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Are Sunglasses Paleo? 52

Klara Celebrates Her First Birthday! 26

Should We Add Sugar to Everything Kids Eat? 20

What the Food Industry Didn’t Want to See 26

A diet book for kids (!) and what it can teach us 36

A Low Carb Diet Superior for Overweight Children Once Again 9

Gwyneth Paltrow’s Kids Eat Low-Carb, Dietitians Predictably Panic 28

Good News about Obesity in New York 7

Mothers Giving Birth to Generation XL 3

Kids Drinking Low-Fat Milk Gain More Weight – Again! 23

Kids Drinking Low-Fat Milk Gain More Weight – Again!

March 20 8:47 in Failed low fat diets, Food for kids, Weight Loss

Big mistake?

Is low-fat milk good for you and your family? Yet another study says no.

The start of the low-fat craze back in the 1980′s perfectly matches up with the start of the obesity epidemic. A coincidence? Probably not.

Low-fat products usually contain more sugar and more starches. If not you’ll probably end up eating more carbs anyway as you’ll be hungrier. This raises the levels of the fat-storing hormone insulin. Study after study prove that low-fat diets are worse for our weight than high-fat low-carb diets. The same is true for kids.

Not surprisingly, a recent Swedish study showed that people using low-fat dairy products end up gaining more weight. Now a new American study shows the same thing. Kids drinking low-fat milk are not only more often obese, they also tend to keep gaining more weight than kids drinking full-fat milk:

LA Times: Low-fat milk doesn’t help toddlers’ weight, study says

When will the disastrous low-fat craze end? How many more kids are going to get obese for no good reason?

What do you think?

Gwyneth Paltrow’s Kids Eat Low-Carb, Dietitians Predictably Panic

March 14 10:18 in Food for kids, Myths about LCHF

Gwyneth Paltrow says that her kids are on a low-carb diet – no bread, pasta or rice – as she thinks that is good for them. Predictably a few old-school dietitians immediately panicked.

The kids risk “nutrient deficiencies” warns one dietitian and another says that they “won’t be able to think straight as their brain won’t be functioning”. There is no end to the hysteria or the old myths that are dusted off. It’s even noted that Paltrow’s kids are thin (!) as if that must be bad. Apparently overweight kids are so common today that people are worried when they see a child without weight issues.

Fortunately more and more people are seeing through the nonsense. Nobody needs bread or pasta as long as they eat real food until satisfied (when on low carb this means more fat). And no, the brain does not quit working. It has never happened in reality, only in some book that dietitians are taught to memorize in school.

Here’s a great article about the Paltrow debate:

Guardian.co.uk: Why Gwyneth Paltrow’s no-carb diet for children makes perfect sense

Earlier about food for kids

Should We Add Sugar to Everything Kids Eat?

February 20 12:01 in Addiction, Food for kids, Sugar/fructose

Veggies

How do you get kids to eat more vegetables? Reports show that kids tend not to enjoy eating veggies at school lunches, often discarding them uneaten.

This is not a joke: At the recent meeting of the American Society for the Advancement of Science a radical new method was discussed. Researchers have found that putting sugar on top of the veggies makes kids like them more:

In the community, 2 of 3 preschoolers preferred vegetables lightly misted with small amounts of sweetener to plain vegetables. Serving lightly sweetened vegetables weekly across 4 weeks was associated with increases in vegetable intake compared with little change for preschoolers served plain vegetables.

Great. So now that kids are already addicted to sweet junk food we’re going to give up and put sugar in everything they eat?

Crazy times.

There’s another, better, solution. My 17 months-old daughter loves veggies like broccoli and carrots, she can’t get enough of them. Why? Her veggies are fried in butter. A healthy choice: Butter is better.

A Low Carb Diet Superior for Overweight Children Once Again

February 8 17:30 in Food for kids, Weight loss studies

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Do you want to lose weight? Study after study shows that if you do, you should avoid sugar and starch. This is also true for children and youth. A new study showed that children (on average 13 years old) lost more weight on a strict low carbohydrate diet, despite eating until satisfied!

Children who instead received low fat and low calorie dietary advice had more difficulty losing weight, despite going hungry. Nor did their health markers improve in comparison.

At least two studies have previously demonstrated better weight for overweight children and youth who were given advice on a strict low carbohydrate diet [1 2]. And altogether there are now at least 18 studies of highest standard (RCT) clearly demonstrating a better weight on a low carbohydrate diet compared to “eat less and run more”. The latter advice has to my knowledge never won in any comparative study. Nor has anybody been able to show me such a study.

This means 18-0 in favor of a low carbohydrate diet.

A low carbohydrate diet is dieting for smart people who enjoy life (and who exercise for the purpose of being fit and feeling well). Eating pasta daily, counting calories and having to exercise like an elite athlete to get slim is a good option for masochists.

What the Food Industry Didn’t Want to See

December 12 2012 21:15 in Food for kids, Industrial food-like products, Sugar/fructose

So the food industry invited a doctor to give a talk at an industry breakfast. But three days before the talk, with his flights and hotels booked, they cancelled his talk. Why?

Well, I guess they suddenly realized that they had invited the wrong person. Dr Yoni Freedhoff is no fan of the food industry. Having already prepared his 13 minutes talk he recorded it and uploaded it to YouTube two days ago. Number of views so far: 160 000.

It’s a great talk. See it. Share it.

Klara Celebrates Her First Birthday!

September 8 2012 20:27 in About Diet Doctor, Food for kids

Yesterday our charming Klara had her first birthday and celebrated in her new ball pool, slightly bruised from having climbed everything and from learning to walk a bit.

A lot of people ask me what she eats. The simple answer is that she sits at the kitchen table with us and eats the same food. However she gets a bit more slow carbs (e.g. more fruit and some more root vegetables, potatoes and berries). A very liberal LCHF diet. Also she still breast feeds once in a while.

Without much planning the entire year has passed without a single can of baby food, or any of the grain-based gruel or porridge that are popular in Sweden. In fact she has hardly eaten anything with flour in it.

In Sweden we get insistent advice to feed babies industrial porridge with added iron. We ignored that, seemingly without any negative effects. Klara gets her iron from real food like meat and vegetables. Personally I wonder if porridge with added iron could result in constipation. That is the most common side effect of iron supplementation to adults.

So how is Klara developing after a low carb pregnancy and one year without processed sugar and almost completely without grains? Just fine. She just learned to walk and she’s been talking a bit since she was 8-9 months old. Now she says quite a few words. She’s way above average in both weight and height. And she’s full of energy and almost always happy (something that’s frequently commented on by other parents).

Yes, I’m a proud dad.

There was no cake baked on flour at her first birthday. But Klara seemed completely satisfied with a fruit salad and real whipped cream.

What do you think about a liberal LCHF diet for kids?

PS: The only supplement she gets apart from good food is vitamin D, every single day. About twice the recommended dose, 800 – 1000 units per day.

PS2: Here are recent reports on more kids raised by low-carbing doctors: Jay Wortman’s two kids and Peter Attia’s daughter.

Mothers Giving Birth to Generation XL

May 17 2012 21:29 in Food for kids, The Obesity Epidemic

Here’s part five of the marvelous UCTV-series “The Skinny on Obesity”. This seven minute episode is about how mothers influence the future weight of their children even before they are born. High insulin levels in pregnant moms leads to bigger babies. This may have repercussions as the baby grows up, increasing the risk of obesity and disease.

The first signs of the coming disaster may already be apparent in the US. For the first time average lifespans are starting to decrease.

Earlier parts of the series (highly recommended)

Are Sunglasses Paleo?

May 2 2012 10:57 in About Diet Doctor, Food for kids

Klara and dad

We try to give seven-month-old Klara a nice Paleo-inspired start in life. Good quality real food, relatively low in carbs, no grains, spending most of her time with bare feet and so on. But I do think she enjoys her new sunglasses.

Good News about Obesity in New York

December 17 2011 9:08 in Food for kids, The Obesity Epidemic

This is encouraging news. Childhood obesity rates in America have been rising every year for a long time. Now that trend seems to have changed in one place. Continue Reading →

Kids removed from family because of obesity

September 19 2011 16:00 in Food for kids, Weight Loss

Another horrible effect of the out-of-control obesity epidemic in Britain:

Parents of seven told: Your children are too fat, so you will never see them again

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