The NEW Food Pyramid – What to make for kids
Another year and even more opportunity to support and improve our children’s health! Happy New Year to all of you and welcome to the NEW and improved newsletter from Real Healthy Kids. As many of you already know, I am committed to improving the health outcomes for our children and I will share with you the latest research, health protocols and any relevant information that has the capacity to help our children achieve their maximum potential for health and happiness. Let’s start the new year with a look at a guide that can help us on a daily basis to ensure the nutrient ...
What to do if Your Child Gets Sick or Injured – Natural Remedies
This week I would like to look at how we can naturally support our children’s health in a range of common health challenges. We are often too quick to medicate our children with pain killers or antibiotics and a whole range of other pharmaceutical medications which are not essential and are now known to be damaging to health in a very profound way. As parents we have a responsibility to keep our kids safe, this means thinking beyond helping them cross the road to include their health and wellbeing as well. What you might not know is that you already have a ...
Is Sugar Toxic to our Kids?
Any of you that have been to my workshops have heard me bang on about sugar being responsible for the epidemic of dis-ease we are seeing amongst our children, and I’m still not done! Dr Robert Lustig who is a Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California is a leading expert in childhood disease and a pioneer of research into sugar metabolism. His vast research has led him to the conclusion that “sugar acts as a toxic substance that wreaks havoc on your health, particularly fructose”. Now is the time for use to take notice of this proven beyond doubt ...
Natural Health for Your Child – Nutrition, Herbs & Homotoxicology
With more and more medical research warning us of the dangers of inappropriate pharmaceutical use such as antibiotics and paracetamol, particularly with children, what are the options for managing common health issues that arise? Food, herbs and homotoxicology are all options you can easily use everyday to support your child's health. Whether it is to maintain general health or to treat a range of typical health issues such as sore throats, coughs and colds, asthma or tummy trouble just to name a few, these forms of health treatment and management are entirely safe and extremely effective. The food that you feed your child ...
How to Treat a Child’s Cough With Natural Remedies
A cough is the body’s normal reaction to irritation in the throat, bronchial tubes or lungs. The purpose of the cough is to expel mucous that contains the offending substance eg the virus or bacteria or pollen for example. In fact coughing can be a life saving reflex if something gets stuck in the throat and blocks the air passages. Coughs are usually caused by viral/bacterial infection such as colds or bronchitis or even allergies. Our immune system works tirelessly to address the cause and expel the invading organisms through coughing and other mucous producing activity such as sneezing or runny ...
The Coconut – Superfood for your child
When looking at making healthy improvements to your child’s diet, you can’t go past the coconut. The coconut provides a nutritious source of meat, juice, milk, and oil that has fed and nourished populations around the world for generations. This highly beneficial food serves a multitude of functions for health and it can easily be used on a daily basis in your home. The western view of the coconut hasn’t always been positive. Being largely a saturated fat it was classed as “unhealthy” and “bad” for us. Research has turned this view around and the oil from the coconut is now ...
Foods That Protect Your Child’s Skin
More and more research in recent times has been directed to determining endogenous (inside the body) defence mechanisms to protect the skin from sunburn, skin diseases and premature aging. These endogenous defences are driven by specific foods that are now known to be effective in a range of clinical trials. I recommend including the foods listed below in your child’s diet daily all year round. The research has shown that foods that are high in lutein, carotenoids, beta-carotene, Vitamins A, C, E, essential fatty acids and phytonutrient antioxidant chemicals as being the key micronutrients to focus on to promote optimum skin ...
Vaccination – What you need to know
Whether to vaccinate or not is a hotly debated topic! Those on both sides of the debate are passionate about their stance and are often intolerant of those that choose a different approach. I believe that vaccination is a very personal decision and I respect anyone who takes the time to research their decision and make an informed choice that is best for their child. I do think we need to be realistic about what vaccinating can do for our children's health. It certainly is not a mandate for ongoing good health and it is also not 100% effective. I have seen ...
When to introduce solids to your baby
Article by Sally Gray The Time Has Come For Baby's First Foods! That first 6 months is down and now the fun really begins! Be prepared and grab your sense of humor, you'll need it! For the first little while, you or the floor will probably end up WEARING more of baby's first foods than she actually eats! Remember all the advice you got when you were pregnant, well its back! Did you know you knew so many experts? Most importantly, find a routine that works for you ... and stick to it! The ideal time to introduce baby to foods has been ...
Introducing Solid Foods to Baby – Top Tips
Article by Sally Gray Having read my article "Positively Impact the Health of Your Child From the Start", you will understand when I say the greatest gift you can give you child is fresh, home prepared food. For the first little while your baby will only be eating small portions. It is extremely important that what you feed her is quality, nutrient dense food. Foods that are packaged, contain artificial colours, flavours and preservatives, fried food and processed foods are not suitable for your baby. Your baby's body simply does not recognise these foods and they are potentially harmful. Being a parent ...
Positively Impact the Health of Your Child From the Start
Article by Sally Gray Introducing solid foods is a milestone and one way we as parents can really impact our child's future health on all levels. We are living in a convenient age and marketing would have us believe that we can simply buy ready-made baby food and that is sufficient. Well it’s NOT! We need to wise up as parents and caregivers and realise we are the ones that know best for our kids and we are not going to be fooled any longer. How can something that has been stripped of nutrition and flavour and comes conveniently ready to serve ...
The Allergy Season – Sneeze Proof Your Kids
Spring has sprung and by crikey the wild flowers and blossoms are bound to be spectacular this year with all the rain we’ve had. This means hayfever and seasonal allergies could be bigger and better than ever. So why wait until your child is suffering to do something. Preparation and prevention are the BEST defence so follow the tips below and help your child enjoy the season ahead. The tell tale signs of seasonal allergies include sneezing, itching eyes, itchy throat, post nasal drip, fatigue and coughing which is often worse in asthmatics at this time of year. These are caused ...
The Goss on Grains – why they are NOT beneficial to health!
Ok, so this week is slightly controversial because I want to talk about a subject that is at the very heart of almost every meal, a subject that is widely misunderstood and needs to be addressed because it is central to many poor health issues that I see in kids every day. We are going to talk about grains, also known as starches or complex carbohydrates, refined if it’s the white version. Did you know that this group of carbohydrates is largely unnecessary for good health? Grains do not provide any nutrient that cannot be sourced in better quantities from other ...
Chickpea Your Way to Good Health
The humble chickpea, or garbanzo bean as they are also known, is one of the most nutritionally potent foods you could ever hope to eat. Chickpeas contain a whole host of nutrients including soluble and insoluble fibre, protein, complex carbohydrates and antioxidants, not to mention an awesome array of minerals and vitamins and immune boosting power! Just 1 cup of cooked chickpeas contains half the adult RDI of fibre. The 2 kinds of fibre contained in the chickpea mean that its gut supporting capacity is very special indeed. The soluble fibre provides necessary bulk but the insoluble fibre remains unchanged until ...
The Facts on Fats
Fats are often an area of confusion when it comes to health. We have been mistakenly led to believe that fats, particularly saturated fats, are bad for us and can lead to heart disease. But did you know that less than 1 hundred years ago, heart disease was never even heard of and obesity was a very rare thing indeed. In fact, populations that consume the most saturated fats and good fats are amongst the healthiest in the world. So how is it that the information we have been given can be so wrong? Research has now recognised that it is the ...
Boost Your Child’s Health At Breakfast
It’s easy to get bogged down in foods to AVOID. One of the last ones to look at in our list of the “Dirty Dozen” is Sodium Nitrite or Nitrate. These are found in all processed meats like ham and salami and are known to cause cancer of the colon, breast, prostate and cancer. But I would like to take the opportunity to focus on the positives! The things we CAN do daily to ensure our child has maximum immune function during the toughest time of year and stays as vibrant and healthy as possible. A healthy immune system equates to good health. Finding ...
Parasites – Natural Remedies
It’s already week 2 of the year so let’s get stuck into the nitty gritty of keeping your children healthy and on track and give their immune systems the best start to the year. It’s a fine line between allowing children to be children and get a little dirty, and being too clean which results in children being exposed to a sterile environment and too few bugs and immune challenges. Researchers now believe that a little dirt is beneficial to the development of the immune system whilst a sterile environment can adversely affect immunity. The increase in auto-immune type conditions such ...
