Mums Space Summit - 3 foods to eat, 3 foods to avoid

Honoured to be invited by Mums Space Summit to share with public on what food is good to support both brain and immunity, and 3 foods to avoid.

After the LIVE, received few requests from mummies what are they and where to get them. So i decided to blog here for all the mummies out there too.

Let me briefly intro who am i and what i do again :)

I am a food expert, I am also an educator and health solution provider.

I teach people how to eat healthily, how to eat a correct healthy breakfast, how to be a wise consumer by learn to read ingredients label, so we can avoid many nutrition misconception, so that our baby our kids can grow up healthily without medication or sickness, as parents we can stay away from chronic diseases and free from medication too.

I was a senior chemical engineer before embark into health educator career. I am trained in the science of Nutritional Immunology. The science of Nutritional Immunology is a science that study the link between our immune system and the food we eat. Today in order to have a healthy body, we need to have a healthy immune system becoz immune system is the best doctor in the world, and good news is we are all born with it J

How to have a healthy immune system, we need to nourish it with correct nutrient from wholesome plant food, so it can perform Defence, Cleanse and Repair functions accordingly.

Eg when our kids fever, it is not an illness, it is a sign that our immune system is fighting due to foreign invaders inside us, so don’t rush to give medication to our baby our kids, because it is unfavourable to our immune system, instead we should monitor and give the right weapon which is right food to their immune system to fight.

Another common misconception is coughing, do you know coughing at initial stage is not any illness too? Coughing meaning body is doing cleansing function. Coughing medication is just to suppress the cleansing process, and causing rubbish accumulated inside our baby our kids body without knowingly.

Afterall too much of medication, wrong food affect their brain functions too.

So as parents, equip ourselves with the right and updated health wisdom is important, so we can safeguard our loved ones health.

A)   1. How to support my child’s growing brain and body? (brain food & food that build immunity)

When come to how to support our child’s growing brain and body – I will share the 3 food to eat.

As I mentioned earlier, our immune system really loves wholesome plant food, as it gives our immune system the right nutrients.

So for 0 to 6 years old what to eat for better brain and immunity: 

1.       Ensure our baby our kids having sufficient of plant protein in their diet. 

Protein is important for babies, kids and even adults. Our body smallest unit is cells, cells forms tissues then tissues form organs and organs form body system.  Do you know our body regenerate in ave 200billions cells per day. So in short, to have a healthy brain and body, we need to ensure the regenerated cells are healthy by ensure we have given sufficient plant protein to our kids. Sufficient protein – to support normal growth and development, build muscles, build brain cells and etc.

For 0 to 6 months – the best protein source come from mummy’s breastmilk. It is the best beverage for our loved one, but provided mummy eating correctly too, as we are what we eat, what we eat we pass down via breastmilk too. After weaning off from breastmilk, the best and safest source for protein and calcium is in fact from wholesome Soy. There's a small percentage ppl allergic to soy, but if you are one of them, go for other alternative plant protein, ensure it is wholesome too.

For soy the protein content is 2 times of meat, 3 times than egg, 12 times than milk.

I know when I talk about Soy, there will be 2 groups of ppl. One group is Soy supporter. The other group is of course they have misconception on Soy. PM me, I can help on your misconception on SOY. 

2.       After our baby can start solid food, give plenty of Wholesome plant food – as our immune system really loves plant food. Because plant food can give our immune system other than the common vitamins and minerals we know like vitamin A B C.. it gives our immune system disease fight nutrients like antioxidants, phytochemicals and polysaccharides. Eg during fever time, give more plants which is high in antioxidants and phytochemicals eg cactus – to anti-inflammatory, speed up recovery. Mushrooms high in polysaccharides can destroy the virus or bacterial. More variety too eg different colour like red, orange, beige, purple, blue. Like red is good for our heart and eyes. FDA recommendation: Eat at least 400grams of vegetables per day to prevent cancer. 

3.       Brain food like soy, food grade ginseng eg American ginseng, jilin ginseng, lion mare mushrooms.

Our diet can affect neurogenesis – the process by which new neurons are formed in the brain.

(NGF and Myelin)

Your brain has protein called NGF, NGF protects your neurons and help them survive, remain healthy and grow.

It is crucial in developing the brain. NGF improves memory and learning by helping sheathes neurons in myelin. Myelin helps signals move quickly and efficiently between neurons. The better and faster these signals, the better your memory.

Both ginseng and lion mare mushrooms – helps in stimulating the production of NGF.

 

B)      2. Reports have shown that eating junk food leads to obesity and behavior issues, is that to do with the lack of “delayed gratification” or the chemistry as we ingest these foods?

Yes, There’s a research done by Australian scientist, on 23k pregnant women, on how their eating habits during pregnancy can affect the kids behavior till 5 years old. Research shows that mummy taking more junk food like ice cream, chips during the 9 months pregnancy / taking more high sugar, high fats food, the kids tends to misbehave, agitate, and throw tantrums as compare to pregnant mummies who ate more healthy food. 

This research once again telling us – we are what we eat. Both brain health & immunity of baby in fact started since they are inside our womb. So if any pregnant mummies are watching, do look after what you eat, or you can read here: https://nutritionalimmunologylifestyle.blogspot.com/2015/08/super-foods-for-pregnancy.html

So for 0 to 6 years old what to avoid:

1.       1. Animal products eg dairy, milk, ham, bacon, sausages, deep fried stuff.

Why? Because dairy is really not as healthy as what we thought, and it is not the best can safest source of protein and calcium. Cows milk is for calf, not for human babies. For 0 to 6months old, the best food is mummy’s breastmilk.

For highly processed food like ham, bacon, sausages – it is a comfort food for many kids, however there sodium nitrate in it, to make the pink colour, ya, it is unfortunately a cancer causing agent. There’s a research in Taiwan, by consuming ham, bacon, sausages up to twice a week, it increase 74% risk of getting leukemia, the figure is quite alarming.

 

2. Synthetic supplements like vit c candy, syrup, fish oil, probiotic and etc. 

Because synthetic supplements when overdose it has side effects and further burden our kids liver. For eg vit c if overdose, it can cause kidney stone. Can u imagine if the kid thought vit c candy is candy, and finish it up a bottle a day unknowingly? The toxins build up in kids body if overdosing the synthetic supplement do affect their brain too.

3.       Sugary drink like bubble tea, milk or chocolate shake, milo. 

Those are empty calories – causing weight gain, obesity, kids behavior become very hot temper and impatient too .

 Other msg to parents:

Be a wise parent, learn to read ingredients label. Ensure children have the right breakfast too, don’t skip breakfast, because there’s study shows that kids have breakfast have better memory and higher IQs.

 The Lancet study in April 2019, bad diets is worse than smoking – excessive junk food but deficiency of nutritious food.

After eating junk food, but must ensure body has disease fighting nutrients to offset the effect from animal products.

Health is factor of 4 – we called it nutritional immunology lifestyle.

Healthy diet – plenty of fruits and vegetables, water.

Get enough rest and sleep.

Stable emotion, find ways to reduce stress.

Exercise every day!

Parents, remember food is for fuel, choose the food you eat wisely :) 

Jinny

Excellence Lifestyle Coach

+65-92963562