Dr. William Sears, one of the country’s most recognized pediatricians, offers the following tips to get your family more healthy by eating a healthier diet.


Step One: Shape young tastes.

Children who eat less junk food aren’t sick as often and didn’t have as many school or attention problems. These kids also make wiser food choices.

Step Two: Feed your family the right carbohydrates.

At least 50% of your diet should be in the form of healthy carbs – fruits, vegetables, legumes, and whole grains. Bad carbs come from the factory – processed foods. The worst carbs come from sweetened beverages – soda and most juices.

Step Three: Feed your family the right fats.

The best fats are found in seafood, especially wild salmon; healthy oils, flax oil and olive oil; nuts and nut butters; and seeds, such as sunflower and sesame seeds, and in avocados.

Step Four: Feed your family grow foods.

Grow foods are whole foods: fruits, vegetables, legumes, whole grains, nuts, yogurt, eggs, healthy oils. All of these foods come from nature, not from the factory.

Step Five: Raise a grazer.

Eating small, frequent “mini-meals” instead of three larger meals tends to result in putting on less extra body fat.

Step Six: Start the day off with a brainy breakfast.

Breakfast “sets the nutritional tone for the day.” Because the brain cannot store energy, sending your child to school without a healthy breakfast is like driving your car to work with an empty fuel tank. Kids who eat a healthy breakfast get better grades and have fewer behavior problems.

Step Seven: Feed your family lots of fruits and vegetables.

Fruits and veggies have the right carbs, the right fats, fiber, and protein. Dr. Sears thinks of fruits and vegetables as “nature’s pharmacy,” because they contain phytonutients that help make us healthier. It is very important to eat a variety of fruits and vegetables that contain a wide variety of phytonutrients.

Step Eight: Take your children to the supermarket.

Make a family outing out of shopping and making healthy food choices together.

Step Nine: Add Juice Plus+ to the family diet.

Because of the quantity and quality of research, Dr. Sears recommends that all his patients take a product called Juice Plus+. Juice Plus+ is the nutritional essence of 17 fruits and vegetables in a capsule or in a gummie form. Dr. Sears noticed that frequently sick kids with bad diets who took Juice Plus+ not only were sick less, but also started to eat more fruits and vegetables.

You can learn more about Dr. Sears’ Nine Simple Steps to a Healthier Family Diet on his CD or DVD of the same name.

Please contact Dr. Derek Van Benthuysen, 732-749-3145, if you have any question or would like a free copy of Dr. Sears’ CD or DVD.

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