Doman Nutrition Plan

Early Learning Teaching Your Child - Other Topics
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I suppose it ties in with teaching your child. We are eating more whole foods at our house. My boys are 3 1/2 and 1 yr old. I made their baby food, and make “green smoothies” often. Still, I was wondering what The Doman System recommends for the Nutrition part of their weekly courses. I know Janet Doman was very involved with that aspect. Any clues or tips?

Thanks

mmhillard

Great recipe: Blend 2 1/2 c water with 4 cups of spinach and kale, until it’s as watery as can be. Then 1 1/2 c mixed berries (frozen), 2 sliced apples, and 2 bananas. I also add some flax oil to help digest all the greens. My little one loves it. The older boy likes it once in a while. I suppose sometimes it might feel “forced”.

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Hi,

Some things you can find in IAHP’s book “The Pathway to Wellness” http://www.gentlerevolution.com/mm5/merchant.mvc?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=G&Product_Code=PTW&Category_Code=SpNeedsBks. Don’t know if other IAHP materials have info about nutrition plan too.

Andrea

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The Institutes does have recommended reading for books like [i]Green for Life[i] (we do greens smoothies at my house too once in a while), [i]Disease Proof Your Child[i], and [i]The China Study[i]. Generally a plant-based diet is recommended and a rotational diet for brain-injured children (do not repeat any of the same foods within a four day period but you can repeat the same food on the same day). I cannot manage the rotational diet but have tried, along with journaling those foods and the child’s possible responses. When we first started the nutritional program we removed many foods from my daughter’s diet. The only two food types we are never suppose to reintroduce are dairy and corn. The use of suppliments, multivitamin, multimineral, DHA, and probiotics are also recommended. Again these are recommendations taught for use with brain-injured children and I don’t know if parents of well children would find many of these activities as necessary as they can get quite burdensome. I did not discover any nutrition or food-related issues with my daughter except that digestion is better overall than it was when she had dairy, overall health is great - we rarely get sick, and my daughter eats foods a lot of kids on the Standard American Diet (which is SAD) would not normally eat. What the Institutes taught us has helped my whole family eat better.

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Our family follows Dr. Barry Sears, “The Zone”, along with his Omega 3 supplements and vitamins:

http://drsears.com/

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We eat casein-free, gluten-free, soy-free, and artifical-additive-free whole organic foods. All four of the kids have dietary restrictions.

We eat meat like it’s going out of style though, with low-mercury fish once a week.

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Hi there.

Would you please elaborate more on what is meant by “low-mercury fish”? I am only aware of this tuna calculator by EWG, and have wondered about other types of fish we eat regularly:

http://www.ewg.org/tunacalculator

We also eat as much organic as possible.

Thanks.
Ayesha

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River fish typically are lower in mercury than ocean fish, and small fish lower than larger fish. There is a list near the bottom of this page http://longevity.about.com/od/lifelongnutrition/a/fish_mercury.htm

We tend to eat salmon the most, some sole, flounder, and tilapia.