Values & Benefits

My business partners are joking on a regular basis about how I treat my kids when it comes to food.

“Do you know what Judith ‘s kids have to eat for snacks? Fruits and vegetable sticks! No chips, biscuits, buns, sticky rice with chicken or anything like that. Fruits and vegetable sticks, can you believe it?”

When my kids get home from school they regularly find following situation on our family eating table:

Why? because I care about the long term physical and mental health of my children.

And my mission as a parent is to raise my children to get healthy, smart and emotionally balanced adults

Let’s make a comparison:

Essential nutrients your kid needs on a daily basis	A plate of vegetables as above with a handful nuts. Calories per serving: 288	Sticky rice with 3 chicken satay: Calories per serving: 572
Fat gr.	15	15
Carbohydrate gr	46	39.8
Dietary fibre gr	13	2.6
Protein gr	12	26.5
Vitamin A % of DI	56	1.5
Vitamin C % of DI	628
Vitamin B’s % of DI	15	22
Calcium % of DI	22	1.2
Iron % of DI	20	15
Nutrients that will hurt your kid in the medium and long run	A plate of vegetables: tomato, y. bell pepper, cucumber, fennel, celery	Sticky rice with chicken
Glycemic Index	11	18
Saturated fat gr	1	5.1
Cholesterol mg		23.7
Inflammatory Factor	460	-284

% of DI = % of daily recommend intake

Inflammation Factor Positive
This food contains known anti-inflammatory nutrients, including monounsaturated fat, selenium, docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) and folate.

Prevent premature aging,  increase cell repair, strengthen the immune system

Inflammation Factor Negative
This food contains known inflammatory nutrients, including arachidonic acid and saturated fat.

Lead to several diseases and inflammations, infertility, weaken the immune system, heart disease, diabetes, and cancer to depression, Alzheimer’s, and osteoporosis.  Inflammation also appears to be a key factor in skin aging and other outward signs of aging.

What else can we read out of the table above:

Vitamin B’s: Vitamin B’s are important for the nervous system and brain to function as well as for the grow of cells, hairs, skin, nails and connective tissue.

Vitamin B’s can only be absorbed in your pancreas in a ph neutral environment, to balance your ph value you need minerals like calcium and magnesium.

Sticky Rice and chicken do provide the Vitamin B but not the needed minerals to it.

Carbohydrates: the example above shows that there is no need for a big amounts of refined simple sugar carbohydrates in your diet. Vegetables contain a fair amount of vitamin and mineral loaded carbohydrates to energize you without teasing your insulin levels. (glycemic index)

Dietary Fibre: A high-fiber diet has many benefits, which include, balance of bowl movements, lower your risk of developing hemorrhoids, lower total blood cholesterol, can reduce blood pressure and inflammation, which is also protective to heart health, help balance or  improve blood sugar levels, there is evidence that dietary fiber reduces colorectal cancer.

To get more information about how to feed your children healthy, smart and emotionally balanced contact: Nutrition@bkk-health.com