For Child Nutrition the Importance of Vitamins on Health is Undeniable

Why does a web site concerning parenting contain a section
on the importance of vitamins on health? The answer: a child
receiving the proper nutrition performs better in school, is
happier and will prove easier to raise. The second part of
the answer is that parents need to know that their children
are being poisoned by toxins and other dangerous substances,
and how this is transpiring. And the third part of the
answer is that parents cannot count on anyone but themselves
to protect their children from these chemical dangers.

Not only the food a child eats, but the food mother eats all
during her pregnancy has a great influence on how easy or
difficult the child will be to raise. It’s just common
sense that a healthy child proves easier to raise than an
unhealthy one- hence, the importance of vitamins on health.

The importance of vitamins on health one day may lead
to a vitamin supplement program that could eliminate cancer
and heart disease in American society.

It is well known that there exists a great deal of accepted
research for the use of vitamins and other supplements, not
only in the raising of commercial animals, but in zoo
animals as well. Animals are fed scientifically precise
diets with expert nutritionists available to advise farmers
on the need for proper vitamins and supplements; however,
when it comes to child nutrition, parents are at the mercy
of the junk food commercials seen on television.

For the facts about vitamins who can parents trust?
Isn't it peculiar that when it comes to the importance of
vitamins on health of our children, animals are given a
higher scientific priority?

Nevertheless, the importance of vitamins on health is not
only critical to child nutrition, but it can cure or improve
many childhood disorders.

The truth is the importance of vitamins on health is such
that vitamins can compensate for genetic deficiencies that
lead to disease. For example, vitamin C supplementation
compensates for our human genetic deficiency that accounts
for the lack of ability to produce vitamin C internally in
our bodies.

Folic acid exemplifies the importance of vitamins on health
because it prevents genetic diseases, like spina bifida.
Not only that but folic acid plays a key role in building
DNA, the genetic blueprint of life.

 How's that for demonstrating the importance of vitamins on
health!

Hence, the importance of vitamins on health is that they
can compensate for bad genes and even help repair DNA,
the material inside the gene that carries the genetic
information determining who we are.

For more about the importance of vitamins towards health
and bad genes, link here.

 Does bioidentical oral progesterone work to prevent children's
brain anomalies like ADHD and learning disabilities caused
by genetic disorders?

The importance in child nutrition of an optimal diet with
appropriate vitamins and supplements in treating learning
disabilities and improving learning, even in normal
children, has been proven in study after study, underscoring
the importance of vitamins on health.

Let's cite some examples of the importance of vitamins on
health, where vitamins and supplements improved child
nutrition and functioning:

  1. In 1973 Dr. Bernard Rimland, of the Institute for Child
    Behavior Research in San Diego, dosed 190 severely
    emotionally disturbed children with vitamin C, iron and a B
    complex formula, including additional B5 and B6. More than
    160 children showed some improvement after a three month
    period.

  2. In 1980 Dr. Ruth Harrell of Old Dominion University,
    Virginia, dosed sixteen mentally retarded children with
    vitamin and mineral supplements. In eight months the average
    IQ increase was about 10, with one child's IQ increasing by
    25 points. Considering these children were mentally
    retarded, Dr. Harrell's results proved an astounding
    demonstration of the importance of vitamins on health,
    regarding child nutrition.

  3. The Academy of Pediatrics questioned Dr. Harrel's
    results due to their belief that mental retardation is often
    genetically based, and, thus, not expected to be influenced
    by supplements improving child nutrition. To the contrary,
    improving child nutrition with vitamins and minerals, not
    only may compensate for genetic abnormalities, but can help
    repair genetic material, again underscoring the importance
    of vitamins on health.

  4. One study compared undernourished black children with
    well nourished black children over a period of seven years.
    By age eight the well-nourished black children had IQs that
    averaged over 20 points higher than their undernourished
    brethren-another remarkable demonstration of the influence
    of the importance of vitamins on health and intelligence.

  5. Another study found mothers who received vitamin
    supplements during pregnancy bore children with higher IQs
    than those who did not.

  6. In a study by Dr. Michael Colgan of New Zealand, from
    1977 to 1979, he treated sixteen cases of children
    classified as hyperactive, minimally brain damaged, autistic
    or slow learners. All supplementation was individually
    designed. Toxic metals, allergies, and poor diets were
    treated too. Each case showed improvements in behavior, in
    school, at home, in motor coordination, reading skills and
    speech articulation. IQs improved almost 18 points on the
    average.

    The importance of vitamins on health proved to be the
    significant factor that, also, caused greater improvements
    in reading skills and emotional reactions than those not on
    the nutritional regimen.

  7. The nutritional status of the mother at conception is
    critical.     Studies of women giving birth during World War II
    found that women who conceived when near starvation were
    more likely to have babies with malformations than women at
    near-starvation when they delivered.

    This study indicates the importance of vitamins on health
    during conception.

  8. In a 1989 double blind study by Benton and Roberts,
    involving dosing normal children for eight months with
    moderate amounts of vitamins and minerals, it was found
    that non-verbal IQs increased from 111 to 119, a very
    significant increase. Non-verbal intelligence was thought
    to be innate, biological and unalterable until that time.
    An uproar resulted. For the complete story go to the following URL:
    http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0876/is_n52/ai_8542509

    The importance of vitamins on health and their affect on
    increasing normal IQs is vital information for all parents.

  9. Finally, in a large, well controlled child nutrition study,
    performed in 2000 by the University of California at
    Stanislaus,     245 American school children were given low
    dose vitamin and mineral tablets (50% of the minimum daily
    requirement) for only three months.

    The results, according to the study were as follows:


    • First, a significant difference of 2.5 IQ points (95%
      CI: 1.85-3.15) was found between 125 children given
      active tablets and 120 children given placebo tablets (p = 0.038).

    • Second, this finding is consistent with the mean 3.2 IQ
      point net gain found in the 12 similar but less rigorous
      studies.

    • Third, a significantly higher proportion of children in the
      active group gained 15 or more IQ points when compared
      to the placebo group (p < 0.01).

    • Fourth, although 81 matched pairs produced no
      difference at all in nonverbal IQ gain, the modest 2.5 IQ
      point net gain for the entire sample can be explained by
      the remaining 24 children who took active tablets, and had
      a 16 point higher net gain in IQ than the remaining 19
      placebo controls.

    • (The net gain of 16 IQ points for 24 children is
      astounding in only three months time. This difference is
      more than the difference that separates average
      intelligence from that of a doctor).

    • (Imagine what results might have been achieved if the
      research had continued for a year or more, instead of just
      3 months, or if the dosage had been equal to the optimal daily
      requirement)? This is yet another study indicating the
      importance of vitamins on health


  10. According to a study in the Journal of Child and
    Adolescent Psychopharmacology (2002;12:205–19), children
    prone to mood swings and outbursts of anger may benefit from
    taking a high potency multivitamin-multimineral. These
    findings suggest that increasing the intake of certain
    nutrients may help normalize brain function in children who
    display signs of altered brain chemistry.

    Link here for information on nutrition food and behavior.

  11. The critical importance of vitamins on healthy brain
    chemistry is well established.

  12. The vital importance of vitamins on health in early
    child nutrition cannot be emphasized enough.

    According to BabyCenter News:

    Women who take a daily multivitamin before and during
    pregnancy sharply reduce the likelihood that their children
    will develop leukemia, brain tumors and other forms of
    childhood cancer, according to new Canadian research.

    The startling finding that a cheap supplement purchased at
    the drugstore can prevent cancer as well as a range of
    birth defects adds weight to the theory that micronutrients
    have lifelong health benefits for the developing fetus. It
    also bolsters the case for having all women of child bearing
    age take multivitamins, particularly those rich in folic
    acid. (Note, the conclusions came from researching the
    results of seven other studies where pregnant women
    were supplemented during the first three months of
    pregnancy).

    Here are some important conclusions we can make from this
    research on the importance of vitamins on health on child
    nutrition:


    • We can manipulate our genes for the better by taking
      vitamins since vitamins, not only can compensate for missing
      genes, as in vitamin C deficiency and spina bifida, but they
      can repair damaged genetic material, like DNA, which
      contains the human genetic blueprint.

    • B-vitamins, in particular, repair damaged DNA. Famed
      Berkeley researcher, Dr. Bruce Ames, reported that more than
      50 genetically determined diseases can be treated with high
      dose vitamin therapy.

    • Many children's diseases, including several types of
      cancer could be prevented if mothers took a vitamin and
      mineral supplement prior to conception and all through
      pregnancy.

    • Well-nourished children have significantly higher IQs
      than undernourished children. In other words, poverty has a
      huge negative effect on IQ.

    • Improving child nutrition by supplementing brain damaged
      and mentally retarded children with vitamins/minerals and
      improving their diets can make a huge difference in their
      intelligence and behavior over a relatively short period of
      time, if initiated early on.

    • Improving child nutrition by giving, apparently, normal
      kids vitamins and minerals improves their mental functioning
      as well.The Benton and Roberts research indicates
      vitamins can have highly significant, positive genetic
      affects on normal children's intelligence.
    • Improving child nutrition by supplementing children with
      vitamins and minerals can improve behavior by normalizing
      altered brain chemistry. This would appear to hold great
      hope for ADHD and other such brain disorders.


How can vitamins have such a tremendous influence on our
genes? To simplify a bit: Genes exact their influence
through enzymes that control bodily chemical reactions.
Vitamins are simply coenzymes, that is to say, chemicals
that influence and enhance the function of enzymes.

Vitamins influence genes by affecting or enhancing the
enzymes produced from them. According to Dr. Donald B.
Jump, Ph.D., of Michigan State University, vitamins affect
geneticexpression. He writes:

We have known for many years that certain micronutrients,
like vitamins A and D, have dramatic effects on gene
expression....
The notion that macronutrients, or their metabolites,
might also affect gene expression is a new concept that has
emerged over the last decade. It is now clear that certain
macronutrients (or their metabolites) affect gene
expression and lead to changes in the abundance of key
proteins that function at critical steps in metabolic
pathways or control cell division or differentiation....


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