Raising Smarter Children By Feeding Them Smarter Food
August 6th, 2009 by Pat Wyman
Did you know that too much sugar turns to fat in your body?
Did you know that if you learn to read food labels like a pro, you’ll find all sorts of unhealthy chemicals, hidden sugars and trans-fats which can dull your child’s brain?
If you think sugar and simple carbohydrates are somehow different once you eat them, consider this: Read the number of carbohydrates on the label, divide by 5 and you’ll know how may teaspoons of sugar you’re eating.
Recently, I was muching on some organic corn chips, and didn’t think about the amout of sugar I was eating. All of the sudden, I looked at the carbohydrates on the label (35 grams) – divided that by 5 and was shocked to realize I was eating the equivalent of 7 teaspoons of sugar! Yuck! My run this morning won’t bring down that quick blood sugar rise.
If you like the idea of raising smarter children, for sure you’ll want to learn to read the food labels like a pro and know which fats are good, which are bad, and everything in between.
For example, did you know that companies can claim no trans fats in their products, yet still have one portion in there, as long as it’s less than 500 milligrams of transfat? The New England Journal of Medicine found that trans fat is more dangerous to health than anything else – period! There is no safe level of trans fat, hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated fat, palm oil, corn oil or soybean oil, which always contain some levels of trans fats.
I found a blog I like and Dr. Russell Martino has some great free reports on health, weight loss (in this time of obesity and type 2 diabetes epidemic), as well as another on how to read the food labels, all of which will help you be one up on the food industry which really doesn’t have your child’s best interest at heart.
Check out his blog today – it’s one way to raise a smarter, healthier child.
Warmly,
Pat Wyman
Founder, How To Learn and author of Instant Learning For Amazing Grades
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