1. Avoid Soda… sugar sweetened or artificially sweetened, it doesn’t matter. This is NOT a beverage that kids should be drinking. Water should be their principle beverage outside of milk.
2. Avoid Sugar sweetened cereals. If you are using these, start to change things by adding multi grain cheerios into that box so they’re getting a little bit and then keep on adding it until you have all multigrain cheerios. Start to add a more protein centered breakfast such as eggs, yogurt or protein shakes.

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A healthy diet is just as important for children as it is for adults. When a child doesn’t eat enough healthy foods, his or her ability to learn may suffer. Imagine sitting in school all day when your brain and body is starving for good nutrition.

1. Make sure your child gets in the habit of eating a healthy breakfast rich in whole grains, fiber, and especially protein.  Research suggests that a good breakfast helps a child do better in school. A study, published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, showed that children who ate breakfast regularly had higher reading and math scores, lower levels of depression, anxiety, and hyperactivity, better school attendance, improved attention spans, and fewer behavior problems. A study published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research with researchers at George Washington University tested three breakfast types (high-carbohydrate, high-protein, and no breakfast at all) on 39 children with ADHD and 44 kids without the condition. For the hyperactive children, performance on several tests, including a test for attention, was significantly worse with the high-carbohydrate breakfast, as compared with the scores of the children who ate the high-protein breakfast. High-protein breakfast ideas might include natural peanut butter on whole grain bread, eggs (to save time, make hard-boiled eggs the night before) or a smoothie made with high quality soy or whey protein, yogurt and fruit.

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Our bodies are made up of basically six things: vitamins, minerals, protein, carbohydrate, water and fats. Since we are made and fueled by all six of these nutrients, the quality of our health depends on the quality of all six of these nutrients. These nutrients are essential to health and life. (more…)

Many people believe that all vitamins and dietary supplements are the same, so why not just buy the cheapest or the one that has the catchy advertising? How can all those different brands be that much different?

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