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The first food that almost all children crave is their mother's milk. They latch on to the breast and only let go to cry and to sleep. It's the
mother's job to wean them and introduce other foods such as regular milk, cereal, solids and then a myriad of other things that will
assist in growth and development.


It's frightening to watch newscasts of children suffering from starvation in regions of Ethiopia and other Third World countries, while here
in the United States we are throwing away the contents of "Happy Meals" just to collect the toy or game piece offered with it.

There is a definite correlation between children and food. One of the best and most well known is "bribing" children to perform specific

tasks. For example, a father will offer a candy bar to his son if he will make his bed and clean up his room. Or, a mother will offer an
extra slice of cake if her daughter will eat her dreaded vegetables or wash and dry the dishes. Unfortunately, both of these examples
involve using food as a reward, rather than performing the task because it's the right thing to do.

Some of the factors that frequently cause us to think about children and food are the following:


Allergies - such as peanuts, milk, chocolate, etc.
Safety - Halloween "treats," eColi warnings
Education about food - the food "Pyramid," high carbohydrates, calories, food-related diseases


The need to build food associations for our children that are positive and healthful has reached crisis point. Even the government has
created an initiative, rebuilding the old food pyramid to help us rearrange our thinking in regard to the definition of food that is "good for
you". With the growing issues of disease related to weight gain, it is important now more than ever to focus on creating a diet for

children that will protect them, develop their immune system, and give them a healthy relationship with food that they will take with them
for the rest of their lives.

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