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6 Physical Symptoms You Wouldn’t Think are Related to Food
Over 200 physical symptoms, conditions and diseases that you wouldn’t think are related to food can actually be caused or worsened by food. We eat food every few hours, all day long; it is the main substance that we ingest yet many of us refuse to believe its impact on the body. “The incidence of diet-related problems is greater than the incidence of any other type of illness affecting mankind.” James Breneman. What are 6 of these diet-related problems?
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9 Ways to Cleanse The Body and Eliminate Toxins
As a Pediatric Nutritionist, I often counsel parents on ways they can raise a healthy child. It isn’t just about how we feed our children but how we help them cleanse their bodies and eliminate toxins as well.
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Meeting Our Children's Needs Through the Lens of the Heart
I wanted to share samples of healthy chocolate bars, called Twilight, with the class. The boy asked me if he could distribute the chocolates to his classmates. Out of the corner of my eye, I could see his teacher start walking towards him, as if to prevent this from happening. The boy knew she was coming and looked at me with fear in his eyes.
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Autism – A New Understanding
A woman brought her son into my office and within minutes, he started moving his hand, making waves in the air above his head. His mother saw this and said, “You see that is not normal. That is one of the reasons I had him assessed!” I asked the mother if I could talk to her four year old son. She gave me permission and I asked the boy if he was seeing numbers above his head. He said “Yes.” I asked if all the numbers went together. He said “Yes, big numbers, all fitting together.” I said to his mother “You see, children with autism don’t fit into our norm but that is only because they are way beyond us.” His mother was completely taken aback. The intelligence of children with autism is immeasurable; our usual tests cannot measure it. And unfortunately, our regular school systems often bore these children.
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12 Little Known Facts about Commonly Eaten Foods
People are often surprised to learn these 12 little known facts about foods they commonly eat. I thought I would share these with you this week. Did you know?
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Drugs for ADHD – Side Effects and Repercussions
You will notice that many of these behaviours are commonly found in children as well as adults! Unfortunately, 90% of children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD/ADHD) are prescribed Ritalin or similiar drugs. Ritalin is actually a class 2 controlled narcotic, in the same category as cocaine, and is highly susceptible to abuse and dependence. The two most common side effects of Ritalin are insomnia and lack of appetite – lack of sleep and lack of nutrients, pretty major side effects. And most of the children that are prescribed Ritalin, end up becoming a shell of their former selves because a type of numbness sets in. Other side effects of Ritalin include:
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3 Things Doctors Don’t Tell You About the Flu Shot
This mother had contacted me after the first dose of the shot, describing similar symptoms. After that dose, the children were sick and miserable for 3 weeks. It wasn’t until the children had the second shot, that their mother realized it was the flu shot that had paralyzed their household for so many weeks.
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Delicious, Easy and Healthy Recipes for Kids Created by Nutritionists
I decided that it was time to provide you with some DELICIOUS, EASY and HEALTHY recipes created by Nutritionists for your children! The first two recipes came from my book The Resourceful Mother’s Secrets to Healthy Kids and the last one came from my wonderful friend, a fellow nutritionist, Nancy Morency.
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Using Love to Discipline Your Child
So, there is the approach that employs fear and makes your child fearful of making mistakes or fearful of others or even worse, fearful of you. Do you need to instill fear in your child? No, that is a choice you make. A fearful child does not believe in themselves. A child that does not believe in themselves has a hard time getting through any aspect of life. But then, there is this whole other approach – the approach that employs love. Which approach raises a stronger, happier child? Which approach provides a child with tools from which to draw upon for the rest of their lives? Which approach brings you and your child closer? The one that employs love.
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Genetic Roulette – Avoid Dangers of Genetically Modified Foods
The sales of products with GM free labels have increased from 348 million to 1.5 billion in the United States because the research on the horrific effects of genetic modification on the human population is becoming known. The movie talks about and provides numerous studies on the link between GM foods and increased sickness, infertility, miscarriages, birth defects, autism, conditions and diseases caused from inflammation and weakened immune systems (allergies, hypothyroidism, Parkinsons, cancer etc.) in North America.
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