Clara Marie Davis wrote a study in 1939 which is likely the world's longest, most detailed and most ambitious dietary experiment entitled The Self-selection of Diets by Young Children (1). C. Davis described what happens when children have a choice between 33 available healthy foods. They get to choose which ones and how much they want to eat. When this study was conducted doctors prescribed with great detail what and when and how much a child should eat in order to be healthy. Children ...
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Consider this before giving your children supplements
Sadly, America is overfed but malnourished. Despite the excessive food intake, the standard American diet leaves us with a lot of deficiencies. We do need a variety of nutrients each day to stay healthy, but since they are lacking in our diets, more than half of us take supplements. Some of us even take them not just to make up for what we're missing, but also to give ourselves an extra health boost. Fact is, the source of these nutrients is important. Nature is well designed and our ...
Natural ways to help your child with environmental allergies
Environmental allergies are an immune response to allergens (triggers) in our surroundings. Unlike food allergies, they are not a reaction to something we have ingested. Common environmental allergens are pollen, dust mites, pet dander, mold, and cigarette smoke. (1) When an allergen comes in contact with your cells they produce antibodies called immunoglobulin E (IgE). These antibodies trigger the release of histamine, which quickly travels through the body to fight off what it senses as ...
What’s with dairy?
Cows milk is designed to turn a 65 pound calf into a several hundred pound adult cow within a year. (1) Human breast milk is designed to make a baby grow physically slowly but generate rapid brain development. The human species is the only one to drink milk from another species, and we are also the only species to drink milk after weaning age. Milk is meant for babies. After weaning most humans (3/4 of the world population = 5 billion people!) loose the ability to digest milk ...