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Chefsters creates happy and healthy children. It is a show with style and substance.

Creating  Healthy Children

Creating healthy children makes life simple. It is a challenge to raise content, healthy, and happy children. All parents are optimistic about that prospect, until they stall. It is a tough job that begins in the home and then is shared by the schools.

The values we teach our children must include solid nutritional principles. This is both informational and transformative, and will guide your child in the future.

You can provide them with a disease-free future.

Their emotional state will also depend on their nutritional status. How many parents are tearing out their hair trying to get their children to behave? Most don’t realize that their child’s nutritional status affects their behavior.

Parents Partner

Chefsters is a parents partner in providing the information that this coming generation needs more than ever. Parents have for generations tried to get children to eat healthy.

Chefsters offers hands on experience for children of all ages. The Chefsters tapes and CD’s gives learning tips on how to improve diet and lifestyle is for youngsters, parents, future parents, teachers, and social workers.

Rather than medicating your child, it important to realize that asthma, ear infections, allergies, learning, attention and hyperactivity are food related.

Chefsters is your perfect partner in helping your children recognize healthy food. Chefsters will dramatically capture their attention, and teach them to be smart consumers.

New Developments

The new developments in the last few decades, has presented a challenge to America. We live in a world of faux food that offer sensory pleasures. Biologically most of the innovative food supply doesn’t support our tissues, organs, or glands.

There isn’t a hands on experience when preparing any of the packaged foods. Of course, if you considering opening a package and eating the contents a culinary experience than you are nutritionally challenged and health deprived. 

Great taste and great health aren’t a formulation away. Yet, our children recognize a cereal box before they know the names of fruits and vegetables.

Their future will change dramatically, when they recognize, understand, and know how to prepare what will appear on their dinner plate. Thanks, to the Chefsters team, this can be in their future.

Vaccine refusal-aware parents are growing in numbers. This is a the real story that isn’t being reported in the news.

Aware Parents

Today’s parents are aware that their children are becoming profitable pin cushions. In a USA Today story they documented an increasing number of parents who refused or delayed a vaccine for their child. The article cited a CDC study that showed in 2003 only 22 percent of parents refused or delayed a vaccine for their child, whereas in 2008 this number soared to 39 percent. This is nearly double.

This is a fact that is not published for a few reasons. The biggest one is this isn’t good publicity for the vaccine manufacturers. The herd mentality could take hold; if a good size group of parents refuse or delay vaccination. The maybe I should think about this attitude could take hold. Questions would arise and parents would start educating themselves. Not a good scenario for the pharmaceutical giants.

The story that is circulating is that “parents in 2008 had more opportunities to delay shots than they had five years earlier’ because three new vaccines have been introduced. What parents are questioning is the number of shots on the vaccine schedule, and the manner they are given.

The biggest concern is that these new and newer shots have no safety record. There is no long term, large-scale, double-bind, placebo studies. In 20 years we may have the answer, by seeing our children either have improved immunity, or life altering side effects.

What parent wants their child to be a guinea pig for the pharmaceutical company’s bottom line? That is the problem, nothing more or less. Of course you can add in that most of the conditions vaccinated for don’t apply as a danger for the vast majority of babies. A new attitude is hopefully sweeping the country.

This is a reminder that many parents are taking a different approach to health.

Children’s health in America is changing. The sustained energy that seems to last the whole day is part of childhood. We equate childhood with physical performance and vitality.

CHRONIC HEALTH CONDITIONS

The rate of chronic health conditions among children in America has increased from 12.8% in 1994 to 26.6% in 2006, for conditions such as obesity, asthma and behavior/learning problems, according to a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

SUGAR

A day filled with sugar, corn syrup, dextrose, fructose, maltodextin, and other odd sweeteners will change the playing field. Toxic artificial colors and sweeteners combine to take the octane out of childhood.

EPIGENETICS

The study of epigenetics tells a story. The not so good news is that there is sufficient evidence that adult lifestyle can change the health of their future children. The same bad behaviors that can shorten your life can predispose your offspring to the same health risks. This can happen before they are conceived.

DNA

Children’s health is a measure of your history. Taking extra measures to protect your health helps ensure healthy offspring. The message is loud and clear everyday choices affect future generations.

Your DNA may not be your destiny, but your health habits may be the foundation of your child’s future.

GENES

In a remote area of northern Sweden a tiny population revealed how genes work.

In a place called Norrbotten, in the 19^th century, peoples lives depended on the harvest. There were years in the 1800’s where there was total crop failure and famine. In other years in the same time period when crops were abundant and people were able to gorge themselves for months.

In the 1980’s, Dr Lars Olov Bygren, a preventive-health specialist who is at the prestigious Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, wondered what long term effects the feast and famine years might have had on children growing up in Norrbotten in the 19^th century. On them, on their offspring including their grandkids as well.

He took random sample of 99 individuals born in the Overkalix parish of Norrbotten in 1905 and used historical records to trace their parents and grandparents back to birth. By analyzing meticulous agricultural records, Byren and two colleagues determined how much food had been available to the parents and grandparents when they were young.

Bygren’s research showed that in Overkalix, boys who enjoyed those rare overabundant winters-kids who went from normal eating to gluttony in a single season –produced sons and grandsons who lived shorter lives. Bygren and his team controlled for certain socioeconomic variations, the difference in longevity was an astonishing 32 years. They also found significant drops in lifespan along the female line. This means the daughters and granddaughters of girls who went from a normal to a gluttonous diet also lived shorter lives.

Bygren showed that conditions in the womb affected the offspring’s health into adulthood. In 1986 Lancer published the first of two papers showing that if pregnant women ate poorly, her child would be at a significantly higher risk for cardiovascular disease

THE ANSWER

Bygren and other scientists have historical evidence that suggests powerful environmental conditions can leave an imprint on the genetic material in eggs and sperm. These genetic imprints can short-circuit evolution and pass along new traits in a single generation.

Patterns of how childhood chronic conditions have changed over time can be found in our lifestyles. The answer to obesity, asthma, behavior/learning problems, and metabolic syndrome has been found.