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Summary: It's important to combine foods properly. Learn about children's nutrition, food allergies, and getting kids to eat healthy in this free video.
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Lisa La Barr Lisa La Barr is AFPA certified, a WAPF member, and a personal nutrition and wellness expert in Beverly Hills. She has almost 10 years of health care experienc... read more
Hi, this is Lisa La Barr for Expert Village. We're going to talk about alleviating those food allergies in your child, so that they can have proper healthy nutrition and healthy digestion. Some of the things that you want to do, the first one is, would be, proper food combining. It's an old technique and it's been around, actually Ira Batta uses it quite often, and this sometimes can really help with your foods, your children's food allergies. Some of the good food combining would be combining your starches, like your flour with vegetables. Obviously, not necessarily this real big broccoli head, but you get the idea. If you combine those two, without the meat and the other things, that sometimes will help alleviate their food allergies. Another thing is milk. This should generally be drunk by itself without any other foods around it. For that, it helps to isolate the food allergy and this way if they have any symptoms, you can get really down to what's really happening and what the food it is that's having a problem. Another thing is, is sprouting. Sprouting helps with like, you can sprout nuts, like this. You can sprout seeds; you can sprout the flour that this came from. You can sprout all the different types of vegetables and this actually helps with making a grain or a peanut into more like a vegetable, which is actually less allergenic, in making sure that your child is much more healthy and gets also a lot more nutrients without the food allergy problem. Another thing is interval. I call the interval allergic food kind of thing. You basically introduce different foods, and not the same one. Maybe have wheat once every three or four days or once a week. Then you have nuts, like peanuts, since that's a big allergenic food, you know what I?m saying, maybe once a week also. And then you try eggs only once a week, and then maybe milk once a week. These are the higher allergenic foods, so that's always a good thing to do too.