by Judy Katz

Health Expert and Author Nancy Deville urges parents to pay attention to the disturbing results and stop feeding their children factory-produced food products.

Santa Monica, CA (Vocus/PRWEB) January 27, 2011

“Would you continue to lounge on your deck chair reading a medical journal while children were being tossed overboard into shark infested waters?” asks real food advocate Nancy Deville, author of seven books in the health genre, including her most recent, Death By Supermarket: The Fattening, Dumbing Down and Poisoning of America (Greenleaf Book Group Press, March 2011).

Deville was responding to two recent experiments conducted by researchers at the University of Oregon, in which preschoolers ages 3 to 5 demonstrated their preference for food heavy on salt, sugar and fat, and also demonstrated an ability, at such young ages, to equate these taste preferences to brand-name fast-food and soda products.

The study also showed that a child’s taste preferences begin at home and that youngsters learn quickly which brands deliver the goods: foods heavily laced with salt, sugar and fat. “This study is alarming and worthy of immediate attention,” Deville declared. These are shocking findings that prove we are in a state of emergency. I am appalled that people do not take this seriously and view it as a wakeup call.”

T. Bettina Cornwell, a professor of marketing in the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business, agrees. “In a world where salt, sugar and fat have been repeatedly linked to obesity, waiting for children to begin school to learn how to make wiser food choices is a poor decision,” Professor Cornwell declared, noting that children are even adding salty, sugary or fatty condiments — and with them calories – to foods they eat, in order to match their skewed taste preferences.

As an outspoken “real food” advocate and health writer, Deville has long argued that parents need to get real about the problem and equally real about finding solutions. “These are human beings we are talking about,” she declares. “Infants, toddlers, kids, teenagers who are going to grow up morbidly obese, enslaved to cravings and binging, tethered to the medical system, depressed and unhappy; many of whom will also die young from associated diseases that result from eating these kinds of non-foods”

Back to Professor Cromwell: “Our findings present a public policy message,” she notes. “If we want to pursue intervention, we probably need to start earlier.” Parents,” she adds, “need to seriously consider the types of foods they expose their young children to, at home and in restaurants. Repeated exposure builds taste preferences.”

Children Addicted to Factory Food Products
Tastes for food are established as early as three years of age, according to experts. “That explains why Indian babies can munch on chili peppers that would send us to the E.R., why German children will eat liver, why Finnish children can enjoy stinky dried fish and why French children (thankfully) eat green vegetables like candy,” says Deville. “In the US, our children are increasingly addicted to factory food, as this study clearly shows. This addiction is not only bad for a child’s growing body, it also wrecks havoc on young brains. The brain is made up of 40 percent amino acids (protein) and 60 percent fat/cholesterol. Children need organic meat, fish, poultry, eggs, butter, whole organic milk, and coconut oil to develop healthy brains that have been fed properly and flooded with healthy neurotransmitters. A child with a healthy, happy brain is destined for a happy life, in every way: mind, body, and spirit,” Deville maintains.

“We need to be much stronger in our messages to parents,” she continues. “And parents themselves must stop making excuses for the factory food they feed their children. Much of what children are given is pure garbage—food many of us wouldn’t feed our dogs. Children are precious and innocent—let’s please give them a chance at a happy life.”

“When you feed your kids factory-produced food,” she exhorts parents, “you’re issuing them a sentence of overweight/obesity, depression, ill health, and early death. Is that really what you were thinking when you held your precious infant, who looks up at you with so much trust? Besides, getting is healthy is such a fun ride, why not take your kids along with you?”

For more information on Nancy Deville’s philosophy of healthy eating and her sage advice to parents, log on to http://www.nancydeville.com. You can also find Nancy on Twitter and Facebook.

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