What children don't eat can cause illness

"Childhood diets create adult cancers.  When our children eat junk food instead of fruits and vegetables, the groundwork is being laid for cancer and other diseases to occur down the road.

"Additionally, many children today are very often recurrently sick with ear infections and allergies,  and then, later in life, may develop autoimmune illnesses such as lupus, ulcerative colitis, and rheumatoid arthritis.  The major contributor to the development of these illness is suboptimal nutrition.  Kids become ill not because they just naturally pass around germs or have bad genes, but because their diets are inadequate.  Medications cannot prevent these problems--only a diet of nutritional excellence can." Joel Fuhrman, M.D. in Disease-Proof Your Child

Children need the proper nutrition to fight off the illness that are in and around their bodies.  What we give them to eat for their bodies can affect their lives years later.  More information around nutrition is being found out and we need to listen to it so our children can have healthy lives.

Renee Madison, MA, LPC, CSAT is a counselor in Colorado.  She can be reached for appointments at 303-257-7623 or 970-324-6928