Eating is Learning

Food is information about the world in the form of colors, tastes, and textures, as well as nutrients that we break down and incorporate into our body. Eating is directly linked to the health of our neurologic and immune systems. In children, the digestive system therefore plays a major role in processing information, essential for learning.

Because children are in an extremely active state of growth and development, it should be no surprise that the over-processed, overstimulating fast foods we eat in our fast-paced world are contributing to many of the chronic health problems such as autoimmune disorders, allergies, Autism, and ADHD that we see at high rates today.

What, Where, When, How and Why We Eat

We can recover from many chronic health problems by making simple changes in our diet.

It’s not just what we eat, but how much we eat, where we eat and when we eat that define the whole picture of healthy eating.  In my practice, I base my approach on Chinese medicine in order to map out specific ways to create a more balanced approach to nutrition that will support a child’s individual adaptive style.

The ancient Chinese recognized that each food has its own thermo-energetic properties that can be used to treat health problems.  In treating children, the Chinese medicine classics emphasize that diet, not medications and prescriptions, should always be considered the first line of therapeutics.