Way to Maintain Healthy

Nutrition for pregnant women is a vital piece of staying healthy and low risk. Some of the most life-threatening pregnancy complications are linked to the lack of good eating habits or poor diet for the pregnant woman in question. Healthcare professionals are noticing more and more the effect of a high protein diet during pregnancy and a decrease in preeclampsia rates.

What is Preeclampsia?

Also known as Toximia, preeclampsia is a serious illness, which effects 3-8% of all expectant mothers. Preeclampsia causes blood vessels to constrict, which sends blood pressure soaring. The strain on heart, kidney and other organs can be significant. If left untreated, it develops into eclampsia, which can cause seizures, coma and even death of both mother and child.

Unfortunately, medical science has yet to discover a cause or cure other than the immediate birth of the baby. In severe or rapidly developing cases, this can mean the delivery of a baby that is several weeks premature.

Hope on the Horizon for Preeclampsia

New studies and nutrition for pregnant women trends have led many healthcare professionals to believe there is at least a link and possible treatment to be found by tweaking the recommended diet for pregnant women.

Dr. Brewer, known for his 12-egg “cure”, had a successful obstetrics practice with a virtually 0% toxemia rate. This successful banishment of preeclampsia for his clients was derived from a high protein diet pregnancy. Brewer observed a significant decrease in toxemia rates with the daily consumption of 75 g of protein, the disease virtually disappeared with higher levels of protein consumption (90-100 g per day).

Current protein recommendations from the American Academy of Obstetrics concerning diet for pregnant woman advise only 50-60 g of protein daily. Brewer’s findings have largely been dismissed due to the lack of a gold standard randomized clinical test in place to support the link between nutrition for pregnant women and preeclampsia. On the flipside, no study has been conducted to refute Dr. Brewer’s findings. Read the rest of this entry »

As parents we want our kids to be as healthy as possible for many reasons. We want to avoid illness on a day to day basis and we want to prevent more serious long term illness and disease.

Children at an increasing and alarming rate are developing long term preventable illness and disease. Like type 2 diabetes, asthma, dental problems and other imbalances.
These nutrition related issues are a result of nutrition for kids or rather the lack of nutrition for kids.

Obesity is now a serious issue for many kids. Fast foods, junk food, sodas, foods with high fructose corn syrup, a lack of fresh fruits and vegetables are all contributing to an epidemic of illness for kids.

In a lot of homes the parents and other adults are also eating a very low nutrition unhealthy diet and modeling this to their kids.
In some cases adults are not modeling an unhealthy diet but are not monitoring their kids diets. They are going with the path of least resistance and letting their kids eat whatever they want to avoid confrontation.

Kids are the losers. Kids are not mature or educated enough to know what the short and long term consequences are from poor food choices. They just want to eat what tastes good to them. This is usually because the food tastes sweet, salty or fried. For kids its a lack of knowledge and maturity. For the adults its more of a lack of consciousness about nutrition and diet and they often have the same desire to choose foods solely for their taste without thought to the foods nutritional value and health consequences.

Most parents do want their kids to be healthy now, as they get older and through out their lives. The best way to help your kids is to start at as early an age as possible to adopt taste habits for healthy foods, especially fresh fruits and vegetables. Help them to understand the consequences of unhealthy food choices at a young age. Talk to them honestly and model the good habits for them.

If kids are told over and over about the facts concerning nutrition, healthy foods and the consequences of a bad diet, it will soak in and they will make better food choices on their own.

Our modern day food culture and food quality has been seriously compromised by the over processing and manufacturing of food, mainly for shelf life and profit. Kids are some of the most innocent victims of the manipulation of the quality of our foods solely for profit. Read the rest of this entry »