Cold and flu viruses have an acidic environment that lacks oxygen to live. When your diet consists of many processed foods, refined and sweet that you create the ideal environment. No wonder so many children get sick right after Halloween!
To read the ingredient list of all your food and beverage labels before you buy them? If an 8 years cannot consider the entire list of food ingredients on the label, I probably consumed too many processed foods and chemicals. The goal is to return eating REAL food and making your first choice of a WATER beverage.
Here are 7 of the best tips to prevent the introduction of seasonal viruses your body:
1) Eats a diet based on vegetables to create an alkaline environment in your body.
Vegetables help create an environment in your body alkaline. Viruses cannot live in this environment. Children need at least 2-3 (1/2 cup each) servings of vegetables every day. Cut up vegetables sitting on children to snack on before dinner. Include a salad with lunch dinner. Throw some grated carrots in the muffins. Add some Pumpkin PANCAKES. Throw a handful of fresh spinach in the smoothie. Don't assume your kids won't eat their vegetables. My children ask for now and carrots salad. It is a good role model, as adults should eat 4-5 servings per day.
2) Go organic if it is about the "dirty dozen" list. The "dirty dozen" list contains the twelve fruits & vegetables most heavily sprayed with pesticides. This list has been compiled by the environmental working group from around 87,000 studies from the USDA and FDA 47 fruits and vegetable between 2000 and 2007. It is estimated that if they avoid eating organically grown not in this list, your pesticide exposure may be reduced to 80%. Here is the "dirty dozen" are listed in order of decreasing pesticides: peaches (worst), apples, sweet bell peppers, ribbed celery, nectarines, strawberries, cherries, kale, lettuce, grapes,
carrots, and pears.
Market of organic products is slightly more expensive initially, but prevention of pesticides, which tax your immune and lymphatic systems, to enter your House is worth. Also you will begin to notice that when you are feeding your body with REAL live foods containing phytochemicals, enzymes, vitamins and minerals your appetite decreases. This is because you are now feeding your body's cells and is no longer merely feeding your mouth with empty calories.
3) Go organic for milk products.
There are three main reasons for the selection of organic milk and yogurt. First, you will be able to avoid consuming pesticides cows consumed when eating grass seeds and sprayed with pesticides and herbicides. Secondly, you will be able to avoid consuming antibiotics and hormones injected cows before milking. Thirdly, I surprised to notice the improvement in the focus and your child's behavior. This last word is subjective for me. I noticed a dramatic improvement in the behaviour of my children. My three children is much calmer, more focused and more happy than our family switched to all organic milk and yogurt.
A bonus benefit is that since your taste just how rich and creamy milk organic flavors, you never want to go back to your old milk. Milk 1% is so rich, tastes like milk with 2%. Stonyfield Farm is our favorite option for organic yogurt. Corn syrup is also without or artificial sweeteners.
4) Satisfy your sweet tooth without sugar.
Sugar creates an acidic environment in your body and reduces the immune system. This includes the corn syrup that is on your component. Great substitutes of sugar or inulin is raw honey is false, 100% pure maple syrup or Agave Nectar. We use raw honey to replace sugar in muffin recipes and real maple syrup to sweeten our oatmeal.
Honey is also a strong cough suppressant surge. You can give your child a teaspoon of honey cough or shake stand into a cup of hot water or tea herbs. Please note children under the age of 12 months should not consume any honey (even cooked products), such as gastrointestinal has not developed enough to handle the spores of botulism. Corn syrup and molasses also contain botulism spores and should be avoided in infants aged under 12 months.
Use fruit to satisfy your sweet tooth family. Fruits, such as vegetables, produce an alkaline reaction in your body and therefore to reduce the risk of getting a cold or the flu. Children should consume 2-3 (1/2 cup) servings of fruit per day and adults should aim for 3-4 servings per day. Try frozen berries with organic yogurt and a little honey or Agave Nectar for real fine. Apples with a little peanut butter is a great premium snacks. We surprised to note that when you increase your fruit intake, your intense cravings for sugar will go away.
5) To the outside and move your body every day.
Be sure to get outside for 15 minutes daily to get fresh air and sunshine. You can get vitamin d from the sun shining on your skin. Vitamin d helps activate the immune response of the organization. This can be as simple as Walking your child in school or taking a family bike ride-15 minutes after school.
Ideally, you will be able to move your body for a total of 30 minutes per day. It is one of the most important reason to get your body moving for the benefits of stress-reduction. Excessive stress increases acidity of your organization and your cause would be prepared to the viruses. Exercise also helps increase your intake of oxygen and viruses do not like an oxygenated environment.
6) Get enough sleep.
Lack of sleep will increase the level of cortisol, a hormone which is stress. Cortisol increases the acidity of your organization, which then increases your susceptibility to cold and flu viruses. Children aged 5-12 need 10-11 hours sleep per night. Better sleep, must not have a Television in their bedroom or must be disconnected. Younger children need up to 12 hours per night, and most adults need 7-8 hours of restful sleep per night.
7) Maintain your nose clean.
To prevent the importation of the virus, your body needs to keep your nose clean. The Neti pot is a small ceramic pot designed specifically to evacuate from your nose. Just add hot water with the salt pot, tilt your head, pour the water into one nostril and watch out the other nostril. Also, you can swab the inside of your nose with warm salt water.
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