Hi Kitty

Sometimes you have to smile.

Here you are trying to get your children to eat the very foods that I am trying to steer my teenagers away from, and it isn't easy either!

Over the past year I have learned a lot about nutrition that I wish I had known about a lot earlier.

Dr Weston Price’s research demonstrated that humans achieve perfect physical form and perfect health generation after generation only when they consume nutrient-dense whole foods and the vital fat-soluble activators found exclusively in animal fats.

(www.westonaprice.org)

‘Starchy’ foods such as bread, cereals, potatoes, rice, noodles, oats, pasta etc are not nutrient-dense and most are ‘empty’ foods without fortification (which is when the food manufacturer and not nature add the vitamins and minerals to the foods concerned).  Crisps are not only ‘empty’ but they also contain harmful polyunsaturated vegetable oils and other additives and flavourings. (But my kids love them!)

I am trying to avoid ‘empty’ refined or de-natured foods and concentrate on organic nutrient-dense foods which include plenty of animal products including their fats (especially butter), eggs, lacto-fermented products (eg yoghurt, salami etc), seafood, organ meats (eg pate), and green leafy vegetables.

We have been an allergic family but have managed to successfully eliminate all our allergies including shellfish which I am now eating with no problems.

The Weston A Price Foundation is dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human diet through education, research and activism.

It was widely reported in the press earlier this week that a high-fat breakfast of bacon and eggs may be the healthiest start to the day.  The word is spreading but the Food Standards Agency and the NHS still haven't got the message.

I have experienced some of the anxiety and difficult behaviour you describe and it was dealt with very effectively through Homeopathy. 

Take a look at www.gaps.me for further information on digestive disorders and effective nutrition.

I hope you find this helpful.

Best wishes

Margaret