Family Eating Habits Train Children For a Lifetime

By Ellen Valentine, CNC

Watch people eat and you will get some idea of how their digestion is. Whether it's in the car, at a well set table, in a restaurant or at a desk, it should always be a conscious act. When food is simply the unconscious act of putting in food as fast as can be accomplished, it is a mix for disease. If that is what children memorize as mealtime we are setting the next generation up for indigestion and illness.

Because the human body is 99.999 formless energy, with only the remainder what we call material form; then, eating foods that are alive with energy will support the vibrant continuation of physical form. Eating with gratitude and with good supportive company will also help foods digest well.

Children brought up in a home that celebrates mealtimes will have better digestion as adults. The dinner table is not the time for interrogation or reprimand. If children grow with a bad frame of reference around mealtime they may grow into adults that dread sitting down with others to eat. Their digestion will definitely not be good unless they get help later on to realize the source of the problem.

Foods easily ingested by one child cause allergic reactions in their sibling. Lack of consideration in this area has resulted in at least a few children with chronic indigestion and bad eating habits for a lifetime. Food preferences go beyond likes and dislikes, being picky or being a so called good eater. It involves blood types and what is termed in Eastern Indian Cultures dosha types. Every person is unique and varied in what they are designed to digest.

So how does all of this relate to losing weight and being healthy? Foods that do not digest well with digestive juices flowing beginning in the mouth, then the stomach and into the small intestine will begin to putrefy in the system. Calling that scenario indigestion is over-simplifying the fact. It is the cause of all disease, including allergies and over weight conditions, bad skin, bad temper, inability to focus, virtually every ailment under the sun.

Is it possible to change eating habits after years of abuse? Of course it is possible and it's never too late. Will you have to give up everything you have a taste for? No, you will make some changes and simply eat more consciously, according to who you are and your body type. You will seek balance.

Youll never have to starve, maybe eat smaller and more consciously arranged meals, get a juicer and perhaps eat 75% raw or lightly cooked foods. There are thousands of sweetener choices but rather than choose white sugar or a toxic substitute you may learn to like Stevia or honey. Before you drink that first cup of coffee in the morning you can drink one or two full glasses of water with fresh organic lemon squeezed into it. You'll look for and give yourself leverage.

Conscious food choices, gratitude, relaxing meals and pure water all lend to the health and radiant look we feel good wearing, no matter what age we are. Every choice for health and more discipline will empower you in every aspect of life. Every self-enhancing choice will also add to the environment and give a great example to the next generation. You will have the mind and body you want at all stages in your life. That's really healthy aging.

Eat Consciously, Live Better, Ellen Valentine, CNC - 30224

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