My sister-in-law with a friend, and no she wasn’t giving him the Coke. :-)
(Note: I do not necessarily agree with every conclusion or idea that these people put forth, but the overall message is sound and we have found it to be true on a number of levels for adults, let alone children.)
Nourishing Our Children – Timeless Principles for Supporting Learning, Behavior, and Health Through Optimal Nutrition – This page has a wealth of information that is essential for the modern parent to know. There are so many lies being put forth about food and what we should eat, and yet children are looking malnourished – their eyes may be more or less sunken looking, they may be super thin or obese, their skin may be pasty looking or they look anemic, they may lack a look of vivacious health even when they are active, their hair may be limp and lusterless, they may have learning disabilities or thinking and emotional problems related to lack of proper nutrition – or, even worse, from the introduction of dangerous additives in their food.
The parents are not always at fault. They think they are feeding their kids a “pretty good diet”, not knowing that the food they think is “good for them” is so processed and stripped of nutrition that, although their bellies are full and they are sometimes even fat, they are not healthy. Only if it gets to the point of serious brain malfunction or physical problems do they realize that there is a problem. It is time to Wake Up, as this page says. There is much information here, but when you stop and think about what they are saying much of it only makes sense; after all, this is the way people did eat in the past before “super-processing” of food came into common practice.
Be sure and read this page at their site for the basics on good-for-kids-and-you foods that are lied about by the present food cartels: Top 10 Facts You May Not Know About Your Diet –
A few to get you interested:
3. Saturated fats and cholesterol are vital for optimum health… (Yes, it’s true!)
6. Modern soy products are dangerous…
4. Foods from grass-fed animals are important for good health…
9. Not all “organic” foods are healthy…
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By the way, if you can’t imagine how food can make that much difference in a kid’s behavior I’d like to tell you about a cat.
Some friends of ours had a cat that had a nasty temperament - was ornery and mean and probably “violent”. The wife/owner read about the proper way to feed dogs and cats on raw meats and vegetables rather than the highly processed food product sold as cat food, and decided to try it. That cat calmed right down and became a pleasant and respectable member of their pet population. How much more important do you supposed a proper diet is to the development of a human baby and child?
Proper nutrition is really of vital importance for anything to be healthy, and as with animals, small kids and babies cannot always tell you that they don’t feel right. If proper eating could help the behavior issues of a cat don’t you suppose that it might make a difference in some children as well? This is not to say that they will stop being sinners. They won’t. But, there may be things in their diet that are irritating their bodies and brains in ways that God didn’t intend and thus causing emotional disorder that leads to behavioral problems. It is something to think about.
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CONCLUSION
These things are very thought-provoking, and in light of the present world situation I think it is of interest that there is a grass roots (no pun intended) movement toward growing more of our own food needs; buying local, grass-fed, raw and otherwise more healthy food products; and learning to enjoy less more. World situations make it seem that the Lord’s return is imminent and this turning toward older more simple ways makes me wonder if there is not a desire rising up in some people for the very thing that God Himself will shortly bring to pass. I certainly know that the Kingdom is a time when agriculture will be emphasized and personal ownership of food sources will be the norm. And, that food will be wholesome and pure as God intended it to be! No more GMO, praise God!
Micah 4:2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem. 3 And he shall judge among many people, and rebuke strong nations afar off; and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up a sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more. 4 But they shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.
If that doesn’t make you want to shout for joy after what you read and heard in these two posts on food, you might want to check your pulse and see if you’re still alive. :-) (Unless you are not a Christian born into God’s family through Jesus Christ. Then you need to go here and do some reading: The Gospel of Jesus Christ.)
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