Weight curve on Doris! When should we start talking about lifestyle?

Weight curve on Doris! When should we start talking about lifestyle?

When we had our daughter Doris with Down's Syndrome 14 years ago, I wished that some educator or philosopher had the answer to all the problems that arose - educational as well as philosophical. I therefore return once again to the problems surrounding diet, lifestyle and hypothyroidism.

I wonder when we should start talking about lifestyle and our own possibility of change. Just because everything has always been a certain way in your or my life, it does not mean that the situation is fixed. You can actually influence the lifestyle yourself. It is perhaps because I was a little naive at times and had too much faith in others and thought that the professionals know best. But is it the case that the professionals always know best? Who is the pro in this case? Here I think that the professionals sit at the childcare center or the habilitation center with whom we have such close contact at the start of the lives of our children with disabilities.

The professionals know a lot but maybe not everything. What I had wished for when we had our daughter 14 years ago was that someone had a holistic view of the matter. An example of how crooked and strange things are with regard to lifestyle issues is, for example, that those of us who have children with Down syndrome know that people with DS have their own growth curve. It is entirely its own and is then an average of what it might look like with the balance between weight and height. Doris followed that growth curve until the day our whole family decided to change our diet and take care of what our bodies needed and cut out what only did harm. Then her pattern was broken in the growth curve intended for children with Down syndrome.

The last time we were checked by the cardiologist, I asked the nurse to put Doris' measurements and weight on a so-called normal curve instead. Whoops! Then her weight and height agreed with the values ​​of the normal curve. Well, she's only barely six feet tall, but her weight curve suddenly matches her height according to the new curve perfectly.

What does this mean then? Well, in my world it means that there is far too little talk about diet and lifestyle. We chase after our children and want them to move more and stop eating such large portions because (perhaps due to hypothyroidism) they quite often have excess weight to carry. Imagine if you already talked about relevant lifestyle factors at the habilitation or even better at the childcare center instead of discussing the introduction of gluten and milk. Then it might have been smarter to look at the industry. It is nutrition we need. We need to look at foods that are healthy and filling rather than stuffing our children full of things that trigger their reward system. Our children must be allowed to be full and satisfied with real, healthy and balanced food. Food for body, brain and soul.

The dog gets food that is limitlessly nutrient-dense, but we just want to see our children satisfied and happy. In my opinion, it is not serious. On the other hand, I think that sugar has been taken more seriously and focused on, although perhaps it has mostly been about dental health. But in any case, this pleases me, but it is not good enough. Actually, it would be some form of education about what is actually nutrient-dense food with inspiration and information about what we actually need in our bodies. 2 slices of cucumber, a wedge of tomato is not a further good representation from the vegetable counter. The hot dog then? 40% meat. Wow! Macaroni!Totally nutrient-free. Imagine if the habilitation could spit out this kind of knowledge instead of wondering what they can assist with. I am calling for knowledge about how we should eat to give our children the most nutrient-dense and healthy food possible and focus on the body's need for all that it must have in order to grow and become its best self. You can't answer this when you're standing there as a newly hatched funky parent.

Today, we don't have a problem with the amount of food, but with the nutritional content. Now most of us are overfed and malnourished. In my blog, I try to contribute with nutrient-dense recipes for the whole family and a way of thinking about food and nutrition that gives us better conditions to cope with everyday life. Feel free to botanize among all my recipes. The bank is continuously replenished. Much pleasure!