Self sufficiency in the kitchen can be a natural remedy.....

[freemotion]

I'm reading Motivational Interviewing in Health Care by Drs. Rollnick, Miller, and Butler. After pointing out that modern advancements in medicine have led to curing many acute diseases and traumatic injuries, today's youth are the first in modern history to be less healthy than their parents.....

Respiratory diseases and cancers, diabetes and obesity, heart and liver disease, and some psychological problems, such as depression, are all strongly linked to health behavior and lifestyle. A majority of the maladies that now cause people to consult health care professionals (e.g., physicians, dentists, nurses, chiropractors) are largely preventable or remediable through health behavior change.

Just what many of us are striving to do! Go, us!

 

[Henrietta23]

It's how I'm trying to approach helping DS do better in school. He's is capable but struggles to maintain focus. Eating healthier has helped but I think there is more we should be doing for him. I feel so overwhelmed by it right now and it doesn't help to be fighting an education system that believes there's a pill to fix everything. :/

 

[yourbadd]

I homeschool my 8yr old son and he has trouble focusing too. I know if he went to a public school they would be demanding a psych. eval. and prescribing meds for ADHD. I've been playing with his diet and notice a better attention span after high protein meals and snacks. If he eats processed, sugary cereals he's worthless all morning. I have slowly replaced a lot of the processed crap they love to eat with healthy, whole food choices and it's working wonders on him!!

It also helps that when he totally can't focus I have him either run laps around the house or do jumping jacks!!!

 

[freemotion]

Well, we can't achieve perfection but we can maximize potential....you've made a LOT of progress in the past year or two, H23, don't forget!

And yay, yourbadd, if the public school systems gave the kids more exercise there'd likely be a LOT less behavior problems....never mind the food they make available to the kids. Everyone with a puppy knows how critical a LOT of exercise is to one's sanity!

 

[ohiofarmgirl]

Everyone with a puppy knows how critical a LOT of exercise is to one's sanity! tongue

hey! like ME!?!?!?

http://adventuresinthegoodland.blogspot.com/2011/10/zander-hannibal-bonecrusher.html

ha ha ha ha ha!!! good food, good exercise.... yep. anyone with a puppy knows that!

at one of the local schools a "healthy snack" for kindergarteners is chocolate milk and a bag of something from the "Itos" food group. no wonder the kids are either bonkers or sick. sheesh!

;-)

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

Trouble focusing? I wrote the book on that
If only we had known I could not have gluten before I started school, I would have thrived, rather then struggled.

 

[Wifezilla]

oh heck yeah. same here.

 

[abifae]

Not me. I have great fo-

LOOK A SQUIRREL!!!!

 

[Neko-chan]

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