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The science is crystal clear.  Children who eat a healthy breakfast before school are healthier, more alert, have more energy, exhibit better behavior and get better grades. A recent State of Minnesota Breakfast Study found that students who ate breakfast before starting school had a general increase in math grades and reading scores, increased student attention, reduced nurse visits, and improved student behaviors.  (December, 1997)

Researchers at Harvard Medical/Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston found that hungry children are more likely to have behavioral and academic problems than children who get enough to eat.  At school, hungry children had more problems with irritability, anxiety and aggression, as well as more absences and tardiness.(Pediatrics, January, 1998; Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, February, 1998)

The recent Tufts University Statement (1998) on The Link Between Nutrition and Cognitive Development in Children cites new findings: "Recent research provides compelling evidence that under-nutrition impacts the behavior of children, their school performance, and their overall cognitive development".

The importance of a healthy breakfast is paramount to your child’s health, behavior, and academic performance.  As the new school year begins, we encourage you take a stand for your children and make a healthy breakfast, everyday, the rule in your home.

If you’re on go and don’t have much time, please consider these quick, easy and very nutritious ways that The Wholefood Farmacy foods can help.

Our fruit based Farinas (BeautiPhi, ClariPhi, ElectriPhi, FructiPhi & GloriPhi) can provide a wonderful way to add taste, variety and nutrition to oat meal, cream of wheat, and whole grain breakfast cereals.  Simply sprinkle them over these healthy breakfast foods and you’re done!  Phi Plus, TropiPhi and Fruitalicious also make a wonderful and very delicious addition to these healthy breakfast foods and they provide a wonderfully sweet alternative to processed sugar.

Breakfast Smoothies are also a quick and easy way to start your child’s day with healthy whole food nutrition.  Start with some fresh fruit and your choice of milk, then add any of our fruit based Farinas – hit the button on your blender and in 15 seconds it’s ready to go. 

Make Phi Plus cookies the night before. Form Phi Plus into the shape of cookies then drizzle with Wholefood Farmacy Organic Coconut Oil and refrigerate.  In the morning, you’ll have some very healthy and very tasty treats ready when you’re on the go.

Try it for a few weeks and the results will speak for themselves.  Set the alarm clock a few minutes earlier and give your kids the daily advantage of a Healthy Start “ it makes all the difference in the world.”

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Artificial Diet Disorder?

The possibility that artificial food colorings and chemical preservatives could affect your child’s behavior has been a hotly contested issue for decades.  Research reported in the September 2007 issue of the Lancet Medical Journal now provides a clear demonstration that changes in behavior can be detected in three-year-old and eight-year-old children who ingest these artificial processed food additives.

Psychology Professor James Stevenson of the University of Southampton and colleagues conducted tests on more than 300 children. They found significant differences in the children’s behavior when they drank fruit drinks with a mixture of common processed food additives including artificial food colorings and chemical preservatives.

“These findings show that adverse effects are not just seen in children with extreme hyperactivity (such as ADHD) but can also be seen in the general population and across the range of severities of hyperactivity,” the researchers wrote in their study. The team of researchers commented that “the implications of these results for the regulation of food additive use could be substantial.”

Many parents today feel pressured by doctors and school officials into treating their children’s symptoms with narcotic medications.  After witnessing the side effects, many wish they had not. 

On the other hand, we have wonderful non-profit groups like The Feingold Association (www.feingold.org) that has a 30 year track record and a 90% success rate in alleviating such symptoms by simply changing the child’s diet.

If you are a parent who is concerned about your child’s behavior, please visit The Feingold Association’s web site for more information. We also encourage you to offer your children Wholefood Farmacy foods which contain NO artificial colorings, NO artificial flavorings, NO artificial sweeteners and NO chemical preservatives 

Maybe ADD should really stand for Artificial Diet Disorder – we encourage parents everywhere to give nature a chance.

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Are You at Risk

When it comes to safeguarding your health – sometimes, the most important information of all has to come from you.

The Harvard School of Public Health has added a wonderful health tool to their website.  This easy interactive tool allows you to determine your risk level with respect to cancer, heart disease, diabetes, osteoporosis and stroke. 

Within a matter of minutes you can know exactly where you stand.  You can rest easy if your risk is low and you’ll know what to do if your risk is elevated.  Many of the questions have to do with your diet – they will ask how many servings of fruits, veggies, and whole grains that you eat per day – so here’s something to keep in mind.

Wholefood Farmacy foods are very dense in nutrition – one serving of our vegetable based foods (Veggielicious, Veggielicious Spice, AmpliPhi, Tomato Soup, Bean Soup, Yam Soup, and Vegetable Soup) count as a serving of vegetables.  One serving of Farmacy Pro Power counts as 8 servings of vegetables.

 One serving of our fruit based foods (Fruitalicous, Fruitalicious Plus, Phi Plus, Coco Cherry Phi, Cranberry Phi, TropiPhi, BeautiPhi, ClariPhi, ElectriPhi, FructiPhi, and GloriPhi) count as a serving of fruits.  Our corn snacks (Cornucopia, Cornaborealis, and Corn of Plenty) or DetoxiPhi count as a serving of whole grains. 

As you are using this tool it is important to be honest with yourself – it’s completely private and confidential.  If you are at low risk, then you deserve to know and to have that wonderful, healthful feeling of comfort.  If you are at an elevated risk, then you’ll be offered some good ideas and practical tips on how to lower your risk with healthy lifestyle changes. 

Here’s the link to the Harvard website:  waww.yourdiseaserisk.harvard.edu

Eat Your Oats!

Oats are a nutritious whole grain that can help to prevent heart disease and diabetes.  Oats contain a special type of fiber that is called beta-glucan.  Studies dating back over 40 years have consistently shown the beneficial effects of beta-glucan on cholesterol levels.  In individuals with cholesterol above 220, consuming only 3 grams of soluble oat fiber per day (an amount found in one bowl of oatmeal) typically lowers total cholesterol by 8-23%.  Each 1% drop in cholesterol equates to a 2% decrease in the risk of developing heart disease. Now that’s an easy way to take care of your heart.

Studies also show that beta-glucan has beneficial effects in diabetes as well. Type 2 diabetics who ate foods high in this type of oat fiber such as oatmeal or oat bran experienced much lower rises in blood sugar compared to those who were ate processed foods. Starting out your day with oats may make it easier to keep blood sugar levels under control the rest of the day, especially when the rest of your day is also includes other whole foods that are rich in fiber.

More recently, researchers from the Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, Tufts University, Boston, report that oats may have another heart protective quality.  Their findings were reported in The Journal of Nutrition, June 2007, and indicate that oats contain unique antioxidant compounds called avenanthramides. These special antioxidant compounds help prevent free radicals from damaging LDL cholesterol thereby reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease. 

In another study also conducted at Tufts and published in the journal Atherosclerosis, researchers exposed human arterial wall cells to purified avenenthramides from oats for 24 hours, and found that these oat phenols significantly suppressed the production of several types of molecules which cause arteries to become clogged.

Here’s a healthy idea – start your day with a nice warm bowl of oatmeal and then add some Phi Plus, Cranberry Phi or Coco Cherry Phi  – mix it in and let stand for a couple of minutes.  You’ll be adding even more oats, more nutrition and more flavor too!  Phi Plus, Cranberry Phi and Coco-Cherry Phi are all very rich in oats – so these delicious whole foods also offer you a convenient way to snack on oats throughout the day!

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