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Good points and I'm pissed off at the food industry for putting it in the foods!!!! lol
Ok don't know where to start - my son is 10 and incredibly fussy. He loves the wonder wholemeal probably because its smooth like white. He hasn't eaten white bread for quite some time and because I couldn't get the bread he wanted I got the white version of it and he wouldn't eat it lol. Not that I wanted him to but didn't know what else to give him - he hates the grains and lumps (has a sensory thing going on too)
Chapter 12 - Cutting Out Polyunsaturated Fats (Specifically Seed Oils)
nearly everything is off the list basically because they contain polyunsaturated fats or vege oil. So nearly all chips are off unless you can find some made with olive oil (crisps in a packet)
nearly all crackers, most breads, seeds which isn't really a problem
if the label says 'vegetable oil' assume the worst - that it's palm, soy or sunflower oil - and AVOID IT!
and it was in all those things I pointed out which really freaked me out. I would much rather have sugar and worry about getting fat than the cancers he says are in the bad fats in contribution with sugar. Cancer is much more scary and worry some than the sugar which I can absolutely do without anyway.
Wow - he sounds a lot like Calvin. He has all sorts of sensory issues, too. He was also diagnosed ADHD although we worked out it was food allergies, chocolate being the worst. So I've done the whole 'raise a kid who can't have the same treats as the others' thing already. It was hard work at times, but he was pretty good about telling people, before too long.
It took a long time to get him to the point of eating seed bread, and to be honest, I think the main thing is that he's getting over the fussiness in general ( although not spontaneously, because we've worked hard at it ).
Well, don't forget, sugar also feeds cancer, and causes all sorts of other diseases ( diabetes, hearth disease, etc ). I think a lot of people here focus too much on the weight loss aspect, it's not a diet in the sense of 'pick your weight and work to it', it's a sensible and healthy way of eating. So, you cut off the food for the cancer if you don't eat sugar, although the vegetable oils seem likely to cause it in the first place. Your kid is not going to get cancer from a bit of bread, or, at least, it's very unlikely. That was kind of my point, childhood cancers are rare to start with, so it's really your call how much you pursue that avenue. Any vege oil he eats today, will leave his body in the next 5 years, so it's not permanent damage, and unlike sugar, it's not addictive and not a taste thing, he's not learning to love vegetable oils, only processed foods that contain them.
If he will only eat one type of bread, I'd try to get away from bread altogether as an alternative, if you really want to pursue it. My feeling with a kid of that age is, you're going to struggle to get the sugar thing established, so focus on that, it's really simple and easy to explain. Once he's used to being sugar free, he'll have grown a bit and you can better try to start work on the vegetable oil part.
