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Multivitamins for Children

A good diet, plenty of fresh air and exercise plus lots of love and attention will generally keep your child healthy, bright and happy. But a good diet isn’t always easy to maintain in a child and assumes that your child enjoys eating leafy green foods and oily fish on a regular basis.

No-one would suggest that stuffing your child full of vitamin pills is the solution either, but a balanced diet topped up with a good quality multivitamin and essential fatty acids can give reassurance to parents that their children are avoiding any obvious nutritional deficiencies.

There is a no-nonsense, no-nasties multivitamin complex which contain the Government recommended levels of nutrients for children, without the unnecessary additives contained in many other children’s vitamin products. These are also genuinely sugar-free with no hidden extras, no aspartame, saccharine or other sweeteners – not even fructose, just the vitamins and minerals your child needs each day in a tiny, easy-to-swallow, all-vegetarian/vegan capsule.

The multivitamin complex is seriously formulated for long-term daily intake during the early years, the all-important pre- and post-pubescent transition and onwards into adulthood.

NOTE: This information is not intended to replace the guidance of a health practitioner. Consult your doctor if your child is already taking medication. Do not alter medication without the strict guidance of a doctor or qualified practitioner.

Want to Lose Fat – Restrict Your Carbohydrates

In 1956 Prof. Alan Kekwick and Gaston Pawan, MD, at Middlesex Hospital, London, England, conducted tests of 4 varieties of 1,000 kcal/day diets: 90% fat (by fuel values), 90% protein, 90% carbohydrate, and a normal mixed diet.

Subjects on the high-fat diet lost much more weight than any of the others.  Several subjects on the high-carb diet actually gained weight, even at only 1000 kcal/day!

Even at 2,600 kcal/day of very low-carb diet, subjects lost weight. Thus the dogma that a “balanced” diet is best for almost everyone had been falsified a half century ago.

Examination of at least two dozen recent controlled diet trials by an equal number of authors in several countries led to these conclusions:

1. Carb restriction improved control of serum glucose, the primary target of nutritional therapy, and reduced insulin fluctuations.

2. Carb-restricted diets are at least as effective for weight loss as low-fat diets.

3. Substitution of fat for carb is generally beneficial for markers of and for the actual incidence of cardiovascular disease. [This means that a diet of 25% carb, 25% protein and 50% fat will be optimum for many folks. Some have followed such diets for over 50 years.]

4. Carb restriction has benefits even in the absence of weight loss.