Five tips for raising healthy, intelligent children

Be strict with sugar

Give complex carbohydrates e.g. wholegrains, vegetables, pulses, beans, apples
Avoid simple sugars e.g. white bread, biscuits, and sweets
Limit fruits such as bananas, grapes, dried fruits
Uneven blood sugar levels can cause irritability, tantrums, lower IQ

Daily multivitamin and mineral
Choose one suitable for child’s age
Helps increase non-verbal IQ

Essential fats

Eat omega 3 rich foods daily – oily fish (3/week), nuts, and seeds
Limit saturated fats from red meat and dairy products
Avoid transfats from processed and fried food
Essential fats help keep children physically well, reduce allergies, asthma, eczema and infections. They promote mental health and help prevent depression, ADHD and autism

Be allergy aware

1 in 5 children react to common foods such as milk, wheat, yeast, eggs, peanuts and soya. This can lead to fatigue, eczema, asthma, constipation, ear infections, irritability, ADHD, autism, learning disabilities.

Interest children in food

Take children shopping; ask them to choose

healthy foods

Encourage them to cook and eat what they have prepared
Don’t give in too easily…be strict!