FEED RIGHT TO MAKE YOUR KIDS BRIGHT PART-1 (Way to increase IQ of your child by the right food)

Dr. Arvind Dubey

Some are born bright to many more it can be fed by their caring parents.  You may be one of them but how?  By giving them right quality of balanced food, by feeding them with the foods which help their brain to achieve its atmost potential and by avoiding the food which may turn them into Jekyll and Hydes, which may make them slow learner and hyperactive.  But from where one can get these foods.  Form your own kitchen.  It has been proved that by careful feeding one can increase the IQ of his or her kid by as much as 35.  So why not come along and try, not from tomorrow but from this very moment.

DANGEROUS FOODS

Food industries have progressed relentlessly in last few years.  Consequently the food market is now full of useless junk foods such as fast foods, easy to cook food, so called two-minute foods, ready to serve foods etcetera. These processed foods are simply useless and most of the time these are harmful to the developing brain of your child.

Salicylates: 

These are the compound used in various medications such as aspirin and other fever and pain reducing drugs.  It has been observed that children who consume food containing salicylates and other additives develop a symptom complex, the hyperactivity.

Hyperactive children:

 These are the children who cannot sit still for a brief moment, have a shorter attention span than it takes to read a line of type, are often uncontrollable and have sleep problems.  They go on unstoppable verbal marathons.  They are imitated by almost everything and usually respond with aggression.  They may be so disruptive in nature that they are presumed a nuiscence every where, either it is a playground, a classroom or their home.

What salicylates do?

Salicylates sharply reduce the amounts of vitamin C, B-complex and minerals like calcium, potassium and iron in child’s brain.  Deprivation of any of these may result in hyperactivity and salicylates may cause deficiency of all of these.

Salicylate containing foods:  

These are, some fruits such as apples, apricots, blackberries, cherries, grapes, oranges, peaches, plums, prunes, resins, raspberries, strawberries etc. and few vegetables such as cucumbers, tomatoes and their products. For detailed information regarding Salicylate content of food items click here

Stop giving your child such foods:

If you are sure on the basis of above said symptoms that your child is hyperactive then scan the items he eats and then only remove the food, which can cause it from this list and observe for the cure.  However doctors now a days recommends a diet with right amount of vitamins and minerals to compensate the loss of these vitamins by salicylate.  So it is better to consult you paediatrician after your hit and trial method of avoiding such foods fails.

Save your child’s brain by home made recipes:

Food additives too can cause hyperactivity in your child.  With the advent of junk foods these are present in almost all the food available in the market.  These substances are always mixed in food to hide some thing, which is disagreeable, foul smelling or noxious to the health.  Otherwise natural food doesn’t need any additive as they have their own natural pleasant colours and odour. So how to avoid it? Of course by home made freshly prepared recipes for your child.

II.Cerebral allergens (Foods that makes your child a slow learner)

Few of the day-to-day foods, act as allergens to brain are: soybean, bread and other backed goods, corn and corn products, grapefruit, lemons, lentils, limes, oranges peanuts, peas, potatoes, wheat germ etc.

How to recognize that slow learning is due to brain allergens:

As there may be many causes of slow learning tendency. If slow learning is accompanied by paleness, feeling under par, circles or bags under eyes, chronic stuffy nose, excessive sneezing, vague aches and pains, itching, rashes bedwetting, puffiness or bloating, wheezing etcetera it may be considered be due to cerebral allergens.  By removing the items one by one from the above list and observing the child for 8 days one can point out the possible culprit in the food.  But it is a long process.  So help of a medical allergy specialist may be taken for quick results and treatment in the form of desensitization against that particular food because the elemination diets (diets avoiding offending food elements) are not very convenient to arrange and tolerate both for the family and the kids too.

How these allergens act:

These allergens diminish the brain’s supply of certain vitamins and (Vit C, B₆, Pentothenic acid) minerals (calcium, copper, zinc, iron, magnesium, phosphorus,  selinium and chromium) below the levels that prevent total slow learning syndrome.  These levels are different for every particular child that’s why every child who is consuming these allergens is not affected.  A diet, capable of supplementing above said vitamins and minerals might counteract the effect of these allergens.  So help of a nutritionist may be sought.

Ref- salicylatesensitivity.com   (Continued in next post--------------------)