Building a Healthy Breakfast for Kids
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Building a Healthy Breakfast for Kids
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Breakfast truly is the most important meal of the day. Well, they’re all important actually… but breakfast is really critical, especially for kids.
The right kind of healthy breakfast can launch our children in the right direction for the rest of the day: optimal health, heightened immune function, optimal mental function and emotional balance, and peak physical performance.
Skipping breakfast robs our children of all these benefits.
The wrong kind of breakfast, one that is toxic and void of nutrients, will move them away from health, result in weakened immune response, decreased mental function and emotional imbalance, and lowered physical performance.
Pretty simple how that equation works.
What’s the “right” kind of breakfast? One that meets our innate genetic nutritional requirements for health. The nutritional components we require in order to create optimal health and function come from with The Circle of Health:
1) protein
2) healthy fats & oils
3) vegetables
4) fruit
5) pure water
Notice you don’t see grains or dairy on this list. They are highly controversial foods in science circles. Many experts argue that we shouldn’t consume these foods since our earliest ancestors did not and our genes are virtually identical… therefore our needs are the same. Others say we can have some, but not the conventional varieties that are extremely processed, refined and toxic. Either way, it appears as though these are not health-BUILDING foods.
To the food groups within The Circle of Health, we apply The 4 Golden Rules of Nutrition to maximize the nutritional benefit of these foods:
1) eat real food, not factory-made food
2) eat whole food; food closest to its naturally occurring state
3) eat the least-toxic food possible
4) eat fresh, local, seasonal and often raw food
Obviously, veggies are not the most popular option for most kids at breakfast! Therefore, we further chunk it down for simplicity sake. A healthy breakfast includes: protein, healthy fats/oils, fresh fiber (take your pick – fruit or veggies) and some water. Simple.
An example of a simple, quick breakfast for kids is: Whole free-range eggs (protein), cooked in real butter or pure coconut oil (healthy fats/oils), served with fresh fruit (fresh fiber) and a glass of water.
Your kids don’t like eggs? Other protein choices are raw nuts and nut butters (e.g. almond) or breakfast meats like sausage and bacon – opt for least-toxic varieties without steroids, hormones, antibiotics, and also varieties that were raised as grass-fed or free-range. Really, it doesn’t need to be a ‘breakfast’ meat… any clean meat will do.
For optimal nutritional benefit when creating a healthy breakfast for children, take the focus off the refined, sugary, starchy foods like cereal, bread, pastries, muffins, bagels, pre-made waffles and so on, as well as conventional dairy products.
If these are still part of your children’s breakfasts, at the very least, serve them along with the healthier options listed above. Better yet, choose the least toxic, most nutrient-rich options of grains and dairy: whole grains, sprouted grains, organic grains and dairy, whole fat dairy, raw dairy and cultured dairy products, like kefir. That way, you’re getting the most benefit out of those foods without all the toxic side effects.
HealthIER doesn’t need to be harder!
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