I have a question for those who feed their young children a raw diet.
Please, of course, only answer if you feel comfortable, I suppose this could be a touchy issue for some perhaps.

How is their behavior?
For those who have raised their child raw, how is their behavior in general?
And for those who have switched them over to raw, has their behavior changed as a result?


just interested in the topic...
thank you!

Thanks for the response rawgosia...

They (the kids) sound great! Although I'm only a few years older than the oldest, haha.
I bet you're very proud of them!

I can't wait for kiddies of my own!
Just to find the right woman... 

Ha, don't worry. Not something I'm actively pursuing. I don't think age really has anything to do with it though. I'm not about dating around or just picking up girls or anything like that. Not at all.
If someone does come into my life though, that's great.

I work with kids though, so it's hard to not want my own!
But it's not like I'm constantly thinking gaaaahhh gotta find a wife and have me some babies!

I live like I feel is right.

<<in fact, if you put the two of them together, you would never know there was an age difference in their behaviour, lol.>>

Wow! I can say exactly the same thing about my kids. How come? (lol)

V good question - my oldest (now 5 1/2) is a highly intelligent little dudette, but was swollen and had manic stages which seemed to get longer and longer until she was almost always manic. For a whole year, she and I coughed and had permanently stuffed noses that never gave up any mucus. Until one day I got so sick of trying treatments for 'infection' and 'colds' and 'bronchitis' and etc, that I decided to investigate 'allergy'. I decided (very un-medical) to take us both off gluten and diary IMMEDIATELY.

Within a week both of us stopped coughing and snuffling and GUESS WHAT??? Little dudette calmed down for the first time in years. Her little pot belly also went away and she hasn't put on weight for about a year and a half, which brings her to a lot closer to her 'approved' (by maternal health nurse propaganda ) weight for her height. (Tall, and strong).

Because commercial food outlets are now selling a lot of gluten free products, I did my research, looked at all the cack still in the food and decided that raw and whole was a by far better option to eating. Little dudette eats the most fruit and vegies that I can see of her class, NEVER wants to eat tuckshop food - which despite being called 'healthy' is as processed as all getup - and her brain ticks away like mad. She's way ahead in her reading (at preppies) and I think she's going to end up one of those females about whom everyone says is 'too smart' (big deal!!)

Tiny dudette (11 months) has lactose intolerance. I feed her spinach with everything. She literally IS a green smoothie goddess, and loves it, as far as I can see. She is thriving, and although I'm a bit concerned, she has soy formula because I can't breastfeed and she can't take lactose. She munches a lot of raw vegies as she is teething, and loves bananas beyond compare. She too is a smart little cracker.

My personal belief is that when you eat you also feed your brain - so of course, behaviour is affected too. Not to mention emotions. I swear when I did the liver cleanse years ago that I was getting hangovers from eating fatty and processed foods. Wouldn't that make anyone feel like c*^&%$p??

We had a friend whose daughter had multiple and undiagnosed food allergies; she was an unhappy, disgruntled, disinterested little thing with little spark and curiousity. (She was in a great deal of digestive pain). Within a week of diagnosis and change of diet, she was like a completely new person. To see this change manifesting in front of our eyes was a miracle.

As for me? I'm probably too old and have too much to detox yet to tell whether or not my behaviour and/or moods change with raw. But I DO feel a lot better. (And the bronchial cough has completely gone) Now whenever one of us coughs or sneezes, I'm a lot more likely to ask 'what have you been eating?' rather than 'did you catch a cold?'

Hope this helps.
 
cheers, Niqi

Overall my kids are much easier to talk to and reason with when they eat raw foods. Cooked foods create argumentative attitudes. Especially from my daughter.

Both of their teachers noticed a difference when we changed their breakfast diets permanently.

xooxoxo

Hi boxcarguy07,

Actually, I remembered something. When my son was about 4, we had neighbours who adored him. They fed him jelly-bean lollies, after which Odys was running in circles like an aeorplane, and jumping around too. I asked them to stop feeding him that stuff, after he did this a few times directly after eating those.

Gosia

And not just children either. What I eat definitely affects my moods. And lets not forget that prison that introduced vegies and decreased the violence it was experiencing by something like 80%. It's been awhile since I read the article about that experiment so I could be out with the figures but oh my! What a shock I got when I read that.

I was chatting with Panda the other day who read a book and in the book it showed that 98% of alcoholics are hypoglycemic and then when a group were fed a healthy diet, or healthier, most of them did not even want to touch alcohol.

Interesting....

xoxoxox