Is your child struggling with emotional, behavioral or learning challenges?
Nutrition impacts more than your child’s physical health, it influences how your child acts, feels and learns. You can reduce your child’s emotional outbursts, inattention, anxiety, hyperactivity, and learning disorder symptoms with a few changes in what they eat.
What should I feed my child and my family?
Healthy eating can feel like a minefield of choices, potentially wrong choices. It feels impossible to answer the question: what should my family eat? Every day there is another news headline that contradicts yesterday’s headline and parents feel lost and confused. Many times, parents throw their hands up in despair and conclude: “No one knows! I’ll just do what I’ve always done.” I don’t blame them.
I was so desperate to conquer the conflicting nutrition information that I went back to school to finally answer the question “what should we eat?”. I submerged myself into the science behind food and health — the real science, peer reviewed science, not the headline sound bites thrown around in the media or food trends by the latest health-guru. It was both exhilarating (I admit, I’m a research loving geek) and a little frustrating too.
Did I find the answer to what you should eat? Yes and no; it’s complicated.
There are several basic concepts that apply to everyone but everyone is unique and so are their diet needs. However, the most important thing I learned is how nutrition can dramatically impact many areas in our lives, from the expected diseases like Diabetes to areas where the nutrition connection is not as obvious – like mood, behavior, and cognition (learning).
What my child eats can impact how she acts or learns?
Absolutely, there is a direction connection between what your child eats and how her brain functions. Examining your child’s food intake and making healthier choices can dramatically improve symptoms of anxiety, hyperactivity, dyslexia, tantrums, tics, autism, and more. Sometimes, it is as simple as a few painless dietary changes and other times it takes a little more detective work to identify areas that need adjustment.
My goal is to walk parents through the process of transitioning their children to healthier diets so parents can spend more time enjoying their kids and less time worrying about them. I am aware of the many challenges parents face; as a mother of four, I know how overwhelming making a change in your family’s diet can feel and I work to make sure you have strategies that set you up for success.