Our Future Depends Upon Our Children

In the 1995-6 Australian Health Summary (ABS) it was found that more than  70% of the Australian population experienced one or more long term illness conditions (i.e. conditions that have lasted, or are expected to last, six months or more).

The 0-4 year olds scored 31% increasing to 99% of people over 60 years of age. How then, can our Federal Government make the claim that Australians are among the healthiest people in the world? God help the rest of the world if this be true!

We can postulate the fate of these young future citizens as being a life-time ingestion of prescription medicines, many of which create a domino effect of increasing illness conditions through interfering in one way or another  with the individual's  cellular nutrition.

The health of every child is by and large determined at the moment of conception. That is proven by the example of Spina Bifida ( a neural tube defect) being prevented by the pregnant woman supplementing Folic Acid, preferably preconception. Roger J. Williams, the scientist who discovered and named Pantothenic Acid and who went on to study and name Folic Acid, stated in the mid-1940's that Folic Acid would prevent neural tube defects. However, modern medicine, not being nutrition-oriented and somewhat under the control of vested interest who are profit motivated (you cannot patent nutrients), did not act on this advice until about 1998. You cannot imagine the countless cleft palate, spina bifida and other neural tube defects that could have been prevented in that time-frame.

Let us examine the bifidobacterium pathway. When an infant is born, normally (intravaginally), the infant picks up numerous bacteria in the birth process, most of these whilst essential to normal gut function, uncontrolled, can and do create havoc both within the gut and outside the gut. A common example is Candida Albicans  which, in the female, invades the vagina and is commonly known as thrush.  There is one other bacteria among all of these which is the control. Bifidobacterium Infantis, the friendly Probiotic. Bifidobactrium in a healthy person comprises 90% of the gut bacteria. Now, if the infant is breast-fed for several months the bifidobacteria proliferate with the function of  improving digestion and immune status, manufacturing certain nutrients including, but not confined to:
 Biotin
 Choline
 Folic Acid
 Inositol
 Para Aminobenzoic Acid (PABA)
 Vitamin B2
 Vitamin B5
 Vitamin B6
 Vitamin K)

and importantly controlling the detrimental bacteria, which, if uncontrolled, proliferate and in time eat away at the mucosal lining of the gut with the consequence of a hyper-permeable gut lining "Leaky Gut". If an infant is born via caesarian section or  not breast fed there will not be enough friendly bacteria to control the unfriendly bacteria with consequent proliferation and penetration of any body tissue causing inflammation and/or pain. A common example might be infant eczema. Of course antibiotics, the most over-prescribed medication on  this planet, will destroy much of the friendly bacteria, especially acidophilus located in the small intestine. Interestingly, mothers of today do not have near the amount of bifidobacterium in the birth process that their grandmothers had a few decades ago. A recent Danish study could not find any bifidobacteriun in infants born in a Danish hospital.  Bifidobaceria thrive on what are called Fructooligosaccharides (FOS). Best sources of FOS are banana, onion, garlic and tomatoes.

Most infant and childrens allergic and/or minor infectious episodes respond to intensive probiotic treatment. Bifidobacterium and acidophilus are very potent antibacterial/virus agents to which infectious bacteria cannot become resistant, unlike all antibiotics.

See Bifidobacteria

This we call Applied Nutrition and it would be fair to say that Applied Nutrition would absolutely decimate the up to 33% of chronic illness conditions (ABS) affecting our children and escalating out of control today, aided and abetted by the mythical balanced diet and so called healthy food experts who foster packets of dried fruit and bottles of apple juice as part of a healthy diet, to say nothing of the 'healthy' breakfast of sugar rich cereal  contributing to the escalation of chronic illness and killer diseases in our society.  Federal and other so called health bodies must of course bear most of the responsibility for the health care organisations, which might best be described  as 'sickness organisations'.

Sugar is sugar is sugar. Fructose is fruit sugar converted eventually, like all sugars by the liver, to glucose. Dried fruit has 3 times the sugar content of the original fresh fruit. Concentrated apple juice is high in fructose as are most sweet fruits. Clinical Nutritionists (not the media-high-profile armchair nutritionists) are largely in agreement that fructose has no place in human nutrition. This is not to say that fruit is bad for you. Rather, let moderation apply. Examine what over-consumption of fruit sugars can do to our system.

Toxic Effects of Fructose: Excessive consumption of fructose has been proven to accelerate the aging process due to its accelerating the process of Cross-Linking in the body’s tissues. Cross-Linking is an oxidation reaction in which bonds form between endogenous carbohydrates, nucleic acids, proteins and lipids. These bonds may be between the same or different carbohydrates, proteins, nucleic acids or lipids, and are toxic because of the fact that the cross-linked molecule cannot assume the correct shape for proper functioning.

In the cardiovascular system the excessive consumption of fructose increases the risk of abnormal blood clotting and therefore increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases. It has also been demonstrated that excessive consumption of fructose may increase the risk of calcium oxalate, which is the principal element in kidney stones.  Because fructose is part of the raw material, which forms the synthesis of  endogenous cholesterol, too much fructose may increase the low density cholesterol levels.

Animal (mice) studies implicate fructose as a cancer causing agent. In view of the 200% increase in diabetes over the past twenty years or so, it is important to know that excessive consumption of fructose can cause Insulin Resistance, which is another name for diabetes. The same applies to any product made from and including white flour, white rice and sugar. See simple sugars

If you have a suffering child. If you are a suffering child. Talk with us about improving the quality of life no matter what the illness condition may be.

It has been the writer's experience that the most effective medicines we have for childhood illness, and for that matter as baseline therapy for most adult illness, are the probiotics especially Bifidobacterium and Acidophilus strain NCM.  Many infant/children's illness can be related to how they were born and how long breast-fed, both of which determine to some extent the quality and quantity of gut bacteria and consequently the integrity of the mucosal lining of the gut. Yes, children can have a "Leaky Gut".

Metagenics Ultra Flora caps contain 12.5 billion of each of the above strains of friendly bacteria and are the most potent natural antibiotics and immune status enhancers.

Introduce your child to the Insulin Zone diet as early as possible and both of you will reap the rewards. Because we cannot obtain all of the nutrients we need on a daily basis from store-purchased foods it is mandatory in the interests of good health to supplement your children with a good multivitamin/mineral formula each day.

The Institutes policy includes no fee for children's consultations including the Health Assessment Comprehensive.

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