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"Don't forbid your child from ever taking a bite of junk food?Jean-Pierre Barral put it best when he wrote: "Parents who know how to explain and give good advice don't need to forbid." Talk to your kids about why eating junk food is bad, so that by the time they're adolescents, they're educated enough to make healthy decisions even when you're not around. This is how we re raising Wyatt—it's not as if we never, ever permit potato chips to cross the threshold of our kitchen. Not at all; absolute denial is never a good idea." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Aren't these diseases occurring because people who eat junk food get fatter?" "Obesity is certainly a risk factor," Greg replied. "But eating junk food also creates chronic inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. The inflammatory response is good if we have an infection, but triggering it all the time by eating bad foods causes the body to produce chemicals that wreak havoc on our organs and arteries. People think that our skin is the main way our bodies interact with the outside world, but it is actually through our digestive tract—our stomach, large intestines, and small intestines." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"THE ESSENTIALS OF FOOD Real Food Versus Junk Food Real food contributes to health. junk food contributes to disease. It is denatured and contains little or no health-producing properties. Our bodies are always looking for food that contains usable components.2 Glucose—for energy. Protein?amino acids) for building and repairing tissue. Fatty Acids—to construct membranes and move electrical currents. Ionic, food-form minerals—as catalysts and building components. Enzymes (vitamins)—as catalysts. Water—the medium for chemical processes. Real foods:3 Are edible, and grown by nature." - Ron Garner, Conscious Health: A Complete Guide to Wellness Through Natural Means (Get the book.)

"We can also tax foods by levying things such as the junk food tax. Although I'm not a big fan of increasing taxes or using taxes for social reform, it is true that taxing junk foods would make them less affordable to most citizens and might cause some people to choose alternative sources of food such as healthy snack foods. In other words, if we made unhealthy snack foods the same price as healthy snack foods by taxing the junk foods, people would have a more balanced choice of what they want to eat." - Mike Adams, The Seven Laws of Nutrition (Get the book.)

"I want to make one last plea for getting the junk food out of your life. I know it is usually tasty, to say the least, but the fact is junk foods all have: high glucose, sugar, and salt, and all become addictive. Who wants to be an addict all of their life, and pay for it with poor health? What are Junk Foods? • Breads pastry, biscuits, breakfast cereals, polished (white) rice, potatoes and potato products, parsnips, and pasta. • Intensive farmed meats and fish, i.e., fed on grains and cereals to fatten them quickly, instead of the natural food in nature." - Robert Redfern, The Miracle Enzyme Is Serrapeptase (Get the book.)

"The truth is, cheese has no redeeming qualities; I call it the king of junk food. Unfortunately, cheese is the only dairy product with growing sales. The average American diet contains about 30 to 50 points of excess acid a day. How quickly you can discard this acid in your urine depends on how well hydrated you are and how much kidney function you have. The older you are, the less acid you can handle because your kidney function declines with age. If you have longstanding diabetes or high blood pressure, these diseases reduce your kidney function and your capacity to dump acid." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) "Avoid junk food. And if you do want to snack on something you can't resist, just be sure to fill yourself up by eating your healthy foods first. Then you can use your remaining appetite for chocolate-covered nuts or raisins. ?Keep fresh fruit handy for you, your coworkers, and your family. This simple move will make people around you eat less trash food. Option 1 xh cup chopped walnuts with flax meal 1 banana dipped in walnuts 1 apple Option 2 1 boiled egg 1 banana dipped in walnuts and flax meal 1 orange Doing Dinner Right What if your spouse, kids, or partner refuses to eat this way?" - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"The following quotes come from an agenda of economics, not conscious health concerns. junk food, empty calories, low nutrient density, high-sugar content, and low-fiber foods can never be considered healthy by the wildest stretch of the imagination. It is time we stop listening to the economic propaganda of the Culture of Death: It is the position of the American Dietetic Association that all foods can fit into a healthful eating style. ADA POSITION STATEMENT All foods and beverages can fit into a healthy diet." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "They can buy junk food readily from machines in their schools. We act as if this is not really happening, but data of the diabetes pandemic show the hard-core reality. The dramatic increase in Type-2 diabetes among children is an ominous symptom of the Culture of Death lifestyle. How much more suffering and disability do we need to wake up from this deadly lifestyle and diet of the Culture of Death? COSTS TO SOCIETY By 2025, the largest increases in diabetes prevalence will take place in developing countries. Each year an additional 7 million people worldwide develop diabetes." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Type-2 diabetes is a pandemic wake-up call to the world to change its diet and lifestyle relying on junk food and high-sugar and high-saturated-animal-fat, trans-fatty-acid, pesticide- and herbicide-laden food. First, we must understand the full extent of the problem among nations and cultures. An obvious result of this discordant diet and lifestyle is obesity. We need to be clear: Obesity does not cause diabetes, but is a symptom of the diet and lifestyle that create diabetes." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "In addition, the junk food diet fills us with empty calories, leaving us more hungry and further craving food. For example, to make this point crystal clear, shopping the center of the supermarket (where the processed foods are) can create diabetes. Adam Drewnowski, an obesity researcher at the University of Washington, wanted to figure out why it is that the most reliable predictor of obesity in America is a person's low economic status. Drewnowski gave himself a hypothetical dollar to spend, using it to purchase as many calories as he could." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"It is not unusual for people with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes who are depressed to eat junk food, skip meals, not exercise, and forget to monitor their blood glucose levels. Like Jessica, they feel hopeless, that whatever they do will not make a significant difference. Nothing could be further from the truth. Treating Depression Without Drugs: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy For many years, it was widely believed that antidepressants were the only effective, initial treatment for people who suffered from moderate to severe depression. Recent studies, however, are proving that wrong." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"It is junk food. • Enriched wheat flour is white flour. The bran and the germ portion of the whole wheat, which are rich in vitamins and minerals, have been refined out. To compensate for refining out approximately 20 nutrients, they add back four. Use only whole wheat flour, it must have the word whole on the label. • High fructose corn syrup is a concentrated form of sugar derived from corn. • Dough conditioners, in general, can cause mineral deficiencies, and ammonium sulfate in particular may cause mouth ulcers, nausea, and kidney and liver problems." - Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat For Health: Lose Weight, Keep It Off, Look Younger, Live Longer (2 book set) (Get the book.)

"So from the very beginning, keep your kids away from junk food. Give them healthy sandwiches with fruit instead of candy, and water instead of sodas. And you don't have to sacrifice comfort foods, either—you can make healthy antioxidant pizza. Slowly replace white rice with brown rice. And get your kids involved in the kitchen—show them how to chop up kale and crush garlic. Make mealtimes a pleasurable, relaxed experience for the whole family. Nursing Immediately after childbirth, you face your first big decision about that baby's diet: to breastfeed or not to breastfeed?" - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"For the most part, it's the same basic advice your own mom probably gave you: Eat your fruits and vegetables, go easy on the sweets, keep the junk food to a minimum, eat enough protein, and if a certain food doesn't seem to agree with you, don't eat it. In a very real sense, that advice covers all six of these diets. As I've often said, Moms know. THE TWO FOOD REACTION DIETS You should start your child's new diet by removing the foods that don't agree with him or her. By this, I mean the foods that cause food reactions: allergies, sensitivities, and intolerances." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Talk to your kids about why eating junk food is bad, so that by the time they're adolescents, they're educated enough to make healthy decisions even when you're not around. This is how we re raising Wyatt—it's not as if we never, ever permit potato chips to cross the threshold of our kitchen. Not at all; absolute denial is never a good idea. We do keep chips in our house, but instead of munching them thoughtlessly every day of the week, we save them for a treat—once a month, or every other weekend on a Saturday night, or during a Sunday ball game." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Conditioning Your Kids to Eat Healthy Getting rid of milk, cheese, junk food, and sweets will make your child protest, but don't be discouraged. Young children and older children are still developing their tastes, and they can change. Teens and adults can more easily handle the rationale behind this book and recognize the great benefits. In tackling this challenge, here are a few things to remember: • Kids can understand the importance of eating their vegetables if you explain it to them the right way." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.) "Birthday parties present children with stumbling blocks: lack of structure, junk food sugar, and the need to follow directions and cooperate with peers. For a child with ADD/ADHD or similar symptoms, these are ingredients for disaster. Children with ADD/ADHD often fall apart in social settings like birthday parties. Their symptoms get worse, the other children tease and exclude them, and pretty soon they find themselves left off invitation lists for future parties. When I ask these children who their best friends are, they sometimes reply with a name the parents haven't heard before. " - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Television promotes junk food, television promotes violence. Children are indoors, not exercising, playing kick the can or riding bicycles. They're not getting full spectrum light that they get from sunlight; they're sitting in shaded rooms. "Children need one-on-one attention. They need to be held, looked at and listened to. In our rushed world today, many parents struggle to do this, but they can't give their children the bed time stories, the hugging, the rocking to sleep, a lot of the things that I grew up with." Increased use of antibiotic drugs is another major factor. " - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Forces such as monoculture of crops, hybridization, and intense fertilization have resulted in devitalized grains, fruits, and vegetables that often look large, glossy, and healthy, but are in reality only a few steps above junk food. Another reason that some experts are also critical of people taking relatively large amounts of supplements is because of the fact that excessive amounts of some supplements may harm health. This is a reasonable concern, but it is very limited in scope. Vitamin A and vitamin D can be toxic if taken in extremely high amounts, but illness due to this is very rare." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Thanks to the introduction of American junk food, younger generations abroad and those who have moved to the United States and don't follow their traditional diets see an incidence of cardiovascular disease catching up to our level. The Mediterranean and Japanese people have some of the longest life expectancies in the world. When you examine their respective diets, the reason is apparent." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"By overeating or by eating junk food, you could act out without throwing a temper tantrum, without posing a direct 109 challenge, without putting yourself in the line of fire. Although you were controlled by your parents, you learned how to counterpunch, which at least gave you some feeling of powerfulness. Kids naturally look for some avenue by which they can assert their power, because they have so few options. As a kid, you had no freedom, no real voice in what happened to you. Learning to say "no" in the terrible two's is a developmental milestone of individuality and autonomy." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.) "Darlene felt abandoned and comforted herself with junk food. By age six, she had already started putting on weight. Now she's twenty-four years old, and Darlene has a boyfriend who recently suggested to her that she lose weight so that they can be more active together. Darlene reacted by eating herself sick at the Marriott buffet the next morning. Darlene's rebellious self didn't want to be judged because of her weight. Instead, it demanded unconditional love no matter how she looked or what problems her weight caused—the sort of love she had missed as a child." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.) "Someone in your household cooks too much or brings junk food home, or tempts you to go out to eat too often, and you end up paying the price. Blaming your friends and loved ones now is just a variation on the "blame the family" game. Instead of placing blame, why not consider what role you play in making food choices at home? In order to move forward, you have to shed the victim role, even if it fits you as comfortably as an old pair of sweatpants. Instead of wallowing in blame and regret, why not focus on what you have working for you now?" - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.) "Do you think that desire should be enough to control your portions, or avoid junk food, or practice any of those simple habits? It should be, but it's not. It's not enough because you're struggling with emotional eating. Trying to fully practice these habits is like trying to go to work with a temperature of 101. You might really want to make it so you don't have to use a sick day; you may even get through the door, but you won't last long. And what happens if you can't practice these habits? Simple: you gain weight, can't lose weight, or struggle to maintain your weight." - Roger Gould, Shrink Yourself: Break Free from Emotional Eating Forever (Get the book.)

"When their health is not at its optimum because of a steady diet of junk food or lack of exercise, their weakened impulse control also can't handle the demands of interactions in the lunchroom, on the playing field, and outside school. Some children with ADD/ADHD or similar attention deficits manage to scrape through the first three elementary school grades, but they run into trouble in the fourth grade. Most schools increase academic demands and give kids more responsibility for keeping track of schoolwork. Social and athletic demands increase, too." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"American "junk food diet" that is often deficient in essential vitamins like vitamin C to "causing more than an epidemic of obesity, heart disease and diabetes. It could be giving millions of people cancer, too." Dr. Ames said overfed Americans may be fat, but they are not getting the proper nutrition—and they may pay for their bad eating habits with cancer. He noted that 15 percent of the population is estimated to be deficient in vitamin C, as well as in other vitamins. Poor diet could damage cells in much the same way radiation does, he added. " - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"At the very least, make sure the schools are providing alternatives to junk food, and encourage the administration not to sell your children candy, soda, and fatty snacks. Whenever you can, send your children off to school with a packed lunch. This way, you can still regulate the food that goes into your child's body when you're not around. Fresh organic produce—especially bananas, carrots, and grapes—is easy to pack and extremely portable. Sandwiches with organic, plant-based ingredients on whole-grain bread are also a hassle-free, healthy choice." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Don't eat processed and junk food that has artificial ingredients like partially hydrogenated oils ("trans" fat). Trans fat is artificially produced oil that is widely used in restaurants and in the production of processed foods. It is present in many potato and corn chips, crackers, doughnuts, french fries, and other processed foods. It has been likened to putting sand into the gears of a watch; it will slowly wear your body out over time." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Not only did they steadily increase their visits to the gym, they reported that they smoked less, drank less caffeine and alcohol, ate more healthy food and less junk food, curbed impulse spending and overspending, and lost their tempers less often. They procrastinated less and kept more appointments. And, they didn't leave the dishes in the sink—at least not as often. The researchers characterized self-regulation as a resource that can be depleted but also recharged like a muscle. Essentially, the more you use this faculty, the stronger it gets." - John J. Ratey, MD, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain (Get the book.)

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