Eclectic City

Unfortunately, refined, fast, and junk food is becoming easier and easier for children to buy and consume. Vending machines offer candy bars, sugar-filled soft drinks, and snack foods loaded with fat and salt to children in both grade schools and high schools. Many school cafeterias also sell fast-food to children for lunch every day. It seems as if nutritionally lacking snacks and soft drinks are sure to be available everywhere children go and gather. Parents who are determined to fight this disturbing trend are seeking solutions everywhere to help their children get their needed nutrition. One answer they are finding is supplemental multivitamins, many of which are formulated especially for children. There are superior multivitamins and exceptional immune boosting products that actually taste great.

Because there is so much variability in the food we prepare, even the most nutritionally vigilant parent cannot be absolutely certain as to what nutrients are in the food they serve to their children. For example, fat-soluble vitamins can withstand normal cooking, but vitamins A and E are destroyed gradually as they are exposed to air. Similarly, water-soluble vitamins including B1, B6, folic acid, and pantothenic acid are destroyed by heat. Vitamin B2 is destroyed by light and heat and vitamin C is destroyed by light and air. Some food preservatives and preparation methods can destroy the vitamins in food. Even more, raw fruit and vegetables that are grown in a way that does not promote nutrient content can be lacking nutrients. There are also those crazy food phases that all children seem to go through. Although these phases are generally harmless, there are exceptions.
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