FACTORS TO CONSIDER
Age/Gender/Pregnancy
Dietary basics such as fresh air, full-spectrum daylight and sunshine, pure water, quality protein, EFAs in balance, complex carbohydrates, enzymes, minerals, and vitamins are necessary for survival. Though not dietary, human contact, male/female connections, earthing, and connecting with nature are also vital for well-being and longevity. However, men, women, pregnant women, teenagers, children, and seniors have different nutritional requirements.
Children and teenagers require an organic diet that promotes healthy growth and development. Their diet should include EFAs in balance, especially omega-3, DHA, and C-15, quality animal protein, mineral-rich foods, natural vitamins A, pure water, plenty of natural daylight, and sunshine vitamin D. For optimum growth, development, and mental health, children and teenagers need to AVOID refined sugar and carbohydrates, damaged fats/oils, junk foods, fluoride, sodas, and GMOs.
READ my articles, Light-A Vital Nutrient and Know Your Fats and Oils, Sweet Treat Addiction: The Scourge of Sugar in Masters of Health magazine, or on the Nutrition page at NourishingBasics.com.
Also, READ Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price, DDS, What’s Making Our Children Sick?, by Vincanne Adams, PhD and Michelle Perro, MD, and Toxic Legacy, by Dr. Stephanie Seneff, PhD.
Young women of childbearing age and pregnant women require a well-balanced, nourishing organic diet that includes high-quality protein; EFAs in balance; iodine, selenium, zinc, magnesium, natural iron (from food), and other minerals; fiber; probiotics; prebiotics; and vital nutrients such as methyl folate, vitamins A, C, E, K, B12, B complex, sunshine vitamin D, and pure water.
Taking a poor-quality synthetic prenatal supplement with synthetic iron during pregnancy creates a vitamin E deficiency that can contribute to premature birth and jaundice in the newborn. Applying natural vitamin E oil (from a supplement) to the breast before nursing can rid the baby of jaundice. A vitamin E deficiency can also cause defects in the development of the brain’s sex pattern. For example, the brain may be female, but the body male, or vice versa. Sexual confusion is increasing among today’s youth.
Fluoride, a neurotoxin and endocrine disruptor, lowers a baby’s IQ and blocks the mother’s thyroid uptake and production of iodine. An iodine deficiency can cause Down syndrome.
A vegetarian diet (vegan in particular), if not carefully balanced, can be dangerous for a mother and her unborn child. A B12 and folate (folic acid is the synthetic form) deficiency can cause spina bifida in the baby.