Health Tips for going back to School

As parents we look for ways to help their children live a healthy and happy life, it’s difficult sometimes in this toxic world we live in.

There is a highly-respected magazine for kids, once ad-free, now packed with ads for fast food, candy, sugary cereals, snack cakes, and other unhealthy products.

At a time when a nutrition-related health crisis plagues our nation, and especially our youth, it is unconscionable that this magazine has chosen to cram its pages with ads for meals such as fried chicken fingers with french fries, which provides 590 calories and more than half-a-day’s worth of fat and sodium.

Junk food ads are clearly a major source of revenue for this magazine and others, in spite of some of the following facts which are NOT getting enough attention:

• Feeding children hot dogs increases their risk of brain cancer by 300%.
• Strawberry yogurt, fruit punch and other red-looking grocery products are often colored with dead, ground-up cochineal beetles. The ingredient, called “carmine,” is made from insects, and is listed on the label of many favorite foods.
• Many Florida oranges are actually dipped in an artificial orange dye in order to make them visually appealing; the same dye that’s been banned for use in foods because of cancer risk.
• Girl Scout cookies are still made with hydrogenated oils that contain trans fatty acids, which are common in foods kids eat, including fried foods like French fries, and in many baked goods (cookies, pastries, crackers, chips, etc.).
• Eating just one serving of processed meat each day increases your risk of pancreatic cancer by 67%. Get organic beef.

Don’t let your kids eat the contaminated food from the school cafeteria!

Set a good example and pack their lunches with the nutrients they need to grow into healthy young adults!

Thanks to Kevin Trudeau for the above article!