Prior to having kids I thought my health was generally ok, with the exception of effects of eating wheat which I discovered 6 years ago. So with that avoided & the arrival of kids I was all set or so I thought, but boy do they take it out of you! My energy levels often flagged but since going fructose free I'm on an even keel. As I approach the big 40 I want to be as healthy as I can to keep up with them & give them the best I can. Somewhere along the way in my food investigations (& behavioural strategies) I came across Fed Up & it triggered that there maybe some answers in there to help my little one & potentially me along the way. I'm devouring the book right now, so will get back to some bigger blogs & recipe trials later. The opening chapters are hitting home & I've made contact with recommended dieticians in hopes I'm barking up the right tree regards potential food intolerances. To me it makes sense, the additives & chemicals in our post 1960's world must be having effects on all of us. I feel there will be some correlation between the Failsafe Eliminations & Toxic Oil/Sweet Poison avoidances. I hope so else this will be one hell of a change in eating habits!!
This will be hard, I have no illusions, however as I'm never one to resort to medicine before determining cause & prefer healthy alternatives where possible, I'd rather extremely change our food first. In my recent discoveries I'm looking at food now as fuel whilst still trying to have fun with & enjoy it. If its fuel then we want the right fuel in our tank to get optimum performance from it. I liken wrong fuel to putting Petrol into a Diesel Engine where it causes internal damage & sluggish performance.
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PS. In case you are wondering I have 6 months to determine what ingredients will be in my birthday cake!
Fed Up: Understanding How Food Affects Your Child and What You Can Do About it
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