Our Children Are Not Healthy

The percentage of overweight children in the United States is growing at an alarming rate, with 1 out of 3 kids now considered overweight or obese. Many kids are spending less time exercising and more time in front of the TV, computer, or video-game console.

Children have a great health risk primarily because they consume excessive amounts of sugar and carbohydrates. No children in history have been so overfed on calories and underfed on nutrients as today's children. The Standard American Diet of calories, highly processed and cooked foods, with very little raw produce is the root of the danger to children's future health.

One writer challenged parents to stop this nutritional madness by saying: "If we were purposefully trying to set our children up for future health problems and a lower life expectancy than any previous generation, we couldn't do any greater damage to them than we are doing with the Standard American Diet."

By Age Eight Our Children's Bodies Have Been Greatly Damaged

When parents allow children's taste buds to daily delight in S.A.D. food, the result is that already by the age of eight years:

1. 40% of our children have symptoms associated with heart disease.
2. Juvenile diabetes is at epidemic levels... which sets up cardiovascular problems, glycation and aging of our cells.
3. Children's immune systems are compromised, creating (currently) unhealthy kids and (future) unhealthy adults.