What I learnt from Children's Nutrition Talk

 Hi folks,

One Sunday, I attended a talk on Kids' Nutrition by a Nutritionist who is also studying the art of Chinese medicine.

Here are my brief notes for some of the points I managed to grabbed (with the limited Mandarin vocab I have):

1. Each human born with Original/Base Source of Qi which 98% comes from mom (when they were born) and 2% comes from daily nutrition.
2. Basic function like for e.g. Heart pumping blood to liver, waking us up uses very little basic qi(in chinese they call it "yuan qi")
3. Daily lifestyle and proper & adequate nutrition contributes back Yuan Qi back to our body. This includes exercise, emotional management, food we consumed.
4. Yuan Qi is very important to replenish/repair organ & for our body emergency reaction & healing purpose ( immunity)
5. Chinese medicine acts to activate inner qi to rebuild our body

What depletes our "Yuan Qi" ?

1. Meat diet
2. Radiation

What increases Our "Yuan Qi" ?

1. Daily Cultivation
2. Nutrition

四白(Four Whites which are not "useful" for us)

-white flour

- white rice

- white sugar

- white polished salt

 

Should be replaced by:

- wholemeal/Whole or multigrain bread

- brown rice

- brown sugar

- sea salt

 

All these contributes a better diet to replenish sufficient Yuan Qi to be utilized by our body.

 

Without proper diet, what goes into our body will turned into fats and "rubbish" accumulated in our body

 

Radiation

From electrical appliances makes our body frequency irregular & unable to connect to the common signals from the universe.

Human freq- 8-10hz

Outside freq-10*6 hz

Thus human cells are killed easily plus makes us unable to connect with the common signals from the universe like our ancestors did.

(My thought: That probably explains why during the tsunami happened to Malaysia, esp. at Penang, the animal sense it earlier than human as they still preserve the healthy frequency unlike human nowadays!)

 

What to do?

-Reduce exposures to radiation especially for kids(including mobile phone)

 

Best nutrition- 3 yrs & below

- Breastmilk

- If not breastfed, need to replenish "Yin Er Jun"

(a kind of healthy bacteria/culture for baby)

(Note: Sorry I am sure the English term, perhaps someone who knew can enlighten me 'cos the talk is in Mandarin)

- ABC soup, banana/ apple/vege paste

(In paste form to reduce energy used to digest and concentrate on absorbing the nutrients)

- broccoli paste

-almond+black sesame  paste(thin)

- cashew nuts- dry-fried, blendered

 

3-4 yrs

- millet, quinoa( very easy to digest) save inner qi to digest

- can add red dates (pitted)+ carrot in porridge

- Encourage and nurture the kids to chew their food slowly, 20 bites each spoonful

(Note: This one I heard before, our former PM, Dr. M seems to be practicing this..no wonder he is still alert and in good health at 80, worth trying, starts from us!!)

 

6 yrs above

- Brown rice + millets

- 5 colors vegetables (mix different types of vegetables for absorption of different nutrients

- Use grape seed oil for cooking

- Steam vege instead of frying or blanching(unless water would be used for soup base)

- Eat more fruits instead of chocolates and sweets

- Steam sweet potatoes

(Note: The gas that comes out indicates the sweet potatoes in action to dispel the toxic in our body)

- Bubur chaca thrice a week- replaced coconut milk with soymilk, very good nutrients especially for children (take it thrice a week for best results)

- 5 grains oatmilk, goat's milk for boys

- Almond powder & soymilk for girls

 

 

Now, folks, these are just my sharing of what I learnt and heard at the nutrition talk. By all means, adopt what you think is suitable for you. Consult your doctor/pediatrician/profesional advice if you have any special medical condition. 

 

For me, I will also try and apply what makes sense and workable for me. Since it is all natural food, so I am open to try them out. 

 

By the way, I managed to get the slides(in Chinese) for the talk from the organiser. So if you like to learn in more detail, please leave your comment & email or e-mail ok!

 

Before I end, my sincere apologies if there are any incorrect or inaccurate details shared here...mainly is for my own record and info retrieval while sharing it with my other parent frens out there!

 

Cheers and have a happy and healthy children!