How to Get Your Kids to Eat Healthy Food

There seems to be a broad consensus that kids don't like healthy foods. If you go into a restaurant and look at the kids menu, it's usually about as far from healthy as you can get.

The truth of the matter is that kids like to eat what they're taught to eat. So when kids don't like healthy food, it's because they were given the sugary, processed and junk foods as small children and that's what they learned to like to eat.

I was appalled when my daughter was a toddler and I went to Mommy & Me gymnastics classes with her. There was a mom who gave her little girl, less than a year old, sitting in a stroller, red licorice to keep her quiet while the mom and her 3-year old son were on the gym floor.

Giving kids cookies, crackers, sugary processed cereals, candy, ice cream and other processed foods is what teaches kids to like junk foods. It's not in their genes.

Kids will like vegetables, fruit, whole and healthy foods if that's what they're given. If you give your kids only healthy foods, they may not like them all, but they'll choose their favorite foods from among the healthy foods they're given.

The best way to get kids to eat healthfully is to start when they're infants. However, you can teach older kids to learn to like healthy foods too. Here's a tool for the whole family to have fun with while you're learning to eat healthier.

A Gift for You

A new lesson will be delivered to your e-mail box every few days. Read each lesson carefully and do the assignment. You will quickly be well on your way to a healthier you!

Natural Healing Conference

Would you like to eat more healthfully, have a healthier lifestyle, and just look and feel better? Are you too tired and stressed, or just too busy to figure out how to do it?

Consider taking a healthy vacation, July 28 - August 3, 2008. The Power of Natural Healing conference is a week long event that will help get you started. Enjoy healthy food. Have some fun. Join the healthy lifestyle generation.

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Food Matters

New documentary on healthy food, the importance of good nutrition and the disastrous failure of our medical/sick care system.

A must see for anyone interested in real health!

This really needs to be spread around to educate people about how they are killing themselves by their food and sick care choices. And most importantly that there is a better way. They can be healthy ... and drugs are not the answer.

Watch the trailer here:

http://www.foodmatters.tv/cmd.php?Clk=2424893

You can view the movie online or purchase the DVD. It's well worth it.

It's a similar format as The Secret; very well done.

Help Get MSG Banned!

John Erb, author of The Slow Poisoning of America has petitioned the FDA to get MSG banned. That petition is now open for public comment at

http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocketDetail&d=FDA-2007-P-0178

You can read John's petition at the above link. All his points are supported by research studies. I've posted my comments as well.

MSG is a neurotoxin. It causes obesity, diabetes, excites nerve cells to death and more. It's in almost all processed food, even organic. It's in virtually all fast food. Even if you don't eat fast food, you probably know and care about a lot of people who do.

If you buy anything in a package - box, bottle, jar or can - you're probably eating MSG without even knowing it, if you don't know all the names it hides under.

The state of health in this country is abysmal. Removing this one toxic ingredient from our food supply would be one giant step in the direction of improving the health of the people in this country.

Please share any comment you have with the FDA, and if you could, pass this on to your network, the more comments we have the better!

Thanks for helping make our food supply safer.

Warning - Hotdog, Bacon and Sausage Lovers!

Eating processed meat can increase your risk of bowel cancer.

It takes just one small sausage a day or 1.8 ounces of any processed meat, according to a new study, to increase your risk of colon cancer by 20%.

In addition to hotdogs, bacon and sausages, processed meats include ham, salami, pastrami and deli meats - turkey, chicken, ham, roast beef and bologna. Most of these meats are preserved with cancer-causing nitrites.

Although some people say that eating meat in itself increases your risk of cancer, that isn't always true. If meat is prepared properly, cooked at low temperatures in the oven, meat can be a healthy protein option.

Nourishing Traditions, one of my favorite cookbooks teaches you how to prepare traditional foods, including meats and desserts, in a healthy manner.

It is always wise to include a lot of fresh, raw fruits and vegetables in your diet, 50-75% is optimal. Start off lunch and dinner with a dinner plate full of raw salad with at least seven different raw vegetables. Dress it with extra virgin olive oil and raw, unfiltered apple cider vinegar or fresh lemon juice. Season it with your favorite herbs and a little good salt like Celtic Sea salt. Follow with your meat, and steamed starchy and non-starchy vegetables.

Get more healthy eating tips here...

Take advantage of the April Special for Healthy Eating: For Extremely Busy People Who Don't Have Time For It.

Soda and Your Kidneys

I have long recommended against soda because it is empty calories and has no nutritional value.

Soda sweetened with sugar has as much as 10 teaspoons of sugar in a single can. A good way to get yourself on the road to diabetes and obesity.

Diet soda, generally sweetened with aspartame or splenda is a toxic cocktail that does not help avoid the obesity issue. In fact, diet sodas seem to be associated with an increase in obesity.

Sodas with phosphoric acid have been known to pull calcium out of the bones, thereby starting you on the road to osteoporosis. Every time I see a child with a broken bone, I wonder how much soda that child drinks and also how healthy their diet is. Osteoporosis has been known to start in childhood.

Now studies seem to be showing that sodas containing phosphoric acid increase the risk of kidney damage, including kidney stones and kidney failure.

Whether soda contains phosphoric acid or not, soda is not a healthy beverage.

For help in finding healthy drinks and foods, visit Healthy Eating Advisor or get a copy of Healthy Eating: For Extremely Busy People...