Let’s be honest. Almost everything our grocery stores package is filled with processed foods, including produce and dairy, pumped with growth hormones and doused with pesticides. This is a very unhealthy way of living and has a negative impact on our children.
It’s a fact that organic foods not only taste better and are more nutrient-dense, but eating organic foods lowers your chances of developing certain types of cancer and other diseases. Our children’s bodies are developing and it is not worth putting them at risk of getting sick. Buying organic food is more expensive, but the benefits outweigh the costs, and much of the cost can be saved if people consider growing organic fruits and vegetables in their gardens or in containers on their porches and patios.
You know it’s bad when your child comes up to you every day and asks, “What’s for dinner, McDonald’s or Taco Bell?” And then we wonder why our 100 pound daughter wears a size 36DD bra. Our children inherit the growth hormones injected into the chickens and cows whose eggs, milk, and meat fill grocery stores and restaurants.
What can you do about it?
Change your lifestyle! This can be very difficult if you are not used to buying organic foods and eating healthy in general. It must start with the parents. You are what you eat!
Start making changes to your family’s diet slowly but surely if you’re starting over. Here are simple things you can do to give your child a healthy start in life.
- Eliminate carbonated drinks and sugary juices and replace them with 100% organic fruit juice with no added sugar.
- Buy organic food whenever possible or grow your own.
- Limit meals away from home to once a month.
- Take healthy snacks with you on the road in a cooler, such as apple wedges, carrots, cheeses, and dips to give to your kids. Keep jars of organic baby food in the car.
- Buy organic milk. It lasts a couple more weeks and you can be sure that your child is not drinking the growth hormones that are injected into cows to make more milk!
- Keep your refrigerator stocked with fresh foods. This will force you to serve healthy food to your family and not frozen food.
By giving your baby a “fresh start,” he or she will grow up with healthy eating habits and traditions.
