Children and the Hallelujah Diet

Excerpts taken from Pregnancy, Children and the Hallelujah Diet  by Olin Idol, N.D., C.N.C., H and Hallelujah Kids by Julie Wandling

The most vital concern for today’s parent is the health and well-being of their child. For generations, parents relied on their instincts and the experience of their extended family for the care and rearing of their children. Now more than ever, parents are looking for practical, holistic solutions integrated with current research that speak directly to their pediatric questions and concerns.

“From the very first conception and birth, God’s plan for the procreation of the human race has been fulfilled through the God-given desire of a couple to marry, conceive, give birth, and rear healthy, godly children who would then do likewise.  Sadly, however, we find ourselves living in an age when many couples have found themselves unable to be fulfilled with the blessings of having children.  We find ourselves exposed to innumerable environmental hazards and toxins, mercury amalgam fillings in our teeth, damaging childhood vaccines, nutritionally deficient food sources, and a body so overloaded with internal toxicity that it is unable to reproduce.”

John Robbins says that, “Tests done at several major universities have found that nearly 25% of today’s college students are sterile.  This is a terrifying trend.  Only thirty-five years ago, the sterility rate was less than one-half of one percent.”

There is a new trend in the Hallelujah Lifestyle living.  We are seeing more and more young families coming through our Lifestyle Center.  They are watching their parents or grandparents die of horrific diseases in the hands of the best known medical procedures and they choose to not want that for themselves or their family.  One QUICK look at the Hallelujah Diet and people think it is drastic or radical.  But is it not radical to overlook the fact that God would not have left us here without a dietary plan that would best suit the creation He made? 

When disaster strikes, we are too often  pressed and driven to make decisions based on fear or peer pressure rather than on knowledge.  When we are in crisis mode, it is very difficult to take the time to get educated.  The medical community, our family, friends and peers are putting pressure on us to do this or do that.  Life can be on the line!  Our recommendation is that you educate yourself PRIOR to crisis and to start taking control of your health and lifestyle choices NOW before a crisis rears its ugly head. 

We all know that the first year of a child’s life show tremendous growth for which a high nutritive intake is essential.  Babies under eight or nine months cannot tolerate an unhealthy diet.  A good diet is so closely tied to normal child development in life that undernourishment usually shows up very quickly.

After the child is weaned and up to about three years of age, the child’s eating patterns focus around those of the family.  The parent has control over the child’s diet.  This is the time to begin reinforcing good eating habits.  Unfortunately, most adults do not know that they are eating a disease causing diet and they certainly do not realize that they are instilling this pattern of bad health choices into their children.  Most people take better care of their cars and their pets, than they do in taking care of themselves.  This is due to the lack of knowledge of not understanding the impact that our food choices have on our health.  We all know that a chocolate cake is not as nourishing as a salad, but when it comes to applying that principal to our lives, the chocolate cake tends to win out because we do not see its harmful effects right away.

Our children need direction and it needs to start with the parents.  If a child sees their parents choosing a healthy food and choosing it with purpose, they will tend to follow our example.  When a child gets sick, we can gently remind them that when too much sugar is consumed, our immune system is weakened and that is why they became ill.

What if your child is already ten years old – or a teenager.  How can you possibly change their eating habits now???  It can seem like an overwhelming task to change a child’s diet from the standard fast food, junk food diet to a healthy, living foods diet but it is possible and parents all over are doing it.  Realize that it will be difficult to change them to a 75% to 85% raw plant based diet, but every step in the right direction will reap benefits.  Here are a few suggestions on how to implement dietary lifestyle changes into your family.

When a child is sick, gently remind them of the choices they have recently made.  Tell them the benefits of drinking carrot juice and BarleyMax and how living foods and juices will help to rebuild their “sick-controls” (immune system) in their body.  Buy a couple books that will help to teach them about their food choices.  (Hallelujah Kids, Chelsea’s Secrets)  Our children will become aware that the kids they play with who eat poor diets are the ones who are out sick so often.  They will associate their good habits with their wellness.

The Immune System – Equip your army’s soldiers  to beat the bad guys.  (All kids recognize that there is a good guy/bad guy theme to all the stories they read).  White blood cells are our army to defend us against the bad guys like germs, bacteria, and viruses.  When we eat sugar, it makes the soldiers in our army go to sleep, so there’s no one there to protects us from the bad guys.  When we eat good foods like fruits, vegetables, fresh juices, it’s like giving our soldiers ammunition.  The good things in good foods stop the bad guys.  Drinking water helps the soldiers move faster and get around more easily.

Even our children suffer from unnecessary ailments and diseases.  If we concentrate our efforts into teaching our children about living foods and juices we will save them from ill health and we will be instilling in them – life saving techniques and abundant health for their future.  (See this month’s Children book specials via Internet ordering only).