types and what is termed in Eastern Indian Cultures dosha types. Every person is unique and varied in what they are designed to digest.

So how does all of this relate to losing weight and being healthy? Foods not digested take more energy to move through the system than they lend to building the body. Foods not fully digested, move through the body slowly, use up precious energy, putrefy in the stomach and small intestine, and over years, line the colon walls. Over the years allergies come on board as well as pounds. A t this point it takes concentrated and disciplined effort to change the tides, that is lose weight and feel better about self.

Is it possible to change eating habits after years of abuse? Of course it is possible and it’s never too late. Will you have to give up everything you have a taste for? No, you will make some changes and simply eat more consciously, according to who you are and your body type. You will seek balance.

Your game plan will be to give yourself leverage. Youll never have to starve, maybe eat smaller and more consciously arranged meals, get a juicer and perhaps eat 75% raw or lightly cooked foods. Your food combining will be to eat fruits alone, perhaps in the morning, to eat proteins with vegetables, vegetables with carbohydrates, bread alone or with raw vegetables. You’ll simply make new choices.

Conscious food choices, gratitude, relaxing meals and pure water all lend to the health and radiant look we feel good wearing, no matter what age we are. Every choice for health and more discipline will empower you in every aspect of life. Every self-enhancing choice will also add to the environment and give a great example to the next generation. You will have the mind and body you want at all stages in your life. That’s really healthy aging.

Be Happy, Ellen Valentine, CNC

Nutritional education from health bodies are misleading concerning child nutrition. This is worrying, particularly as we struggle to provide our children with nourishing foods in an increasingly toxic world.

“Children’s health is in crisis as we
see more and more of our beloved
children suffering from too many
food related problems”

Here are the Facts Concerning Child Nutrition:

• Each year more of our children are suffering from many disorders including, fatty livers, allergies, obesity, diabetes, arthritis, sleep apnea, and raised insulin levels.
• Obesity in children is now a worldwide epidemic with 50% of children in America to be diagnosed as overweight or obese and 38% of children in UK by 2010.
• Here is the most worrying fact of all:

“Our children’s bodies are developing with the wrong type of nutrients which will set them up for a life time of disease from an early age, leading to a shorter lifespan!”

Giving your child the right type of nutrition now will increase their chances for living a long and super healthy life. After all, our bodies are designed to live to 120-140 years. It is the foods we eat and the life we lead that determines how long we will live.

I remember growing up in the seventies and my mum always made freshly prepared meals, including lots of pots of soup. Now I know that most homemade vegetable soups are healthy but not as healthy as eating your vegetables raw. However, I was a very difficult child when it came to eating my vegetables – even fruit! I just didn’t like the taste and physically felt sick. A big reason for that I believe is that my taste buds were dead! I craved sugary, sweet tasting foods as my mum baked a lot of cakes and I also ate a lot of dairy products and white bread. My mum did force me to eat well but I also ate a lot of the wrong foods too. I now know that a lot of my early childhood illnesses and subsequent adult onset diseases have been as a result of my diet as a child. No doubt about it.

We have been completely brain washed into thinking that child nutrition should be based on the ratios outlined in our government’s pyramid diet of, grains, fruit, vegetables, fats, meat, dairy and beans/pulses. The health pyramid states we need to eat more grains than vegetables and that half of our grains should be from whole foods. Well why not all? There are many flaws with this pyramid diet.

What is Wrong With This Way of Eating?

From birth our bodies are designed to live beyond 100 years. If someone lives beyond a 100 we think WOW – they must have good genes or what’s their secret? The fact is we are all meant to live well beyond 100. However, it is through the choices that we make in the type of foods we eat as well as lifestyle choices that will determine whether we have a healthy body or a diseased body.

Having either a healthy body or diseased body dictates your longevity.

A lot of parents are misled believing that child nutrition can consist of highly processed, foods. These foods are barely absorbed and therefore not nourishing. Also cooking foods at a temperature of above 117 degrees farenheit is not good . Cooking destroys the enzymes – it kills the foods (depending on how high it is heated). We need to eat living raw foods in order to gain any health benefits from them. Put simply – living foods provides life to our bodies and dead (cooked) foods provide just that, dead food!

Also, our bodies are made up of over 70% water. If we eat a diet that consists of foods that are processed then our body is not getting the right amount of water or nutrients it needs. These type of foods have very little water content and they also have very little nutrients.

The typical government recommended pyramid diet is a disease forming diet. Its proportions for health are way off. They also fail to supply further detailed information about the healthiest way to prepare foods for child nutrition and the effects they can and do have on the body.

Below are the recommended food groups:

Grains

We are encouraged to include plenty of grains in our diet, including corn, wheat, and barley. The problem with this is most people, including children, eat grains that are refined and made into white floury products. These processed foods convert to sugars very quickly in the body.

Eating wholegrain foods before they are processed are also not as healthy as we are led to believe. They contain phytic acid which blocks the absorption of essential minerals such as calcium, magnesium, zinc and iron.

They also contain very lttle nutrients and are best avoided. However, if they are to be eaten then they are best eaten when sprouted (left to soak for 8-10 hours before cooking) as this will increase any nutrients and enzymes of the grain many times over.

Children, and adults, that eat unsprouted grains suffer from digestive problems and are more likely to have allergies to gluten.

Vegetables

Eating a wide variety of fresh organic vegetables is the most important part of child nutrition. However, most families eat vegetables that are cooked. The process of cooking destroys and even kills the nutrients. Steaming is better as it retains more of the goodness. Even microwave cooking retains more nutrients. However, it is still not an ideal way to eat vegetables, especially as you then have the risk of EMF’s.

The best way to eat vegetables is in their raw state. Vegetables that are uncooked are full of living enzymes that provide lots of energy, water and nutrients to our body. Most vegetables, especially greens, are alkalizing to the body which is a great way to rid it of toxins and acids that build up in our cells and tissues. Acids and toxins in our body are very harmful and over time will cause disease and illness.

Fruits

Eating lots of fresh organic raw fruit is also very healthy for our body. Fruit does contain a lot of natural sugars but if eaten as part of diet that contains mostly raw foods is very healthy. However, most people eat fruit with other processed, cooked, acidic foods which is not ideal. Your body is already working very hard to cope with the extra sugars that occur from eating processed cooked foods and these natural sugars are mixing and fermenting which then causes a whole host of problems, including fatigue and diabetes.

Eating fruit on an empty stomach is best as your body quickly digests it. Also eating a low fat diet is recommended as fat interferes with the absorption of natural sugars.

Milk and Dairy Products

Child nutrition is usually associated with drinnking milk. The only milk humans should consume is milk produced from our own mother. Cows milk and goats milk are designed to be drunk only by their babies. Why? Because drinking milk from animals causes disease in the body

Not only that, milk is produced only to feed infants (whether it be human or animal) for a short period of time. It is a misconception that we need to continue to drink milk after we have adapted to eating solids. Many of us drink milk because we are told that it contains a good source of calcium which is vital to our bodies needs. Yes, it is very true that we need calcium.

However, the biggest reason we need calcium is because most of us have acidic bodies and our blood is under stress in this type of environment. It must remain at a consistent neutral pH. If it doesn’t it leaches calcium from our bones. This is what then puts our bones at risk of fractures, bone disease and osteoporosis.

The key is to keep your body in a partially alkaline state through eating plenty of raw fruit and vegetables and eliminating processed foods, diary products, sugars and grains. But the absolutely best way to make sure your child gets enough calcium and keeps their body in an alkaline state is to drink plenty of alkalizing mineral water.

Milk produced from raw almonds is a great way to nourish your child. You can also occasionally give your child rice milk (recommend Dream brand as this is most natural). I don’t recommend soya milk as it is also linked to disease in the body and a host of disorders.

Fats

With more children becoming overweight and obese it is essential that your child eats a diet that has more fruit and vegetables than any other type of food. Especially as they will provide them with the majority of essential nutrients.

The right type of fat in a child’s diet is also very important – especially in the early years when they are developing. Sadly, because more families are eating processed foods, most children are now being fed a diet which is high in hydrogenated saturated fats and monosaturated fats. These fats have no nutritional value and are highly dangerous to the body.

The best fats are polyunsaturated which are found in raw nuts, avacados, olive oil, coconut oil and seeds. Especially ones that have a good omega 3 to omega 6 ratio (higher amounts of omega 3 than 6 is best)

Even though a child eats only the good fats, best child nutrition is when no more than 25% of their food contain fats. Too much fat can lead to serious health problems as it interferes with the natural assimilation of nutrients. Too many children are now suffering from diabetes and heart problems due to clogged arteries and insulin problems.

Pulses (legumes)

Whilst pulses such as aduki beans, mung beans, lentils, and chickpeas are not essential to child nutrition they do provide some health benefits. However they are acid forming and if eaten with a diet that is mostly from acidic foods then they will be harmful to the body in the longer term. If you provide your child with a diet that is mostly alkalizing then it is ok to provide them with some pulses from time to time.

Feeding your child pulses that have been cooked is not as healthy as eating ones that have been sprouted. Sprouting increases the nutritional level. Please note the only one that can’t be sprouted is kidney beans as they are very toxic to the body.

The Most Important Part of Child Nutrition

The one crucial health promoting substance that the government and health organisations fail to mention is water. However, not just any water will do – not tap or bottled, but alkalizing mineral water. This type of water is essential to our body for cleansing it of toxins and waste and for aiding in absorption of nutrients.

If we consistently eat foods that are acidic and drink beverages that are acidic (yes, even water) then our digestive system will suffer. A healthy digestive system in essential as it both helps to absorb the nutrients from foods as well as cleansing the bowel and colon of toxins.

Child Nutrition Advice

Child nutrition should be about giving your child the right foods and water from birth to ensure that they live the long healthy life they are meant to. It is also not too late to start feeding your child organic alkalizing foods. Feeding your child these foods will switch on the anti-aging gene and allow their young bodies to develop at a slower rate. The rate it is designed to grow as nature intended.

Many children that are fed acidic diets are reaching puberty much sooner – as young as 8 in many western countries. This is outrageous but is totally within our control to change! Stop listening to the brainwashing lies that we are being fed. If the standard food pyramid we are supposed to follow is for optimum nutrition and health then why are more of our children becoming obese, allergic and ill?

You can take a sick child now, whether they suffer from diabetes, severe eczema, allergies, asthma – even cancer – and through giving them the right child nutrition that consists of mostly organic alkalizing foods and drinking alkalizing mineral water can be completely healed.

This is fact and has been proven time and time again through many testimonials received from several different sources, including respected biologist and nutritionist Dr Robert Young.

Giving parents the right child nutrition advice during pregnancy is paramount. Even the foods fed to your unborn child can be either damaging or blossoming. I sadly did not understand about acidic foods and the effects they can have on the body. I did not eat as much fruit and vegetables as I should have and took in a lot of dairy products and grains. I also did not drink enough water – and it was mostly tap water or occasionally bottled. Unfortunately my daughter Jade was born with severe eczema, allergies and asthma as a result.

Thankfully Jade is now completely well and is living proof that through eating mostly raw alkalizing foods you can heal a child that was born with allergies, asthma and eczema.

The more severe the illness or condition of your child then the more strict you need to be with eating raw, alkalizing foods. Even though this way of eating is nature’s most purist and healthiest diet, I strongly recommend seeking professional advice from a naturopath specializing in child nutrition. Also work in conjunction with a medical professional – particularly if you’re treating a child that has cancer, diabetes or other life-threatening conditions.

Childhood obesity has steadily increased since the 1960s. With an ever increasing amount of pre-packaged processed foods and a reduction in physical activity this is set to rise each year.

Childhood obesity is now at crisis point. With 16% of 12-19 year olds affected. These children are developing Type II Diabetes and high blood pressure at an early age. They are also at an increased risk for heart disease and other obesity-related diseases. Their weight makes them the target of bullies and children who insult and taunt them about their weight. This can ruin their self-esteem and put them at risk for depression.

Children today make up the digital generation. They’ve been surrounded by computers their entire life and are not as physically active as children of past generations were. Instead of going outside and playing, they tend to hang out indoors, watching TV and playing computer and console games.

Along with lack of physical activity comes the convenience of fast food. There are fast food restaurants virtually around every corner, and they have easy access to snack foods full of saturated fats and sugars. In addition, obese parents are more likely to have obese children. The reason for this is two-fold. First, obese parents probably pass down their poor habits to their children. Second, genetics plays a role in obesity.

It’s crucial that parents are healthy role models to their children and emphasize the importance of physical activity and healthy eating. Parents can create healthy environments for their children by doing regular physical activities, such as biking, swimming, or walking together. They should encourage their children to participate in a range of activities such as sports, dancing, and martial arts. This allows children to develop an appreciation of physical activity and enjoy exercising.

Far too often we reward our children for a job well done with food. Look for other ways to reward your children for doing a great job, such as a special shopping trip or a day with just mom or dad.

Childhood obesity, if not dealt with properly, can also trigger eating disorders such as anorexia and bulimia. These disorders are usually linked to an unhealthy emotional link between food and problems they are facing – such as their parents poor eating habits and bullying from peers.

Many children today don’t drink enough water. Often when we think we are hungry we are really dehydrated. Too many sugary drinks are consumed by children, when infact, they should be drinking pure alkalizing water which really hydrates their body and helps to eliminate waste and transport essential nutrients throughout the body.

When it comes to eating nutritious foods, parents need to implement diets that are rich in fruits, vegetables, and whole-grains. They can make eating enjoyable and healthy by preparing food together and eating together as a family.

Fast-food should be limited and reserved for special occasions. Also beware of foods that contain hidden sugars, like bacon, barbeque sauce, ketchup, salad dressing, cough syrup, and fruit juices.

If your child is severely overweight and suffers from obesity related illnesses then you can help them instantly by providing them a diet of mostly raw alkalizing foods which will bring their young body back to its naturally alkaline state.