Why do Kids today have so many problems?

[Rare Feathers Farm]

Quote:
I agree

 

[PaulaJoAnne]

Quote:
What Dr. Price found, was when modern foods were fed, the physical structure fell apart.
His photos speak for themselves.
He took thousands of them, some of which he put in his book.
Food allergies are common today, and it has more to do with the preparation of foods, along with the toxic environment we live in.
These things are naturally passed on through the mother. All babies are born with the same gut bacteria that the mother has, and each generation gets a bit worse.

Truth is I don't trust those photos. How do I know which children ate what? I know kids today who eat chips and candy, don't brush their teeth, or go to the dentist and have sickeningly perfect straight white teeth....then others who eat healthy, brush, regular checkups, and have rotten teeth. Doesn't add up to me.

Well, candy does not cause cavities or rottenness.
Its phytic acid in grains.
Science has actually proven this to be true.
Perfectly straight teeth have more to do with what mommy ate while pregnant then anything else.
If she got enough natural vitamin A and D in her diet, her child is more likely to have straight teeth.

ETA:
Also, the children in those pics do not have crooked teeth and small jaws because of what they ate.
They were born after modern foods were brought in, and there parents had moved away from their traditional diets.

 

[noodleroo]

I think you are on the right track, Pineapplemomma. How many of us eat something that was alive on the same day we ate it? All the toxins and preservatives are cumulative. We should at least pay attention to what we feed our children...

 

[ruth]

Quote:
Amen.

The only exercise most kids get today is their thumbs. They can't stay off the game boxes and the text messages. Whatever happened to "go outside and play....come back at dark" and then have the family sit down to dinner, together, and talk. (A real dinner - not the fast food poison).

 

[Steve_of_sandspoultry]

Quote:
Amen.

The only exercise most kids get today is their thumbs. They can't stay off the game boxes and the text messages. Whatever happened to "go outside and play....come back at dark" and then have the family sit down to dinner, together, and talk. (A real dinner - not the fast food poison).

Now days go out and play is punishment. wow how things have changed huh?

Steve

 

[Rusty Hills Farm]

While I agree that there is plenty of room for improvement in our kids' diets, I still don't think they are worse off than the kids from the 1800s. I think that period is being romanticized. Yes, our kids eat a lot of crap. They are not nearly active enough. But contrast that to centuries back when a family grew all their own food. If you've ever grown a garden, you know how many crop failures you have. How many times a late spring frost gets some or an early fall frost gets it all. Then there are the years that rain just isn't there and the bugs are terrible. There are MANY years when the garden just doesn't yield what we expected it to. Or the cow aborts so there is no freshening that year. Nowadays, we just go to the store and pick up what we need. Back then they just ate whatever survived...and sometimes went hungry because they were cash-poor as well. Diets were often unbalanced and they did not have the luxury of cheap multivitamins like we do to help replace the missing nutrients.

All in all I really don't think the majority of folks had that great a diet. And they certainly did not know what we do now about which nutrients are vital.

And, yes, our kids spend too much time indoors, texting and such. But that is still better than the kids who worked in sweatshops for unending hours and never saw the light of day, ate poorly, and didn't get enough sleep.

So my own personal view is that we need to take all that modern science has learned for us about what is healthy and what is not and apply it to our lives today. We KNOW grassfed beef is better. We KNOW foodstuffs full of hormones are bad. We KNOW which calories are empty. We KNOW the dangers of too much salt and WHICH fats are bad and that sugar kills. But do not let ANYBODY tell you we don't have it better than our ancestors did because that just ain't so. We have KNOWLEDGE they had not a clue about.

Oh, and BTW about the jaw/teeth stuff. Anthropology tells us that it takes hundreds of years for the skeleton of any animal to change and evolve, not just a generation. I really think that all the good doctor was seeing is our melting pot ancestry in action-- Swede marrying German marrying Spaniard marrying Englishman marrying Chinese sort of thing rather than anything evolutionary from diet.


JMO


Rusty

 

[PineappleMama]

I wonder if anyone's done a study on the effects of the timing of exposure?

Don't know if it's even possible but... well the Grands have been for years now eating the same meats as everyone else... no longer farm foods... they buy theirs. Exposure to this stuff started late in life... and they still lived a long time.

With me, being 30, the really hard core stuff didn't start up when I was small, I don't think?? Did it? When exactly did they start in with the hormones for instance?

Versus my kiddos, born in 98 and 02, who've had these foods since birth.

Wonder if there's any way to document the difference when exposure begins PAST age 5... age 10... once puberty... once past menopause ...

Just a stray thought.