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With the Wind with Dr. Paul – Show 177: Pediatric Perspectives: Good Food for Good Health with Zen Honeycutt
 
 
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Dr. Paul
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Dr. Paul
Good morning. PhD. Welcome to Pediatric Perspectives, where we are looking at children's health challenges with a different perspective. One that includes critical thinking. One is not afraid to give you the honest truth and ask the hard questions. It is a privilege to have. Back on the show, then, Hunnicutt, founder and director of Moms Across America. And we are going to cover today.
 
00:01:58:57 - 00:02:13:50
Dr. Paul
This is the episode. If you've ever wondered how the heck do I navigate food and bring to my family and my children the best options out there? There's no one better than Zen to help us with that, so stay tuned. Thank you, Zen, for joining us today.
 
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Zen Honeycutt
Thank you, Doctor Paul. So happy to be here with your audience. Thank you for taking your time, everyone.
 
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Dr. Paul
Last time we had you on, you were wow. Some of the testing that moms across America is doing, the finding of glyphosate in gluten free products, and then the baby formula is just all having too much aluminum and lead and the presence of other heavy metals. So that sort of is the prelude to now. I've raised kids, and back when I did it, I was clueless.
 
00:02:42:13 - 00:03:03:20
Dr. Paul
I shudder at how horribly I, I performed in, in the terms of getting kids nutrients and avoiding toxins. Maybe you can start with just the one and one course on how do we avoid toxins and how how do we start off maybe with pregnancy and then infancy? We all have to eat healthy so that we get our nutrients.
 
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Dr. Paul
And how do we avoid toxins to the best of our ability?
 
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Zen Honeycutt
Oh, great. Great question. And this is a big one because toxins come from so many different places. And, I just want to preface I'm not a toxin expert. Right? I am a mom who is, there's a saying that goes that the worried mom does better research than the FBI. And I was one of those worried moms.
 
00:03:24:27 - 00:03:48:11
Zen Honeycutt
My kids were quite sick and had 20 different food intolerances or allergies. It was really, really hard to feed my kids. So I get the challenge that most parents are facing today. When you have a child with a food allergy, especially a life threatening one like my son and I saw him almost die in front of my eyes on Thanksgiving Eve evening when there were pecans in the stuffing.
 
00:03:48:11 - 00:04:05:14
Zen Honeycutt
And I served him that stuffing. I just had no inclination ever, that somebody would put pecans in Thanksgiving stuffing, because my mom never did that. So, he almost died. His eyes rolled back in his head. We had rush to the emergency room. He had to use the EpiPen. Blood was spurting out all over the place. It was a nightmare.
 
00:04:05:19 - 00:04:24:52
Zen Honeycutt
And so I get how scary it is. And I also get how for years I lived in fear. Going to social events actually put me into almost a state of PTSD. I was a very serious and unfriendly person because I was always looking for, you know, whether or not there was a chocolate chip cookie on the coffee counter that my son would grab and end up in the hospital.
 
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Zen Honeycutt
Right. So I get the challenge and how to avoid these toxins. That could be very threatening to your children, whether it's a food allergen, you know, a food allergen that we may not consider a toxin, but is actually now the body is considering it harmful because I believe of the toxins. That were in the have been in the food supply now for about 28 years.
 
00:04:49:50 - 00:05:13:59
Zen Honeycutt
That's GMOs. And, you know, genetic genetically modified food and the related agrochemicals are what are actually contributing to the increase in allergies. So whether it's the pesticides and herbicides and the fungicides or the actual, you know, unbroken down food particles that are in the body that the body now conceives to be a foreign invader because of the leaky gut, right?
 
00:05:13:59 - 00:05:39:44
Zen Honeycutt
The the the little holes in the stomach, the wheat got out or the eggs got out, the dairy got out, and the body says attack. It's a foreign invader and perceives that to be an allergy, whether it's, you know, the actual food or what's been done to it, we are our body is experience basically a toxic right. So it's causing inflammation, rashes and bumps, that most doctors think that I mean, most mothers think they just need to go to a doctor and get a cream to put on it.
 
00:05:39:49 - 00:05:56:12
Zen Honeycutt
That's not going to cut it. That's not going to stop your child from having that allergic reaction. You need to get to the source of why your child is having that. And it's mostly the toxins in the food supply that are contributing to those allergies. And the way to do that, number one, is to buy organic as much as possible.
 
00:05:56:17 - 00:06:23:34
Zen Honeycutt
However, some organic is still contaminated, so we need to keep that in mind. And frankly, I think we we everybody it not just march across America, but definitely the FDA needs to be doing their job and testing for toxins in the food supply. We need to know the source, where they're coming from, what we can do about it, and who's doing the right thing, and how other food companies or food suppliers can emulate that.
 
00:06:23:38 - 00:06:48:11
Zen Honeycutt
So what we've been finding, though, what the information that we have for right now is that in order to avoid glyphosate, which is the number one most widely used herbicide in the world, you want to avoid non-organic grains like chickpeas and grains, beans and and legumes. So, for instance, wheat is, often very commonly sprayed with glyphosate as a drying agent.
 
00:06:48:11 - 00:07:07:35
Zen Honeycutt
It does not wash dry your cook off. It will end up in your food. If it's especially if it's not organic. Chickpeas have been found to be very high. Chickpeas and garbanzo beans very high in glyphosate. If they're dried, right. The canned chickpeas have not been found to contain any or if very, very low levels of glyphosate.
 
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Zen Honeycutt
So if you if you really want hummus, buy the canned chickpeas and make your own. Okay. Because the, the hummus that's being found in the grocery store is often utilized making, you know, hummus with chickpeas that have been sprayed with glyphosate as drying agent. And so very high levels in that oats also very high levels of glyphosate in oats.
 
00:07:29:15 - 00:07:52:52
Zen Honeycutt
So you want definitely need to eat organic oats if you want to avoid oats sprayed with glyphosate as a drying agent. Good news is, is that there is one distribution, facility in North America that is now no longer accepting any oats sprayed with glyphosate. So there's a much higher chance down the road very, very soon, if not now, that your oats, even if they're not organic, won't be sprayed with glyphosate as a drying agent, there's a very strong possibility.
 
00:07:53:06 - 00:08:07:01
Zen Honeycutt
We don't know if they're spraying other chemicals as a drying agent, like dicamba or 240 or, you know, other types of chemicals. So that has yet to be explored. And we wish the FDA would get on top of that. And find out if.
 
00:08:07:05 - 00:08:11:05
Dr. Paul
You guys share your secret knowledge about which oats to buy.
 
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Zen Honeycutt
Well, we don't actually know right now, but what we do know that the organic samples, you know, have been much better as far as oats go with some. Not at all. And there are, there is a brand that is, certified glyphosate free. There's at least 1 or 2 brands of that. I'm sorry. I don't know the brand names right off the top of my head right now.
 
00:08:31:44 - 00:08:46:07
Zen Honeycutt
That is really good idea to double check in to actually do an article on the, glyphosate and oats. I'm going to do that because we want to celebrate those brands that are glyphosate residue free. And, you know, the farmers don't use, don't use oat,
 
00:08:46:12 - 00:08:51:19
Dr. Paul
Oats. I would add soy and corn as big concerns for glyphosate. Right?
 
00:08:51:23 - 00:09:20:41
Zen Honeycutt
Yes. Especially soy corn because it's covered with the husk. Not so much, actually, it's a surprise. But the corn has not has had, levels quite as high. Lentils and mung beans have had much higher levels than, corn, so. But soy has had some high levels. It's mostly the grains. Unfortunately, beer drinkers, barley and hops and rye, those types of things, they can be sprayed with glyphosate as a drying agent.
 
00:09:20:46 - 00:09:43:50
Zen Honeycutt
So you really want to, as much as possible, ask you know, the suppliers or the brands, you know, do your suppliers use glyphosate as a drying agent? We just have to ask. We have to find out and, and do that type of work. But anyway, so the main point is avoid grains if you want to avoid glyphosate, especially the non-organic grains.
 
00:09:43:55 - 00:10:09:35
Zen Honeycutt
If you're you're going to eat food that is not organic and you want to eat grains, I would go for the, ancient greats like heirloom. Kamut international has my favorite, wheat berry type of grain. It's the type of, wheat that probably Jesus ate. And it's very, very agent. And it actually has been shown to improve the gut microbiome.
 
00:10:09:40 - 00:10:29:08
Zen Honeycutt
And, it is delicious. It it's like, kind of like a nutty, buttery flavor that's caught, it's a coarse on grain and it's from Como International. I also like spelt and einkorn. There's certain type of ancient grain, like red wheat berries. It's the modern wheat that has gliding in it that some people can be intolerant to.
 
00:10:29:13 - 00:10:53:30
Zen Honeycutt
And it's the modern processes where they spray glyphosate as a drying agent that, most people are reacting to. For instance, Doctor Zach Bush is a triple triple board certified doctor. He says that most people who have a gluten intolerance are not actually reacting to the gluten. They're reacting to the glyphosate, on the gluten, on the, wheat.
 
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Zen Honeycutt
So that is something to consider if you feel like you're reacting to wheat and you just want to switch straight to gluten free. I would invite you to consider switching to ancient grains first. Because even if they're not labeled organic, most ancient grain growers are not going to be spraying glyphosate as a drying agent. They're just there to dedicated to their work.
 
00:11:13:32 - 00:11:24:15
Zen Honeycutt
That would be like a bio dynamic. Grape growers spraying glyphosate on their. They just wouldn't do that. So, that's what I would suggest. First of all, for for life issue.
 
00:11:24:20 - 00:11:47:42
Dr. Paul
Okay. So I'm an expecting mom. Actually, I'm, I'm a dad, not a mom, but, I identify as a male, but. So moms who want to have healthy babies, they're going to eating ancient grains and organic, real whole foods so they minimize their processed foods, drink filtered water to minimize toxins coming in the water. Perhaps suggest you might consider avoiding all vaccines while pregnant.
 
00:11:47:42 - 00:11:50:48
Dr. Paul
I don't give medical advice. I'm retired. I'm not licensed.
 
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Zen Honeycutt
This. You can do that. Consider that.
 
00:11:52:55 - 00:12:11:28
Dr. Paul
Consider that, look into that, and then you have your baby. There's the the thing about breastfeeding and formula, touch on that a little bit. What what what should they do there. And if they have to use formula what would be your suggestions. They're can they make their own or are there certain brands that are better.
 
00:12:11:33 - 00:12:33:49
Zen Honeycutt
Yes, absolutely. So yeah. Thank you for mentioning avoiding processed foods. That is imperative. There's corn sirup solids and GMOs and 75% of America's processed foods. And along with the corn sirup solids cause all kinds of chemicals like hexane and glyphosate and, you know, pesticides and heavy metals and all that stuff. So, yeah, thank you for mentioning that.
 
00:12:33:49 - 00:12:57:46
Zen Honeycutt
And also, the corn sirup solids are in baby formulas, so some baby formulas can be up to 47%. Corn sirup products. So that's shocking. And babies should not be consuming corn sirup solids like that at that early, even age. So what you want to do first is consider that you may not need baby formula if you're using it as a supplement for, you know, because you think you don't have enough milk.
 
00:12:57:50 - 00:13:19:10
Zen Honeycutt
As I covered in a previous episode. You're actually the baby's stomach is the size of a cherry when it's born, and it's the size of an egg at one month old, so it doesn't need eight ounces of milk or four ounces of milk. As some new mothers like myself assumed, I need to give my my baby like, a lot of milk every time it eats, which is 3 to 5 times a day, right?
 
00:13:19:10 - 00:13:41:44
Zen Honeycutt
Probably five times a day. That's just not true. The baby will consume what it needs and it will stop and, or projectile vomit if it's consuming too much. And, and most of the time, your breasts make the amount of milk that your baby needs. So just consider that you may not need as much baby formula as you need.
 
00:13:41:44 - 00:13:58:37
Zen Honeycutt
Next, there are many different ways to make your own baby formula. I'm sorry I don't have them memorized right now, but we can make sure to get you a link to that. Doctor Michelle Perreault has some information on GMO science. She is the one that spearheaded the baby formula testing. I forgot to mention that earlier, but I want to mention her.
 
00:13:58:46 - 00:14:24:13
Zen Honeycutt
Her dedication to our children is extraordinary. She has a book out called What's Making Our Children Sick, and she has another book out coming soon called Making Our Children. Well, and she has on her, website an article, some suggestions for the baby formula. You can you can make your own and, just because we found high levels of aluminum in goat's milk, I don't want people to assume that all goat's milk is bad.
 
00:14:24:13 - 00:14:55:14
Zen Honeycutt
By the way, there are many people who have used goat's milk. And that has, you know, that has worked out well for them. I would also suggest if you know the source, there are breast milk banks where you can get human breast milk from other people, the breast milk banks. However, I would be concerned about the possibility of that mother having gotten a vaccine during pregnancy or shortly afterwards that could, you know, lead to, for instance, spike proteins in the breast milk.
 
00:14:55:14 - 00:14:57:29
Zen Honeycutt
I would be concerned about that.
 
00:14:57:34 - 00:15:20:19
Dr. Paul
And thank you for making that point. We didn't have to worry about that five years ago, but definitely found spike protein does get into the breast milk. And I don't think they're screening at the, commercial. Breast milk banks just as they're not doing it for blood either. So if you're going to use someone else's breast milk, make sure they have not been Covid vaccinated.
 
00:15:20:24 - 00:15:22:56
Dr. Paul
That just seems like a very prudent thing.
 
00:15:23:01 - 00:15:45:45
Zen Honeycutt
Yes. And and so that's where getting to know your community is really important. And, if you know a mom in your community, like if you're a part of the Moms Club International or Moms Club, those are, you know, two different clubs that are all over the country. You can find out for that. Mom, hey, were you vaccinated for Covid or have you had other vaccines and, you know, or as a mom, you could volunteer that information.
 
00:15:45:45 - 00:16:02:15
Zen Honeycutt
That would be great, too, when you're putting out, you know, either on Craigslist or through your mom's group, like, listen, I have not been vaccinated, but I have lots of extra breast milk. And if anybody needs it, I eat organic, right? And, I don't smoke. I hardly ever drink or, you know, don't drink or whatever. You know, that type of information.
 
00:16:02:15 - 00:16:14:06
Zen Honeycutt
If you volunteer that information, then the moms who are looking for that won't feel as uncomfortable with asking you about that. And that would be a huge service to your community to offer that.
 
00:16:14:20 - 00:16:38:58
Dr. Paul
Moms helping moms. There are so many moms who want to breastfeed and just don't quite make enough. And, it's a wonderful thing when you can share and you have those low risk factors. We talked last time you were on about formula challenges with toxic metals in formulas, lead, cadmium, aluminum, mercury. There was aluminum and lead in everyone.
 
00:16:39:11 - 00:16:59:43
Dr. Paul
Every single formula you tested. Yeah, but you did. You did have a few that were kind of seem to a lot safer. So, folks, you can access moms across America, their website or, look at our last episode for those details. I want to so we don't run out of time. Now, that baby is is getting into solid foods.
 
00:16:59:47 - 00:17:18:04
Dr. Paul
What are your best tips? You went through this with your own kids, and? And it's not always easy to know what's the safest way to feed your children, but touch on how to how to get going with solids and then once they're toddlers and they want junk food or, you know, how, how do you have safe snacks and how do you avoid junk food?
 
00:17:18:09 - 00:17:37:53
Zen Honeycutt
Yeah. Great point. So baby food testing was done as well by the Consumers Union. And there were very high levels of heavy metals in baby food. And unfortunately some of them were in organic foods. And that was very disturbing because people are paying more money for organic baby food and don't want to have heavy metals in the baby food.
 
00:17:37:53 - 00:17:58:07
Zen Honeycutt
Right. That so that was very disturbing. What we found was that the highest levels of heavy metals in baby food was in any baby food that had cinnamon in it. Cinnamon is often ground up with, machinery. Right. And that machinery parts could have lead in it or aluminum that would, then breaks down and gets into the baby food.
 
00:17:58:07 - 00:18:17:53
Zen Honeycutt
So just avoid cinnamon. I would say altogether, I'm not even sure about organic cinnamon, for babies especially. And also the sweet potatoes or the potato baby formula. So if there was like a dinner, you know, like a turkey dinner. So it was like turkey and potatoes and carrots, those type of root vegetables tended to have more heavy metals in them.
 
00:18:18:02 - 00:18:44:33
Zen Honeycutt
So I hate to say this because I love some potatoes and sweet potatoes, and carrots. But, if you want to be very fastidious about this, I would instead steer your child towards things like, you know, ground up cauliflower or broccoli or, mango or, you know, other types of foods that are not root vegetables and, try to stay away from those for a while.
 
00:18:44:33 - 00:19:06:16
Zen Honeycutt
And then once you do start introducing them as much as possible, get them from a local organic farmer or, and if you can go so far as to know your farmer and say, hey, where do you get your manure from? Is it from, you know, a confined animal feeding operation, or is it from the cows or the pigs or the chickens or the horses or goats or whatever?
 
00:19:06:16 - 00:19:30:53
Zen Honeycutt
Bunnies are the best by the way. Honey bunny manure is the best because it's higher in nutrients. Are you getting your fertilizer from a local source like regenerative organic farmers and Gaia farms, for instance, at a local or farm, they say grow your own fertility, right? So they encourage farmers to have animals on their property that will give them the manure and the fertilizer that they need for their crops.
 
00:19:30:58 - 00:19:52:12
Zen Honeycutt
And that means you're not outsourcing your fertilizer, which is going to be loaded with heavy metals and oftentimes pesticides. So if you can go so as far, so can go so far as to know who your farmer is and where they're getting their fertilizer from. You might be one of the very lucky few that could be eating food that is way less contaminated with heavy metals.
 
00:19:52:12 - 00:20:11:01
Zen Honeycutt
You could also grow your own. And, you can freeze, baby. You can grow a whole bunch of squash and, potatoes and you can test your soil. You can also find that out. You can remediate your soil, and you can ask your farmers, local farmers to do that too. There's oyster mushrooms there are products now out there.
 
00:20:11:01 - 00:20:33:54
Zen Honeycutt
We did a moms can I call with a product? I don't remember its name right now, but, something about ancient times. I'll get the name for you later, but, there is there is a product that remediated glyphosate out of the soil and possibly heavy metals too. I'd have to check on that. But there are ways to remediate these things out of the soil and that that needs to be done.
 
00:20:33:54 - 00:20:55:58
Zen Honeycutt
That's where I think the NIH funding needs to go to. That's where regenerative organic, you know, funding needs to go to is how do we remediate the soil and get these heavy metals and toxic chemicals and glyphosate out of the soil. So that our farmers can grow food? That is that safe and nontoxic and more nutritious.
 
00:20:56:02 - 00:21:10:11
Dr. Paul
So to get back to what to actually do in the kitchen for your toddler part, yes, we could make our own baby food, and maybe it would be safer if we start with, organic produce that we're, you know, we trust.
 
00:21:10:16 - 00:21:15:24
Zen Honeycutt
Right? And by the way, rice, those little rice treats tend to be high in arsenic. So. Sorry.
 
00:21:15:29 - 00:21:17:01
Dr. Paul
Universally high in arsenic.
 
00:21:17:10 - 00:21:39:18
Zen Honeycutt
Yeah. Avoid the rice. But if you're going to make rice for your baby, like, a lot of Asian people, just eat rice with every practically every meal, there is a way to cook the arsenic off like 75% of the arsenic by boiling it first, dumping that water out like bring it to a boil, let it boil for like five minutes, dump all that water out and then put more water in, bring it to a boil again and cook it and finish it.
 
00:21:39:18 - 00:22:00:45
Zen Honeycutt
You can have get rid of 75% of the arsenic. That's way. Also you can soak your beans and when you soak your beans, dump the water, it gets rid of the fighting acid. Same thing with rice. It gets rid of the fighting acid which binds up the minerals. The fighting gases prevents the body from absorbing the minerals. So as much as possible, basically cook like your grandma did, cook like your grandma did.
 
00:22:00:45 - 00:22:03:45
Zen Honeycutt
She soaked her being. She soaked her nuts. You soaked her rice.
 
00:22:03:52 - 00:22:07:41
Dr. Paul
You are so right. But nobody even remembers how great they do.
 
00:22:07:46 - 00:22:30:31
Zen Honeycutt
Grandma forgot to tell everybody because everybody switched to, you know, in the 50s, all this marketing with like, pop tarts and packaged food and TV dinners and it just sort of wiped out all this knowledge of how to, you know, make your own sour dough bread. Everybody back. Great. Grandma's had their own sourdough starter. Well, they made bread and they soaked all of their foods before hand.
 
00:22:30:36 - 00:22:47:56
Zen Honeycutt
They. So let's go through it. Okay. First of all, plan. Make a meal plan. Okay, I know that most people think that. Oh, then I going to stick to a structure and I can't be, you know, spontaneous in the grocery store. And I love just grabbing whatever I want to eat, whatever I feel like when I go to the grocery store.
 
00:22:48:02 - 00:23:07:13
Zen Honeycutt
Well, that's how you cut your budget in half, by the way, is if you make a plan and you stick to the plan you put on there which meals you're going to have each day, and, and you only buy ingredients for those meals, you can cut your, your budget in half by doing that and not being spontaneous and just buying whatever you see in the grocery store.
 
00:23:07:17 - 00:23:27:51
Zen Honeycutt
So that's the first thing, is to plan and stick to a budget. The second thing is to buy bulk. And there are, places like Costco and even Walmart. Walmart has a huge amount of organic food right now and is actually testing low, according to what some people say, for toxins and pesticides and heavy metals and things like that.
 
00:23:27:56 - 00:23:49:40
Zen Honeycutt
And also as your standard is one that supplies food nationwide in bulk. So buying in bulk and having I think it's worth it to have a second freezer in your basement, to be able to put all that bulk food in there and be able to budget out according to, you know, you have a list of on and on one fridge of like what's in bulk downstairs.
 
00:23:49:44 - 00:23:53:43
Zen Honeycutt
And then budget out, a plan out your meals that way and buying in bulk.
 
00:23:53:47 - 00:23:56:44
Dr. Paul
What would be the top things to have in bulk?
 
00:23:56:49 - 00:24:18:34
Zen Honeycutt
Oh, definitely beans and rice. And then I always have some type of meat. It's usually, you know, chicken or ground beef that's in the freezer. Mostly, you know, we often buy, like, a half a or a quarter of a cow or something like that, or pigs from a farmer that I know and has it shipped to me.
 
00:24:18:34 - 00:24:39:16
Zen Honeycutt
It's like I buy like $600 worth of meat at a time. I know that sounds pricey, but when you break it down, per pound, it is much less expensive than buying it, you know, from your local grocery store, like, you know, for steaks and all that. So I know my farmer where I get my meat from. If I ever buy from Costco, I might get some organic chickens from there.
 
00:24:39:16 - 00:24:58:16
Zen Honeycutt
Or, you know, some, fish or whatever and buy in bulk there. So definitely rice and beans always have it on hand. I also get the tortillas, the burrito size tortillas. I can pretty much only find those as your standard. And so if I have rice and beans in the fridge along with some vegetables, my kids can always make burritos.
 
00:24:58:16 - 00:25:17:07
Zen Honeycutt
And so that is a a staple in our house. And keep in mind, they couldn't eat wheat before the two out of three of them were gluten intolerant. And now they can. As long as it's organic, they can eat wheat, dairy, eggs, one can even eat tree nuts. I was told that he was going to die from that, but he has not.
 
00:25:17:11 - 00:25:31:23
Zen Honeycutt
He just gets a mild reaction now. But he doesn't eat them on purpose. But when you heal the gut, when you avoid these foods and allow your gut to heal, your children will be able to eventually eat these foods, when they have a healed gut.
 
00:25:31:28 - 00:25:39:15
Dr. Paul
So do you have a tip for picky eaters? I had kids who just didn't want anything but the junk that they weren't supposed to have.
 
00:25:39:20 - 00:25:59:04
Zen Honeycutt
Yes, so there's two two main things to look at. Their number one is you are in charge, you're the parent. You buy the food, they are not in charge. I don't care how much they kick and scream and shout and yell. It's up to you to put food in the house that will have them be healthy. You need to be the strong one, okay?
 
00:25:59:04 - 00:26:19:26
Zen Honeycutt
And they will not starve. They will not starve themselves. They will eventually eat what you give them. And the second thing to remember is that they are craving those particular foods because the the bad bacteria in their gut wants them. It's the bad bacteria in the gut that is telling their brain, I want more cheese, I want more sugar, and I want more wheat.
 
00:26:19:41 - 00:26:42:15
Zen Honeycutt
That is what feeds the bad bacteria in the gut. And so you need to know that what you're battling with here is not a child who's trying to be sassy, who's trying to disrespect you, who doesn't like you, who's going to say hurtful things to you? I've had heard parents whose kids have said the most horrible things, including like, I'm going to kill you like really horrible things to their parents if they don't give them ice cream right?
 
00:26:42:20 - 00:27:05:56
Zen Honeycutt
So you need to remember it's the bad bacteria in their gut that's teaching them that. And you need to be la la la la la. I love you and I'm giving you, you know, even it might be rice milk or ice cream or it might be strawberries instead of ice cream. Right. If you don't want to give them processed sugar and know that for a short period of time, you're you're the gut bacteria in your children will rage and scream about this.
 
00:27:06:11 - 00:27:24:45
Zen Honeycutt
But over a period of time, they will then die off. And you can help that process by seeking a functional medicine doctor or a holistic doctor that will support you with getting the bad bacteria out of the gut, balancing it out, putting in sauerkraut. I had to give my kids gold stars for every time they ate sauerkraut for about two weeks, and after a while they realized they felt so much better.
 
00:27:24:45 - 00:27:53:52
Zen Honeycutt
I didn't even need to give them gold stars anymore. So incorporating sauerkraut apple cider vinegar in their, salad dressing, along with maybe even a little honey mustard about apple cider vinegar and kombucha and or kefir, those types of foods put in good probiotics into their gut, and you will notice once you start to balance out the gut bacteria and they get more good, bacteria in their gut, they will sleep better, they will think better, and they will behave better.
 
00:27:53:56 - 00:28:25:41
Zen Honeycutt
And that is a happy household for everyone. So it is absolutely worth it to make that transition to the food. And you can do things like buy organic chicken and make the chicken nuggets for them if they have, you know, only want to eat chicken nuggets, buy organic chicken and make chicken nuggets. And that's my actually my third point about this is make your kids chefs involve you in have to do creative experiments, have your kids plan the meal, sit down with your kids and say, what would you like to eat this week?
 
00:28:25:46 - 00:28:46:19
Zen Honeycutt
And if they say, I want to eat chicken nuggets, okay, great, we'll have that Monday. We're not going to have chicken nuggets every night. We're going to switch it up. How about would you like pizza on Tuesday. Right. And start to plan things out with them and make it organic. And yes, I know it takes more time and effort and everybody has jobs, but, you can cook a meal in half an hour.
 
00:28:46:19 - 00:29:08:08
Zen Honeycutt
And if you think about it, most of the time going through a drive and you drive through restaurant will take at least a half an hour. Once you're through the line, once you get the food, once you drive home, it's going to take that amount of time anyway. So just read, consider your time, reconsider your budget, and bring your children in to the cooking.
 
00:29:08:13 - 00:29:26:26
Zen Honeycutt
And it is a lot more fun. When I give my kids an assignment, sometimes I'll say, okay to one son, it's your turn to make the meal plan. What would you like to have this week? And lo and behold, he's cooking practically every meal that week. Like at least the dinners he enjoys cooking. And he's like, he's looking forward to making meatballs at night or or, party wings.
 
00:29:26:26 - 00:29:38:01
Zen Honeycutt
Right? Chicken party wings with his special barbecue sauce. So when kids are involved, they, they, are much happier. And they're a lot less picky because they cooked it. They're proud of it.
 
00:29:38:06 - 00:29:56:39
Dr. Paul
So I think we all need to move in with you, and you can just teach us all how to do this. I am just so impressed with this information. I know we've we've run out of time and I wish we could just go on and on. What do you have a particular resource you like to share with families or people who are struggling with, you know, how to do this?
 
00:29:56:44 - 00:30:17:43
Zen Honeycutt
Yes, and that's actually the last point I wanted to make is to educate your family, bring them into watching movies, and we have a page on our website, Moms Across america.org or.com. Both of them will get you there. We have a resource and a data page, and we have a page that just talks about movies you can watch, like for instance, Secret Ingredients, by Jeffrey Smith and Amy Hart.
 
00:30:17:47 - 00:30:35:56
Zen Honeycutt
You can watch GMO O-m-g by Jeffrey Jeremy Siefert. You can watch modified. I think there's like Kings of Corn and there's a whole bunch of movie genetic roulette. There's a whole bunch of movies about the food supply that if your child is like eight years old and up, they can watch it, they can understand and they can be your partner.
 
00:30:35:56 - 00:31:00:20
Zen Honeycutt
And that's what I did with my son was I asked him when he had terrible allergies and he said, mom, I want all my allergies to go away. I said, would you be my partner in your health? Would you drink two green drinks and try AQ therapy? You know, acupuncture and, you know, switch up the diet a little bit and like, would you do whatever it takes to get better so that someday you could, you know, maybe eat a slice of pizza at a birthday party or have a piece of cake.
 
00:31:00:25 - 00:31:22:07
Zen Honeycutt
He said he thought about it seriously. He was nine years old at the time, and he had watched a few music movies with me. But not all of them yet. But anyway, he said yes, and I said, then I promise you, you will get better. And I shook his hand. And I'm telling you, that promise that I made that I did not know how to fulfill, had me step up, and I had my son step up.
 
00:31:22:07 - 00:31:41:23
Zen Honeycutt
And in partnership together we resolved his health. He has not been to a doctor in over ten years for any health reason, except for a sports checkup. He is one of the healthiest kids I know. And, And that is priceless. That's peace of mind. He makes healthy food choices wherever he goes. Now he's 21 years old, and,
 
00:31:41:28 - 00:32:04:09
Zen Honeycutt
And that's what I want for everybody. I think if you empower your child and you step up yours, in my head, I was like, I'm willing to eat birdseed, whatever it's going to take to get my kid better. And that's the type of commitment and promise and partnership that we all need to have. I think with our children, especially with the ones that are hurting, to create a healthy lifestyle and a healthy family.
 
00:32:04:14 - 00:32:25:35
Dr. Paul
Wow. I think as adults need to do the same things. I am so excited. I'm not even going to end with my usual ending, which is, you know, go to kids first forever.com, blah blah blah, go to moms across America, support this organization, and let's make a commitment, each of us adults and for our kids. Then we're going to change how we eat.
 
00:32:25:35 - 00:32:29:25
Dr. Paul
We're going to change our lives. Thank you then. Thank you so much.
 
00:32:29:29 - 00:32:34:25
Zen Honeycutt
Thank you Doctor Paul, lovely to be with you. And thank you to the CD TV team. Thank you.
 
00:32:34:30 - 00:32:45:08
Dr. Paul
And we'll see you all next week. Thanks for watching.
 
00:32:50:27 - 00:32:52:03
Dr. Paul
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00:32:52:03 - 00:33:16:21
Dr. Paul
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00:33:16:27 - 00:33:23:43
Dr. Paul
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