Monday, November 9, 2009

Brain Food-- from Maya

Maya sent along this essay by Alan Green as a follow up to some of what we learned from the Detox Your Toybox Panel...
Kids' brains are high-performance engines, and if we want them to do their best in school, we need to provide them with clean, high-quality fuel. For growing children this means a balanced diet of delicious whole foods, grown in a nutrition-enhancing way without toxic pesticides, and prepared in an appealing manner that also preserves nutrients. Solid science has shown that food affects kids' memory, attention, and cognitive skills. Even whether or not they eat breakfast changes their test scores. What they eat, how their food is grown, and how their food is processed can all help their brains to operate at their very best. Let's give our kids the edge they deserve.
Has anyone made any concrete changes or have specific strategies that might help the rest of us detox without too much stress?