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Dec 15, 2013 Features / Columnists, Food For Thought

And we wonder today why some children have problems in school and why they can’t seem to concentrate. Many times, it’s because of their poor diet.
I read a study that was done with sixty-eight troubled teenagers. These young men were incarcerated in a juvenile detention center. They were in bad shape. It looked like they were destined for prison. But they decided to experiment with their diet. So they replaced all the colas and fruit drinks with unsweetened juice and with water. All the jellies and donuts and sweetened cereals in the morning were eliminated totally. They changed out the snack machines with fresh fruit machines. After dinner each night, the desserts were replaced with peanuts, carrot sticks, cheese and popcorns. Three months after making those changes, the number of continually proned troubled teenagers dropped eighty percent. Think about that. Eight in ten showed significant improvement by just changing what they ate.
Today we hear a lot about attention deficit disorder, ADD. These children seem kind of hyper and over stimulated. We tend to just want to medicate them and change them with chemicals. And maybe that’s okay for some of them. But we need to pay attention to their diet. We need to make sure they’re getting the right nutrition. I read one study that showed seventy-five percent of the children had a problem with their blood sugar. That’s the root cause. We can medicate them all day long, but if we start treating the source rather than the symptom, then we can correct the problem and do our children greater justice.
When we give our children healthy food to eat, it not only gives them the right type of good energy, it gives them a sharper mind. It gives them greater mental capacity.
The Bible says in Proverbs 22:6 “to train a child in the way he should go, and even when he is old, he will not depart from it.” For the sake of their calling, and destiny they’re created to fulfill by Almighty God, do your part by teaching your children healthy eating habits so that they will be strong and mighty in the land! [By Joel Osteen]

 

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