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Healthy eating for kids can be tricky… what do your kids like to eat on a regular basis? Most parents say that their kids prefer to eat the junk food: macaroni and cheese, candy, chips, cookies, and any other treats that they can find. Even though your kids want to eat these things, it is important to remember that you should teach your kids about healthy eating habits.

Start out by talking with your kids about the benefits of eating healthy foods. Help them to understand why it is good to eat whole foods and what those foods do to help their bodies. Explain how healthy foods provide our bodies with the nutrition that we need to grow, repair, and be strong.

Include your kids in the food planning processes. Let them help to plan the menus, and then take them grocery shopping. The grocery store is a great place for children to learn about all of the food options that are available. Walk them through the produce section and explain why fruits and vegetables are better than candy and sweets.

Another great way to help your kids eat more healthy foods is by having them help with meal preparation. Even little kids can help by standing on a chair and do small tasks. Show them how to prepare healthy meals, and they will feel pride in their work as they are helping to prepare the family dinner.

Focus your families eating habits around healthy foods, but it’s OK to allow them to have a treat every now and then. Talk to your kids about how it is ok to eat treats occasionally, but most of the time they should be focusing on eating healthy foods that will provide them nutrition.

Your kids may be resistant to healthy eating, so keep in mind that it takes time! Be patient and continue to work with them, and over time you will find that healthy eating for kids is easier than you originally thought!

Despite the widespread use of juice and food-supplemental therapy, it is my considered opinion – based upon sound theory and long experience – that the use of fruit and vegetable juices and special foods, in addition to, or as a substitute for a fully balanced diet, is;

o unwise,

o not in accordance with the fundamental principles of natural healing and

o ultimately, counter-productive.

I strongly disapprove of this practice.

The use of ‘food supplements’ – no matter what form or nomenclature, is a desperate deviation into the realm of ‘curative dietetics.’

Any attempt to supply allegedly missing trace elements or vitamins by eating extra foods or juices will be unsuccessful, and can only lead to disappointment, frustration and sometimes, tragic results.

If you want to produce the best;

o Blood

o Cells

o Tissues

o Organs

o Systems

…then we must put into our body the best quality product.

The best food for the human organism is a combination of;

o Fruits – approx 50% of our diet.

o Raw or lightly cooked vegetables – approximately 35% of our diet.

o Starches (complex carbohydrates) – approximately 10-15 % of our diet.

o Proteins (concentrated foods) – approximately 5-10 % of our diet.

For the average person – on a daily basis – this weighs out to approximately;

o 750 gms of fruit

o 4-500 gms of vegetables

o 1-200 gms of starch

o 60-100 gms of protein

These amounts will be adjusted ‘slightly’ to accommodate the individual’s lifestyle pattern.

There is no thing – manufactured or grown – that has any more power than that which is contained in the metabolism of each and every cell that makes up your person.

You cannot add to the sum total of your vitality.

You can only conserve that which you presently possess.

A diet based on the information contained above will provide an environment conducive to the free flow of blood, lymph and nerve force.

For the betterment of your health and vitality – stick to a diet of living, live, whole foods.

Kevin

Spirulina and Chlorella belong to a family of tiny organisms, many millions of years old, and generally classified as algae. They are the two most commonly, commercially cultivated algae produced for today’s health food and health supplement market.

Spirulina and Chlorella are perfect whole foods, true superfoods . They have perfect compliments of protein (60%) carbohydrates (19%), fats (6%) bio-available minerals (8%). They are not extracts, concentrates or amalgams of vitamins and minerals that look good on paper such as the vitamin and mineral supplements that people generally believe to be healthy. In reality, the body does not absorb 90% of these vitamin supplements because they are dead, void of enzymes. On the other hand, eating Spirulina or Chlorella is like eating any other whole food such as a banana, apple or broccoli.

Health benefits of Spirulina

Spirulina is extremely high in protein as well as essential fatty acids, vitamins B1, B2, B3, B6, B9, B12, C, D and E and minerals such as calcium, potassium, iron and zinc. Spirulina assists with muscle building, weight loss and as treatment for certain types of cancer.

Health benefits of Chlorella

Chlorella is rich in many of the same nutrients, yet chlorella also acts as an antioxidant. Chlorella is one of the highest forms of chlorophyll and has been used to prevent cancer. As a dietary supplement, chlorella is used to cleanse the body. Chlorella is also used to rebuild nerve damage in the brain.

Which one to take

Spirulina is a nitrogen based blue green algae and has the predominant odour of seaweed. Chlorella is oxygen based green algae that have the predominant odour of fresh grass. Chlorella gets its name from the high amount of chlorophyll in it, up to 10 times that of Spirulina which is itself quite high in chlorophyll. Chlorella belongs to a class of algae called chlorophyta.

Spirulina is an extremely high energy food, great before or after a workout and is very good for the treatment of arthritis. Chlorella is excellent for digestion, heavy-metal detoxification, and is a immune system builder. Therefore, the answer to the question as to which of these two algae should you take is that you should definitely have both of them in your diet.

You are what you eat. Your health and well being depends largely on what you put into your body and how you use your body. A balanced diet, regular exercise, and no nasty habits like smoking, drugs or excessive alcohol, and you are likely to enjoy good health.