Paleo: The ancestral solution to modern dietary problems

As parents you are constantly assessing your child health and well being always striving to provide them with the best. The best education, the best experiences but are your helping them learn the best eating habits? We recognize the real world concerns of the tight schedules, social circumstances and ingrained bad habits but these powerful influences can sabotage your childs understanding of a healthy diet. If you were to ask any child today to list some healthy foods I am confident that they could spout off the USDA’s food pyramid without hesitation but does this only demonstrate the irony in the daily life. The forces of a hectic daily life will always divert you from a optimal health and that it is why it is so important that you instill the power in your child to overcome these pressures and make the right food choices.

            Your childs palate developes over time just like motor skills and cognitive abilties. The norrow eating habits they are displaying now have a 99% chance of subsiding, the key is patience. There is no fool-proof method but a picky eater will never venture out of the norm unless you are adventurous and bring them out side of their narrow eating habits. Food neophobia is an evolutionary adaptation to protect individuals from consuming potentially harmful foods. This inhert reaction to new food can not deter you from offering healthy options. As the parent if you demonstrate openmindeness in your famlies diet the end result is that you will ensure a broader palate for your child throughout adult hood and life.

            The palate of your child will naturally be drawn to the same negative impact food groups that we as adults battle. The question you must ask your self when faced with a food choice is will it make me and my family healthier? With the goal of making good food choice it is imperitive that we make the transition from processed food with empty calories to nutrient dense foods that make us healthier. The food to eliminate are sugars and grains. Both of these food groups cause excessive insulin production and have an inferior nutritional value compared to natural carbohydrates. This results in fat storage and a host of other lifestyle dieses such as type 2 diabetes. To improve your familes health we emphaize quality protein sources, nuts and seeds, and colorful natural carbohydrates. If your family eats from these plentifuly food  options we guartee that you will have better control of your weight,  miniize the risk of dieses and improve your general health. No one is perfect and one should ever refuse the lifestyle change in fear of failing but the fact is that any poor choice is at the expense of your health and you should strive for 100% compliance.