Anti-Stress Nutrition Programme to Improve Mood,
Health, Behaviour and Learning
By Brenda Sampson
GOOD AND BAD FOOD
Dr. Marshall Mandell, the famous allergist, said that he had never met a child who wanted to be bad. "Every child who has entered my office with what I call "cerebral allergy" has been a child who, when not reacting, wanted to please, wanted to do well, wanted to be accepted."
People and children often do not know that every human thought and action (possibly pain)is made out of food. This is an astonishing miracle; that a plate of food is changed in the body into a violin solo, a song, a poem, a try in a rugby game, a quarrel, a fight that destroys a marriage or friendship, or a kindness that heals one. All these are made out of food. Good food has good results; bad food the opposite. If I were talking to children I would say: "Do you want to be popular? Do you want other kids to like and enjoy your company? Do you want to be near the top of the class instead of the bottom? Do you want the teacher to stop being angry with you? Do you want your mother and father to like you? Do you want to have a better appearance? Do you want to be well instead of sick. Less colds, flu, earache, asthma, eczema, acne, headaches or leg aches? Do you want to improve at sports, and games? Do you want to succeed in life, do well and earn good money?"
Your body will reward you with all these things, if you will just do one thing for your body, that is to give it the best food instead of the worst. If you want to be well, happy, and successful, you have to give your body good fuel; the best kind of food instead of the worst. Everybody knows that the worst food can be made to taste nice by putting sugar and artificial flavouring in it; and that people like to eat this kind of food. Manufacturers are very clever at inventing things that taste nice, so that people will give them money in exchange for a nice taste. But this is poor exchange; this nice taste is only in your mouth for a minute while you are eating the food; it is lost when you swallow it as it contains very little if any, nutrition. Whereas the advantages of eating good-quality foods are of permanent benefit. They benefit you all your life! Always remember that your body is the most valuable thing you will ever own; even if you grow up to be a millionaire with a yacht and a private aeroplane, you will never have anything as valuable as your own body and good health. Take care of it!
SAFE FOODS FOR ALLERGIC AND CHEMICALLY SENSITIVE CHILDREN AND ADULTS
A famous doctor two hundred years ago said, "The two best physicians are simple food and pure water". This is still true today, when pure water is rare and requires an expensive water purifier; and simple food is totally out of fashion. It has been estimated that 90% of all the human race who have ever lived on earth, have had to hunt or gather their food. Only 6% have been farmers growing their own food; only 4% have lived as we do buying their food in shops. The human race is probably millions of years old. It is programmed to thrive on the foods that were available when it was being created; these were probably leaves and fruits (berries, seeds, nuts), roots, the flesh of birds, fish and small animals, and water to drink. It is not programmed to thrive on the commercial food of the 1990's.
Eva Hill, a New Zealand doctor who specialised in curing terminal cancer with raw energy diet, said, "Eat your food as God made it; not as man mucks about with it. The safest foods are those that most closely resemble wild food. The following foods are low allergen (unlikely to be allergic) and also provide a very healthy diet.
