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Super Immunity for Kids
Every parent wants a healthy child.
Good health should be a birthright, and no one is more aware of
that than today's parents. You belong to the most health-conscious generation in
history. You work out, take
vitamins, and are aware of the importance of good nutrition. You want to raise robust children who can resist infection
and disease and grow into adults who will achieve all their dreams.
Yet unknowingly you may be serving foods that actually prevent them
from developing and maintaining the strong defenses that nature intended
them to have.
Children have a remarkable ability to heal
themselves. Doctors and
medicine do not prevent or cure disease.
Antibiotics don't cure infections.
It's the child's own immune system that cures the infection.
The antibiotic just makes it a bit easier, but if the child's
immune system is weak, the antibiotic is useless and illness will return
time and time again. All of
this fighting off disease weakens your child's immune system and today's
"fast food" diets prevent your child from obtaining the
necessary nutrients to maintain a healthy immune system....excerpts from
(Super Immunity for Kids by Leo Galland, M.D.)
What’s a parent to do?
Before your baby was born, his defense system started
with the foods you ate. Your
own immune system, kept healthy with essential nutrients, protected
your unborn infant from most infections that threaten you.
After your baby is born, his defense systems begin developing.
It takes time for a child's immune system to develop fully, but
certain foods and substances provide the building block for this to
happen. Each time your child is exposed to an infection of some type, his
immune system learns that it is an unwelcome guest in his body and works to rid his body of this foreigner. It remembers for
the next time that this organism doesn't belong in his body.
In order for the immune system to work, the child
needs "Essential Fatty Acids" (EFA's).
The bad news is that he can't make these EFA's. They must come from his diet.
EFA's are found in many foods, certain oils, nuts,
seeds, beans, and ocean fish. Your child's need for EFA's depends on other
factors in the diet. For
example, if he is eating any of the following his need for EFA's will be
greater:
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the wrong kinds of foods for his blood type
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highly processed foods – the kind you get in a box
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sugar or salt on a daily basis
Oils are an important source of EFA's, but not just
any oils because many become unstable when heated and produce harmful
substances.
Organic olive oil is a good cooking oil, as long at
it is not allowed to smoke. It stores well in the refrigerator and remains
stable when heated at low temperatures for short periods of time.
Omega 3 and Omega 6 EFA's are important to your
child's immune system. Omega
6 oils are more prevalent in the foods we consume than Omega 3, and in
some cases there is too much Omega 6 and not enough Omega 3.
In order for your child to metabolize these oils he needs vitamin
B6, A, V & E as well as minerals (magnesium, zinc, copper, selenium,
and copper). That's where
fresh vegetables, seafood, eggs, nuts, and seeds come in.
Keeping sugar and salt intake low, washing vegetables
to remove pesticide residue or using only organically grown well washed
vegetables and fruits, and drinking lots of high quality water will help
your child metabolize EFA's in the food he consumes.
Good Sources
of Necessary Vitamins:
Vitamin A: carrots, sweet potatoes, winter squash, red peppers, broccoli,
liver
Vitamin C:
citrus fruits, red peppers, broccoli
Vitamin E:
oatmeal, almonds, unrefined EFA rich oils
Vitamin B-2:
dairy products
Vitamin B-3:
whole grains (except corn)
Zinc:
liver, other meats
Copper: fish,
kidney beans
Manganese:
brown rice, oatmeal, split peas, almonds
Selenium:
fish, oatmeal
Sulfur:
fish, meat, eggs
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Quick Tip
It’s not easy
to get children to consume oils. You can remedy this situation by
mixing together ¼ tsp. each of organic olive oil and omega 3 and
applying it to the soles of your child's feet and
body following the bath. EFA's
will be absorbed through the
pores during sleep.
NOTE: Flax oil MUST be either refrigerated or frozen
to maintain freshness.
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