We have an excellent opportunity as parents to create lasting
happiness and health for the children, and it begins with what we give them to
eat. Experts believe that nutrition is responsible
for 80% or more of our health.
The biggest challenge for parents who choose excellent health
for their kids is sifting through the plethora of misinformation about what
constitutes a healthy diet.
If we are to depend on the information that is presented
to us by government health representatives such as nurseries or doctors, we are
relying on their level of education, which is minimal or non-existent when it
comes to nutrition, as well as other sources of information.
The food pyramid is not a reference upon which any food
decisions should be made.The essential nutrients required by the body to
support cellular health are quality protein and fats.
These macro nutrients
support brain and nerve development, healthy bone formation, and provide optimal
nutrition for digestion and assimilation of diet.
The best first foods for baby include organic liver (frozen
for a minimum of 10 days then fined) combined with runny egg yolk that has been
separated from the egg white after 3 minutes of cooking. Organic lamb's brains
are another good selection, as is the good quality bone broth that contains
superior nutrition in a form that is available to the body for use immediately,
making it very supportive of digestion and optimal development.
With the stomach as it is in an infant, the ideal scenario is
to support that maturation and development, the cells in the gut require fat
and protein (as these nutrients are the foundation for every cell in the body
and the majority of the cells in the body are found in the gut).
The foods that
challenge a less than optimal gut, an infant's gut, are sugars of all kinds,
including complex carbohydrates.
