The Whole Child Wellness program quite often makes recommendations to parents regarding dietary changes. We perform a comprehensive IgG food allergy test before we list specific foods a child needs to avoid. Successfully making the recommended dietary changes requires diligence and patience, and are a necessary evil, vital to resolving the child's brain imbalance.
Chicken nuggets, pizza, chips, bread, cereal, ice cream, macaroni and cheese. This is just a sampling of the foods that kids love and want to eat all the time. It can be a daunting task to cut these offending foods out of your child's diet. Parents struggle to find nutritious, healthy foods their child will actually eat, and quite often, the children backslide and become irritable, hyper or super-sensitive, seem fatigued or even experience headaches and nausea. These are the physical withdrawal symptoms presented as the child goes through detox. Similar symptoms occur in adults who quit smoking and go through nicotine withdrawal, or stop caffeine and go through caffeine withdrawal. It is important to note that in susceptible children, the protein components in milk (casein) and wheat (gluten/gliandin) can form a morphine-like chemical that their bodies have adapted to. When you take that chemical out of the body, the body will have physical withdrawal symptoms similar to that of a drug addict.
Most parents look at these behaviors as negative things, equating them with side effects from medications which are bad for you and last as long as you take the medication. We here at Whole Child Wellness look at these side effects as a positive sign. A sign that the body is detoxing, eliminating the offending substance. We know that this backslide into negative behaviors is temporary, short lived, and a necessary sign of healing within the brain.
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