Our Children Are ... What Our Children Eat

Dr. Laura Thompson's first book, Our Children Are ... What Our Children Eat, remains popular today with its timely information about the relationship between children's health and the foods they eat. Now in its thirteenth printing, each version has been updated where necessary to present the latest findings. Order online through the SCICN product store, or call the office to place your order.

Our Children Are...What Our Children Eat is a one-of-a-kind, hands-on manual for parents, teachers, and anyone interested in how to improve the health, behavior, and school performance of children with natural foods and whole food supplements.

Special features in this manual are:

  • The best proteins, carbohydrates, and fats for all children
  • Foods and ingredients to avoid for children with allergies
  • Nutrients that enhance brain function
  • Convenience foods that are wholesome, natural and widely-available
  • Nutritional solutions for ADD/ADHD
  • How digestion affects brain function
  • How physical conditions affect behavior and emotions
  • Products that enhance intestinal health (enzymes. probiotics)
  • Protocol chart including instructions for using digestive enzymes, probiotics, and blue green algae for children
  • Do's and Don'ts with vaccinations
  • Helpful tools for getting desired results with your nutrition program
You will find three main categories of scientific research:
  1. Major nutrient deficiencies that occur in children today
  2. Nutrients that play a role in brain function in children, including studies related to ADD/ADHD
  3. Studies about freshwater blue-green algae specifically relating to children's health, behavior and school performance
A 90-Day Game Plan offers nutritional solutions for families making a transition from a mainstream diet to a natural food diet, week by week. It is a step-by-step guide about how to identify toxic and allergic foods, buy and consume nutrient-rich foods, and insure optimal digestion, elimination, and overall health for your children as well as the rest of your family.

A review from Dr. John Taylor: Nutritional treatment of ADD is gaining increasing acceptance as more and more scientific studies continue to validate it. Like Dr John Taylor’s pace-setting and controversial “Helping Your ADD Child,” this one is also at least ten years ahead of its time, providing one of the most clear and intelligent portrayals of the effects of nutrition on behavior of children in general and of children with ADD in particular, complete with numerous scientific references.

Of course it advocates the same scientifically valid nutritional approach portrayed in “Helping Your ADD Child,” including the usefulness of specific nutrients and avoidance of certain toxic chemicals. It presents essentially the same approach Dr. Taylor advocates, in profound and insightful detail. Topics include how micro- and macro-nutrients affect brain and behavior, the digestive system’s involvement with ADD, foods to feed and those to avoid feeding to the child, toxinsulation and detox treatment approaches, enhancing digestive processes, using “therapeutic” foods, the importance of pure water, coordinating dietary intervention at school, and a 90-day diet plan for ADD.

 
Introduction - Read the introduction online 1
Part one: Basics 3
  Our Children’s Bodies - Read this chapter online 4
  General Studies About Children 10
  Studies: Nutrient Deficiencies 13
Part Two: Where to Start 16
  Where to Start – What to Avoid 17
  Studies About Food Additives and Allergies 21
  Simple Substitutions 25
Sugar and Fat Substitutions 27
  Protein Foods and Snacks 28
  Better Carbs: Grains 29
  Fats 31
  Major Substitutions: Wheat, Dairy, Sugar, Snacks 36
Part Three: Meals 46
  Problems and Solutions: Eating on School Days 47
  What Do I Do If My Child Won’t Eat? Read excerpt here 50
  Quick Breakfast Ideas 51
  Universal Food Program 54
  Do Not Consume 60
  Feingold Program 61
  Breakfast Options 62
  Lunch Options 64
  Suggestions About Family Dinners 67
Part Four: The Problems 73
  Too Quick to Jump to Drugs 74
  Understanding Why - Read an excerpt online 77
  Headaches and Allergies 80
  Toxic Metals 87
  Dentistry and the Use of Mercury 89
  Vaccinations 93
Part Five: Digestion 95
  Tips About Digestion 96
  Products That Support Digestion 98
  Gut-Brain Highway: A 2-Way Street 101
  High Fiber Foods 102
  The Importance of Water 103
Part Six: Superfoods and Supplements 105
  Superfoods for Children 106
  Freshwater Blue Green Algae 107
  Studies About Blue Green Algae 109
  Zinc 111
  Brain Nutrients 112
  Phospholipids 114
  Co-Q-10 115
  Ideas for Feeding Supplements to Children 116
  Commonly Reported Results from Kids on
Nutritional Programs		 118
  If You Don’t Get Desired Results… 119
  Sports Nutrition for Kids and Teens 121
Part Seven: Create Your Program 125
  How Much Does It Cost to Buy Natural Foods
And Supplements?		 126
  Health Questionnaire 128
  Recommendations 131
Part Eight: 90-Day Game Plan 132
  Outline of A 90-Day Game Plan!!! 133
  Weeks 1-12 134
  90 Day Supplement Protocol  
  Learn to Ask Different Questions 141
Part Nine: Who Can Help? 142
  How Teachers Can Help 143
  How Parents Can Help 144
  How School Officials Can Be Supportive 147
  Important Resource List 148
References 150



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