As parents, it is important that we set good nutritional examples. We all know the importance of eating healthy, well-balanced meals. But it is often difficult to put anything on the dinner table, let alone making sure that every meal is nutritionally sound. This is why supplementation just simply makes sense.
Preparing healthy meals based on fruits, vegetables, whole grains, and lean proteins (like beans, nuts, seeds, fish, and poultry), while avoiding over-processed, nutrient-poor foods, can help establish good nutritional habits in your child that can last a lifetime. One-third of children and adolescents consume fast food daily.
Multivitamins Can Help Fill Nutritional Gaps
Unfortunately, even the best efforts to prepare a balanced diet often fall short in providing the recommended levels of nutrients. Many children do not meet daily recommendations for several nutrients including vitamins A, C, E, and K and calcium and magnesium. Similar deficiencies are found for health-promoting nutrients without official recommended daily intakes, like omega-3 fatty acids (particularly DHA), and probiotics. For a variety of reasons, most kids simply do not consume these important nutrients on a regular basis.
This is where supplementation can really help bridge nutritional gaps in a child’s diet, without adding significant calories. Our children aren’t just little adults. They don’t act or function the way adults do (anyone who has had a 3-year-old can attest to that!). But more importantly, their young bodies are still growing; their metabolisms and nutritional demands are different than those of an adult. Furthermore, excessive amounts of certain nutrients (such as iron) can be toxic in children. Children may have unique nutritional needs, so working closely with your child’s pediatrician can help too. All of these factors should be considered before giving a child a supplement.
One way to address many of these needs is a daily multivitamin supplement specifically formulated for children. Unfortunately, many leading children’s supplements deliver cheap, poorly absorbed forms of vitamins and minerals, and are often formulated with undesirable artificial colors, sweeteners, and/or flavors.
doTERRA a2z Chewable™ tablets are a great tasting, concentrated source of your child’s daily vitamins and minerals. Each serving delivers a balanced blend of B vitamins and is an excellent source of vitamins A, C, D, E, and K. This unique formula also delivers a comprehensive blend of botanical powders and extracts along with brain and nervous system supporting nutrients, to help support the nutritional needs of growing bodies.*
doTERRA a2z Chewable is a delicious and easy way to ensure that your kids get the nutrients they need from high quality sources without the artificial colors, flavors, and sweeteners so abundant in other children’s vitamins.
As parents, one of the most important things that we can do for our children is setting an example through our good nutritional habits. As the old adage goes, “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.”
Probiotics For Healthy Tummies
These days, it seems as though everyone is talking about probiotics and how they help maintain the health of the digestive and immune systems. Yogurt is a source of probiotics that most children enjoy. However, brands have a lot of added sugar and typically only deliver relatively small amounts of a single probiotic strain. In addition, some kids may be allergic to dairy.
One of doTERRA’s most recent dietary supplement offerings helps address the nutritional need for probiotics without the dairy, sugar, or unfamiliar taste of fermented foods. PB Assist® Jr is a powdered probiotic supplement designed with children in mind. It includes 5 billion live cells of a unique blend of six different probiotic strains, to support both digestive and immune health.* These probiotics have been blended into a delicious powder that can be poured directly into the mouth for a fun and tasty way to integrate probiotics into anyone’s daily routine.
Mother Nature’s Best Brain Food: Omega-3 Fatty Acids
Healthy eating and obtaining adequate nutrition is important for healthy growth and development, including healthy brain function, concentration, and learning. Arguably, there are no more important nutrients for the healthy growth and function of the brain and nervous system than omega-3 fatty acids, particularly docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). In fact, 60 percent of the brain is structural fat and DHA, which makes up more than 30 percent of gray matter (the information processing center of the brain). This gray matter structure is extremely important for signal transmissions in the brain, eyes, and nervous system. Unfortunately, the richest source of omega-3 fatty acids are often some of the most avoided by children: fish and seafood.
For kids who have distaste for fish and seafood, doTERRA IQ Mega® provides a great way to get the important benefits of omega-3 fatty acids, without the “fishy” taste so typical of other fish oil supplements. IQ Mega combines the fresh orange flavor of Wild Orange essential oil with 1,000 mg of concentrated omega-3 fatty acids (including 400 mg of brain supportive DHA), without concerns about mercury, contaminants, or fishy aftertaste. It can be taken straight by the teaspoonful, blended into fruit and vegetable smoothies, or added to other healthy beverages or foods.
Supplementation It Just Makes Sense
As parents, it is important that we set good nutritional examples. We all know the importance of eating healthy, well-balanced meals. But it is often difficult to put anything on the dinner table, let alone making sure that every meal is nutritionally sound. This is why supplementation just simply makes sense.
Of course, getting nutrients from a healthy, well-balanced diet should continue to be strived for. But the reality is that most children simply do not eat as well as they should. Supplementation offers an affordable and convenient way to fill nutrient gaps. Great tasting, convenient, easy-to-use supplements like doTERRA a2z Chewable, IQ Mega, and PB Assist Jr help to fill these gaps and promote a foundation for lifelong health and vitality.
Information and credit given to Your Vibrant Essence and dōTERRA.
ABC’S OF KIDS SUPPLEMENTS
**Always consult your child’s pediatrician before giving your child any dietary supplement.
**Be on the lookout for products that have been specifically formulated with children in mind (e.g. doTERRA a2z Chewable, IQ Mega, and PB Assist Jr).
**Carefully read and follow the instructions on the product label and keep all supplements out of the reach of children.
*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.
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