It’s been a slow conversion for me. I had a tough battle… I was a working mom and most of Kyle’s first foods were doughy and starchy and processed… but he had a fabulous care provider so I can’t complain about the food selection. And I’ll admit… I was so overwhelmed with baby and home and work that I just said “he ate!” and was happy.

Well fast forward 5 years.

My husband has a family history of high blood pressure and high cholesterol and Pat is following right in that family history. I look at the women in my family and BOTH of my grandmas are still alive, the women in my family live to a ripe old age. I’m not worried. But poor dh.. they are DOOMED by biology. And realizing my children now have 1/2 the DNA in their mix we are on a revised diet in our home not just for dh… but also setting life style for our children who will face the same bad heart conditions that Pat currently is facing.

Bottom line.. family history bad heart… Pat has it… he is seeing all test results to support it… and we need to live a more healthy family life style to help the kiddos eat more healthy to avoid the family curse. And let’s just hope my old woman genes are spliced in there somewhere…

Well I’ve given you the “symptoms” but no cure! The cure is evolving and very long but step one was we went “whole wheat.” Kyle was used to the doughy wonder bread from day care and for a year I tolerated this. But in Missouri we could at least buy the “wonder kids” or some other named bread that was vitamin infused and had the daily requirements of calcium in it. In Oregon we only had plain old wonder bread in its bleached wheat puny nutrient form.

So I took a radical step and I started buying whole wheat bread. I went for the orowheat which is packaged with an inner wrapper which IMHO helps keep the freshness. We are big toast people anyways so I use the tender loaf centers first for sandwiches and save the outer pieces for toast. Kyle was on to me Immediately… I had to wear the boy down, tough him out… but not too long ago we were at some one’s house and they had doughy white bread and he turned up his nose. I don’t eat white bread… he said!

Coming next how I banned Jif!

Posted on 07/19/07, 11:46 PM
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