He or she might be one of 17 in all children in the U.S. who suffers from a food alergy. Check out this top ten list for keeping kids toxin free, at least as possible, from processed foods. Robyn O'Bryan, author, super mom, blogger and now a tireless suporter of protecting kids from big farms and big pharma is on the circiut appearing everywhere from CNN to People to right here.
10 Steps You Can Take to Protect Your Family:
- Reduce your family's exposure to processed foods
- Eat food with ingredients that your grandmother would have used
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Purchase organic eggs, as they are not from chickens fed corn engineered to produce its own insecticides
- Cook with olive oil instead of butter, margarine or vegetable oil
- Avoid conventional soy and corn products (vegetable oil, high fructose corn syrup) since most are genetically engineered
- Look for meat and poultry that not injected with antibiotics and additional hormones
- As recommended by the British Dietetic Association, avoid exposing infants under the age of 12 months to conventional soy
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Consume organic foods for the first 12 weeks of pregnancy in order to reduce your exposure to pesticides (recently linked to autism and gestational diabetes)
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Look for "rBGH-free" milk. rBGH (recombinant bovine growth hormone) is a genetically engineered, synthetic chemical hormone that is not allowed in milk in most developed countries given its link to breast and prostate cancers
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When discussing vaccines with your child's pediatrician, especially vaccines grown in eggs, request the informational leaflets that accompany the vaccines as they discuss autoimmune conditions like food allergies in detail
