Microorganisms live in our bodies everywhere from our skin to the respiratory system. Most of them can be found in our digestive system. Different types of microorganisms affect to organ system in different ways. Some are pathogenic microorganism protectors. Some are food digestors or support the metabolic system and excretory system. Some support the immune system. Eating a variety of vegetables and fruits helps to form a variety of microorganisms.
All microorganisms in our bodies are called “Microbiota”. The term “Microbiome” in humans is often used to describe the microorganisms that live in or on a particular part of the body.
Our bodies form microorganisms from the day fetuses live inside amniotic fluid to the day fetuses deliver by spontaneous vaginal delivery. They support the metabolic system. For babies by c-section delivery, microorganisms form on their skin.
White blood cells also move microorganisms and keep them inside the mother’s milk. Babies get lactobacillus from breastfeeding. Mother’s milk also has prebiotics (microorganism food) named “Oligosaccharides” that give complete immunity to babies.
Mothers should eat a variety of vegetables and fruits to form many types of microorganisms inside the intestine and pass them to babies. They support the immunity system and help to keep babies strong for the rest of their lives.
Our stomach creates a Natural Satiety mechanism after foods fill up our stomach. Even a small amount of food can make us feel full if they are sweet. Insulin will be released after we take a lot of sweets to their brain that “Their bodies had enough food and stop eating”. Especially, sweet and oily foods will send the signal to their brain to “stop eating” because their bodies don’t want high cholesterol. Leptin is a hormone that comes from fat cells. It sends a signal to our brain to “stop eating”. This mechanism affects children who take a lot of sweets. As a result, children refuse to eat main foods. Sweets are dangerous because they form a learning mechanism when children eat sweets. The opioid receptors in their brains start working. Children will like eating sweets. The more they eat. the more they like eating them – the more they eat them, they like them even more. Thus, it’s hard to wean sweets addictive from children. Sweets addictive mechanism is more dangerous than the satiety mechanism. Children will eat foods more than they need when they grow up even if they are not hungry or feeling full.
The only safe sweet taste comes from fruits and its fiber helps to detox. Fruit juice is not good for our health.
White sugar and corn syrup have glucose and fructose. Fructose is not useful for our bodies. It directly goes to our liver and changes its form to fat. It causes fatty liver, hepatitis diseases, insulin resistance and diabetes.
All kinds of sweets also kill good microbiomes inside our guts. It imbalances our bodies. All kinds of sweets also kill good microbiomes inside our guts. As a result, our bodies become imbalanced and immunodeficiency.
Energy is needed for children under three years old. Parents should not add sugar to their foods or let them eat sweets. The best energy sources are natural fat, beans, sesame, and nuts as they are unsaturated fat.
Flour is also a good energy source as it is wholegrain.
We encourage you to cultivate your children to learn and accept the natural taste of foods. Foods at an early age create immunity for the rest of their lives.
A heady mix of sweet and sour, your baby will happily gobble up this flavorful smoothie! The delicious richness of bananas combined with the citrusy goodness of strawberries will make a healthy and satisfying snack for your baby!
Bananas are dense in dietary fiber, and lend a characteristically sweet taste to the smoothie. They contain A, B and C vitamins as well as important minerals like magnesium and potassium. Strawberries are tangy and nutrient-rich. They are a powerhouse of antioxidants, folic acid and vitamin C.
Strawberries and bananas make a lovely combination for taste and health!
You have done your research on PLANT-BASED WHOLE FOODS, explained your lifestyle change to family and friends, and made a plan of action for the child’s conflicting life situations. But your child won’t eat the veggies.
If this story is familiar to you, you have a picky eater on your hands.
You need to resolve picky eating even if your child is not ‘ill’, because a poor diet will limit the child’s full health and academic potential. Besides, picky eating makes children tired, irritable, and may reflect an internal medical issue.
The first thing to remember is to take control of your child’s diet – don’t leave the composition of their plate to them!
An expert is someone who has:
All in all, with good planning, compassionate love, and PLANT-BASED WHOLE FOODS, you can do anything!
This puree contains the goodness of greens! Pears, kiwis, spinach and peas all combine in this healthful and delicious puree to give your baby the best of nutrition. Wholesome, filling and a bright green color, your baby will keep reaching out for more!
Pears are rich in antioxidants, phytonutrients and vitamin C. Peas are a good source of C, K and B vitamins and some essential minerals. Spinach is famous for being nutrient-rich and high in vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, while kiwis are known for being packed with vitamin E.
This green smoothie is full of nourishing goodness!
Without knowing it, you have been feeding your children dangerous foods.
The foods that are good for humans are those that nature designed for us to eat. The foods that nature didn’t intend for us to eat qualify as bad for health. When we deviate from nature’s intended diet, it backfires in the form of disease.
So, what has nature designed for us? Foods that can be eaten closest to their natural state: fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts and seeds are the best foods for us. Eggs, fish, meat and dairy contain cancer-causing chemicals (carcinogens), toxic heavy metals like mercury and cadmium, artificial hormones, antibiotics, and industrial toxins. Even if you buy organic, free-range animal products, you have still been feeding your baby the oxidants, saturated fats, cholesterol and estrogenic meat carcinogens found in all animal products. These are factors responsible for the mucus that causes ear infections, allergies and colds, and leads to chronic diseases later in life. Not only are these foods nutritionally inappropriate, the industry way of producing them are adding more antibiotics, hormones and chemicals to them. It’s no wonder then, that a world raised on this diet is battling so many diseases.
Refined extracts like sugar and oil are equal culprits. They contain zero nutrition but all the added calories, and are responsible for children becoming obese. Childhood obesity is a serious epidemic, one that will cause children to develop chronic diseases as they grow older. Not only that, sugar and highly processed foods also make your child more prone to falling sick by weakening the body’s defenses. That means you need to keep away all sugary drinks and colas. Excess salt can also lead to high blood pressure and incidences of stomach cancer.
We see it all around us, don’t we? The animal products, the sugar, the salt, the oil, and the diseases. It’s a clear correlation.
So what should you eat if you eliminate meat, fish, eggs, milk, sugar, excess salt and oil? See Experts and Scientific Evidence to find out which is the right food choice for your baby.
But if you are worried that your child is nutritionally missing out on animal products, read on:
Plants synthesize all essential amino acids, which are the building blocks of protein. 100 grams of broccoli contain more protein than 100 grams of beef. Dark leafy greens, beans, seeds and grains contain adequate protein. A well-balanced, plant-based diet fulfils all protein requirements.
Calcium is not produced in the body of animals, and in that sense, meat, poultry and eggs essentially contain no calcium. Plants absorb calcium through the soil, and dark leafy greens, beans, bananas and seeds all contain adequate calcium.
The protein in cow’s milk prevents the body from absorbing iron. Breastfed babies show excellent iron absorption from food. Tomatoes, greens, cereals and seeds contain sufficient iron. The iron in animals (heme iron) is known to product free radicals in the body, which may lead to strokes.
Vitamin D is a hormone, which is produced in the body in the presence of sunlight through activation by light (photochemistry). With adequate exposure to sunlight, adequate Vitamin D is produced in the body. Therefore, there is no need for Vitamin D to be ingested.
Bacteria in the soil produce B12. If the child eats organic plants which have not been factory-cleaned, the bacteria of the soil will still be on the plant and will produce enough B12 in the gastrointestinal tract. However, doctors recommend a supplement for those who buy produce from stores.
McDougall claims that only plants can synthesize Omega 3 and Omega 6 fatty acids. Fish convert these into fats like EPA and DHA, but humans too convert these into other fat building blocks to be utilized by the body. Just like fish make these fatty acids on their own, humans do too. We do not need to eat fish for the same. However, eating fish brings with it methionine (a cancer-causing agent), high cholesterol and a host of industrial pollutants.
Starches such as cereals and potatoes provide sufficient energy for growth. Nuts, avocados, seeds and dried fruit can add additional calories for growth. Not only do these foods ensure proper development, they also keep your child’s tummy full.
Aside from not providing a healthy source of nutrition, animal products also bring with them high cholesterol, high oxidants, high saturated fat and zero dietary fiber! A PLANT-BASED WHOLE FOODS diet takes care of all nutritional needs of your child!
Your baby is the most precious gift life could have given you, and now you need to give your baby a precious gift: the gift of good health.
Childhood diets create adult diseases, and you don’t want to be the reason for your baby being sick.
Foods habits start young.
Think children are naturally inclined to foods loaded with salt and sugar? Think again.
Experts say that children who are raised on a low-salt diet do not crave salt when they grow up. Alternatively, those raised on a high-salt diet, continue that trend throughout their life.
Bad habits of excess salt and sugar develop if children are allowed to eat those foods! It’s that simple.
Don’t keep anything in the house that you don’t want them to get their hands on. Children quickly learn that they can refuse dinner with a tantrum till their desired food is given.
Children should only be given PLANT-BASED WHOLE FOODS that are minimally processed (whole foods) – such foods provide all the nutrition that a child needs to thrive. These include a balanced mix of fruits, vegetables, grains, nuts and seeds during the day.
Doctors claim that the healthiest diet is a PLANT-BASED WHOLE FOODS one. To help your baby adapt to this lifestyle to grow up healthy and happy, this is what you need to do:
Your children’s lifelong relationship with food is impacted by what you feed them Be mindful of the fact that food is not just meant to satisfy hunger, it is the most important source of nutrition. Here are fun ways to help your children relate to healthy food:
Establish a meal routine so that children can bring discipline into their eating habits.
Whole PLANT FOOD should make up the bulk of your meals. However, for moms on the go, packaged food can be a savior. Read the labels well on packaged foods to ensure that they are consistent with the plant-based whole foods lifestyle.
Ingredients:
The ingredients are listed in descending order of weight, so read through the whole list to ensure they are PLANT-BASED WHOLE FOODS, especially taking care to check that no dairy products or pesticides are in the food. Many manufacturers indulge in label manipulation, a practice called ‘ingredient splitting’, wherein they use more than one kind of substance as a sweetener. This breaks them into smaller components, allowing the healthier ingredients to be listed on top. Specific ingredients to watch out for:
Serving Size:
Manufacturers deliberately list very small serving sizes so the quantity of ingredients they must list reduces, giving the overall impression that some ‘bad’ substances are present in negligible quantities. Read the serving sizes carefully.
Cooking Techniques:
Having whole foods means ensuring that they are minimally processed. Dried or dehydrated, ground, powdered, or sprouted are safe process labels. Do not believe the term ‘made from whole grains’ unless it is certified ‘100% whole grains’.
Traps:
When a label says ‘fat-free’ it could have excess sugar to make up for not having fat. Some so-called ‘dairy-free’ foods may still contain dairy derivatives, listed using unrecognizable names such as: rennin, rennet, lactic acid, lactose, sodium caseinate, caseinate, albumen, whey protein, whey, and casein.
Other Terms
Look for the PLANT-BASED WHOLE FOODS symbol which stands for Plant-Based Whole Food. If you see a product with this symbol, you can rest assured that it is the best for your baby!
In a discussion about your child’s nutritional needs, how can your nutrition be left behind?
Pregnancy is the best time for you to reassess your lifestyle, and choose the nutritional foundation for your baby. So, what is the best lifestyle? Doctors recommend a plant-based whole foods diet for better health, especially to pregnant women.
The first thing you need to do is stop drinking cow’s milk! Doctors say it can cause your little one colic pains.
Research also shows that mothers who ate lots of vegetables during their pregnancy imparted, through their breast milk, the greatest capacity for adult brainpower to their children.
Eat minimally processed, PLANT-BASED WHOLE FOODS for your health and that of your child! The first seven weeks of pregnancy are the most important time for fetal development, when most women do not realize they are pregnant. Switch to this lifestyle yourself, and sustain it through pregnancy, breastfeeding and beyond, to create a healthy environment for your child.
