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Living in a Toxic World - Children's Nutrition by Aruna Bakhru

I just read an article about a study that compared the health of Americans with those of Britons of the same age and ethnicity ie caucasian, of course the Americans won hands down in ill health.

The article wondered why with all the money that we spend on health care over here, we are more unhealthy. They were saying that maybe we spend less on preventive health care etc an orgnic foods essay in the making! 

As a physician that has practiced medicine on two continents and being married to one that actually practiced in England for 5 years I can vouch for the fact that we practice more preventive medicine here than anywhere in the world.

The problem lies somewhere else. As a country USA has more chemicals insidiously pervading in every aspect of our lives than any country in the world. No wonder with all the money in the health care system we are so unhealthy.

One of my patients, recently showed me a hamburger that she had bought from a fast food joint 6 years ago. It looked maybe a day old, thats how stuffed with preservatives it was! How can the body handle food like that.

Food is meant to be broken down into basic building blocks for the body to use. Anything that is not food is sent to the liver to handle or stored elsewhere or excreted by the kidneys and so on.

So, as a parent what are you to do? How do you protect your children given this environment?

Its not easy. You do need extra effort but you cannot afford not to!

Consider the fact that according to a study published in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine, household chemical and pesticide exposure doubled childhood leukemia risk!

The authors described the links as "significant" and said that preventive action should be taken to make sure that the risks to children were as small as possible.

A group of pesticides known as carbamates present in plant treatments, lice shampoos and insect sprays were most commonly linked to leukemia.

Did you know that essential oils that are obtained from natural plant sources can be used as insect killers and lice treatments! You don't need to subject your children to dangerous pesticides.

So, lets start with the lunch box. Many lunch boxes that you buy in stores contain lead.

There is no safe level of lead for children. You can buy lead free lunch boxes or use brown bags. Next, the plastic wrappers.

Some of them contain additives like bisphenol A and phthalates that are cancer causing.

Paper wrapping is safer like parchment paper, brown bags etc.

Next, read labels. You will find that baked goods that are imported from europe, by and large will have 3 or 4 ingredients. Flour, butter, sugar and eggs. Go check out some of the baked goods produced here. The ingredient list is so long that if I listed it, it would use up the remaining space for my article! Monoglycerides, diglycerides and long chemical names that most people cannot even pronounce!

Then we have the class of compounds known as excitotoxins, the most infamous of which is monosodiumdiglyceride or MSG. I am amazed at the number of products that contain it! Soups, chips, crackers, noodles, instant rice and the list goes on and on! How many chemicals can a child's small body handle!

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