Dr. Elizabeth Taylor discusses how nutrition and diet can impact health and behavior. She explains that food should be used as medicine and outlines the importance of choosing nutrient-dense, unprocessed foods over empty calories. Dr. Taylor describes how specific nutrients from protein, fats, and carbohydrates can affect the body and provides tips for improving family diets, such as buying organic, avoiding fast food, and making healthy options available.

1. Dr. Elizabeth (Betsy) TaylorChanging lives through food

2. What, Why, How, Who?

3. Our food should be our medicine Our medicine should be our foodHIPPOCRATES

4. Physiology: the science that deals with living things and the ways in which their parts & organs workChemistry: the science in which substances are examined to find out what they are made of, how they act under various conditions, and how they are combined or separated to form other substances.Diet: what you eat and drinkNutrition: how your body uses your ‘diet’ to live and growCalorie: a unit for measuring the energy that food suppliesterminology

5. Fat: 1 gram = 9 calories Protein: 1 gram = 4 calories Carbohydrates: 1 gram = 4 caloriesCalorie dense – Coke = 20 oz. 240 calories65 grams of sugars = 16.25 tsp. of sugar!No vitamins, minerals, fiber,fats, or proteins are providedby sugar = empty caloriesCalories

6. Releases chemicals which mimic pain killers and stimulants leading to craving, binging, and withdrawal.Sugar’s hidden weapon

7. Excitotoxin Kills brain cells See handout for lists of namesSee handout for side effectsTHIS IS POISON – DO NOT USE!Aspartame / artificial sweeteners

8. Food fulfills three basic needs: Provide energySupport new tissue growth and repairHelp regulate metabolismNutrients: - components of foodsCarbohydratesFatsProteinsVitaminsMineralsWaterNutrient-dense foods have a high nutrient/calorie ratio. Nutrient-dense foods are the opposite of empty-calorie foods Nutrition

9. Tools to get the job done:Robbing Peter topaypaul

10. What you feed your kids (and you) does matter.The function of the body depends on the tools you give it to do the jobPrejudiced taste buds Cravings, wants, vs. needs Food affects the expression of health, healing, and behaviorwhy

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12. Carbohydrate intake – results Too much or Too littleResistanceFat storageBlood sugar ups and downs ----blood sugar drop => increased hunger => increased stress => increased adrenaline => hyperactive, impulsive, aggressive, or angryInsulin

13. why

14. Proteins: Build, repair, and maintainPerks up the brain

15. A feel-good food

16. Fill-up food

17. Revs up your metabolism (uses more calories to digest protein)Steadies blood sugarwhy

18. Dr. Sears says:Breastfeed as often and for as long as possibleServe fresh or frozen baby and toddler foodGraze on grow foodsAvoid the “Terrible Threes” – HFCS, Trans fats, DyesServe nutrient-dense foodsModel healthy eating habitsShape, don’t control [90/10]Surround your child with nutritious foodsExpose your child to a variety of new foodsEnjoy happy meals – NOT McDonald’s why

19. Do healthy kids get sick?Here’s an important question

20. Feed your kids grow food:Nutrient denseFill-up foodBalance blood sugar levelsFree of unhealthy ingredients and artificial additivesIf it has a label with a list of ingredients, you probably shouldn’t eat it.Raise a grazer, not a gorger – 3 meals a day ??????????????How

21. Use proteins and fats for energyUse fruits and vegetables for nutritionHow

22. Keep it out of the houseMonitor intake at other locationsKnow the pitfalls:Artificial sweetenersHFCSTrans fatsHydrogenated oilsProcessedPesticidesGenetically modified Color additives / dyesServing size – does it give too much sugar or too little nutrition?how

23. Begin before pregnancy – fix yourself firstBegin where you are now – fix your family’s bad habitsBuy and eat organic, fresh, realShun / banish fast food and the drive thruMake your own ‘fast foods’Use color, shapes, taste tests (yes – you have to try new stuff too)Learn about superfoods, do your homework, be preparedTeam up with a Health Advocatehow

24. howwww.foodnews.orgList of the top 12 pesticide laden fruits and vegetables --- buy these organicList of the 15 lowest in pesticides fruits and vegetables ----- you can buy non-organic***********************************************But it costs too much to eat healthy!!!!!!!!!!!!Do you really want me to go there? Tips: don’t buy empty calories, buy fill-up food, drop fast foods costs, stay healthier (save $$ on illnesses), etc.

25. A short review of the new book by Kelly Dorfman, MS, LNDWhat’s Eating Your Child?

26. Food and Childhood Ailments

27. “Why treat your child with drugs when you can cure your child with food?”OTCProzacRitalinAntibioticsLaxativesDesignerdrugs???

28. Anxiety Mood swingsEar Infections AllergiesStomach achesPicky eating TantrumsRashesADHD Speech delayReflux Developmental DelaysConstipationGrowth Sensory ProcessingInsomnia and Moretopics

29. Presence of an irritantSomething missingGlutenCaseinPesticideGMO / GE************VitaminMineralFatsProteinWater

30. “Grounded in cutting-edge science and filled with case studies that read like medical mysteries, What’s Eating Your Child? reveals the hidden connections between nutrition and chronic childhood ailments, and gives parents the simple, straightforward solutions they need to help their children thrive.”Importance of zinc

31. Problems caused by gluten and casein intolerance

32. Sleep disorders and melatonin

33. Hyperactivity and magnesium

34. Anxiety and fish oilA must-read!!!!

35. Offering the tools-- to become nutrition detectives-- to recalibrate children’s diets through the E.A.T. program-- to get kids off drugs – antibiotics, laxatives, Prozac, Ritalin, etc.a guide to a natural state of well-being!

36. What’s Eating Your Child? – Kelly DorfmanThe Healthiest Kid in the Neighborhood – Drs. Sears – includes meal plans and tipsDeceptively Delicious – Jessica Seinfeld - cookbookWell Adjusted Babies – Dr. Jennifer FloreaniIf It’s Not Food Don’t Eat It – Kelly HayfordSuperfoods – David WolfeThe Primal Blueprint – Mark SissonDisclaimer……………………..Recommended reading

38. THEY DESERVE IT AND THEY DON’T KNOW WHY, WHAT, HOW –BUT NOW YOU DO –NO EXCUSES!