A Believer Who Takes Herbal Products

by Nelly Paekukui
(Honolulu, HI, USA)

As a believer who takes herbal products and has experienced the great health benefits for which they are all about, I would like to share with people that natural herbal products are all about nutrition. Giving the body the things that it craves to be healthy allows it to function properly.

An average diet today contains more salts, sugars, fats, preservatives, calories, BUT LESS of fiber and protein, amino acids, complex carbs, vitamins and minerals.

An Herbal diet is the reverse of that average diet.

Parents need to learn to make healthier choices, which in turn will help them to teach their children to do the same.

Bringing awareness to those serious to make a change is the beginning of helping with this epidemic of child obesity. If nothing is done while in the early years to establish good health and nutritional habits, health challenges are more likely to develop when they reach adulthood.

Diet is the food that we take in, but nutrition is what we supplement our diet with to get optimal health.

It is a matter of teaching people that they do have choices when it involves their health, and they do hold the key in determining whether they want to do something about it or not.

There are some who do not think they really have a problem, as they do not take it seriously at all. If that is the case, I just love them and pray for them.


response:

You are right parents are role models and need to set a healthy example. Children are imitators and they follow the lead of their parents from a young age.

Children develop eating habits and tastes for certain foods in early childhood. If parents have a "sweet tooth" chances are their children will too.

Many parents of obese children are overweight themselves. Asking a child not to eat something while the parents are indulging in unhealthy eating is counter productive.

It is a family affair and needs to be addressed as a family.