Triple Play for Healthy Bones

Helping children build healthy bones is an important job that all parents should know how to do.  Children build half of their bone mass during adolescence and reach their peak bone mass by age twenty.  The three most important factors for building healthy, strong bones in your children are calcium, vitamin D from exposure to sunlight and exercise.

Poor nutrition, lack of outdoor activities and lack of exercise have health experts very concerned as cases of Rickets in are rising fast in American children.  Rickets is a childhood bone disease that is typically seen only in third world developing countries.  It causes the bones to ache and to become deformed starting at a young age. 

According to Dr. James Beaty, President of the American Academy of Orthopedic  Surgeons,  "There's some early data showing that even a 10 percent deficit in your bone mass when you finish your adolescent years can increase your potential risk of having osteoporosis and fractures as much as 50 percent”.

When it comes to American children, the experts believe that poor nutrition combined with too much TV, internet and computer game time is an issue that parents need to address immediately.  "This potentially is a time-bomb," says Dr. Laura Tosi, bone health chief at Children's National Medical Center in Washington D.C.

What’s the solution?  Good nutrition, sunshine and exercise!

Calcium is the building block of healthy bones.  Foods which are good sources of calcium include fat-free or low-fat milk, yogurt, cheese, canned fish with bones, nuts, fruits, vegetables, dried beans, rice beverages, molasses and some leafy greens.

The best source of vitamin D is natural sunlight, that’s why getting outdoors is so important for your children.  When the kids are playing outdoors they are getting both exercise and vitamin D.  If you would like to read more research regarding the health benefits of sunlight, please click these two links:

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The Wholefood Farmacy can offer you some wonderfully healthy foods and snacks for you and your kids.  These are the perfect snacks for outdoor activities at any time of the year.

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 Walnuts
 

Back in 1993, the original Walnut Study from Loma Linda University made headlines around the world and was published in the New England Journal of Medicine.

Why all the excitement? Because Loma Linda University had broken new ground. They were the first to find that walnuts in a controlled diet reduced LDL (bad) cholesterol and heart disease risk significantly more than the Step 1 diet that was then recommended by the American Heart Association.  In other words - they proved, scientifically, that food really can be your medicine.
 
In April 2000, another landmark walnut study was published in the Annals of Internal Medicine. The study, a follow-up to the 1993 Loma Linda study, was conducted at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona. Researchers had 49 men and women with high cholesterol incorporate walnuts into a healthy Mediterranean diet, substituting a handful of walnuts a day for some of the monounsaturated fat in the diet.

Participants lowered their "bad" LDL cholesterol by almost 6 per cent and heart disease risk by 11 per cent beyond what would be expected from the Mediterranean diet alone. The Loma Linda study participants substituted walnuts, one of nature's richest sources of polyunsaturated fat, for saturated fat. The Barcelona participants substituted walnuts for another healthy fat.

Barcelona scientists also remarked on the ease of incorporating walnuts into the diet. According to researcher Juan Carlos Laguna, Ph.D., "That's the main point of the study. You eat a normal amount, like five or six walnuts a day. That's something you can do every day without any problem."

We encourage parents to consider bringing walnuts home from the store in place of cheese puffs, potato chips and other processed food snacks. Let the kids open the walnuts themselves and enjoy the very heatlhy treat inside. You can also find walnuts in many of your favorite Wholefood Farmacy foods including Phi Plus, TropiPhi, Coco Cherry Phi and Cranberry Phi.


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TropiPhi is know as the "Rolls Royce" of snack foods and it's made from macadamia nuts, walnuts, brazil nuts, pineapple, papaya, mango, bananas, coconut flakes, brown rice, & orange oil. If you've got a "sweet tooth" then TropiPhi offers real satisfaction in the healthiest way imaginable.

We encourage parents everywhere to consider guiding themselves and their children down a healthier path by replacing processed and refined grains with healthy, natural whole grains such as brown rice.  The healthy habits that your children learn from you while young will stay with them and be passed on for generations to come.

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"Let food be thy medicine and let medicine be thy food"
Hippocrates, the Father of Medicine (460-377 B.C.)

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TropiPhi is know as the "Rolls Royce" of snack foods and it's made from macadamia nuts, walnuts, brazil nuts, pineapple, papaya, mango, bananas, coconut flakes, brown rice, & orange oil. If you've got a "sweet tooth" then TropiPhi offers real satisfaction in the healthiest way imaginable.

We encourage parents everywhere to consider guiding themselves and their children down a healthier path by replacing processed and refined grains with healthy, natural whole grains such as brown rice.  The healthy habits that your children learn from you while young will stay with them and be passed on for generations to come.

Visit The Wholefood Farmacy