Most medications are created to treat the symptoms of a particular ailment, not the cause. Often modern medical practice fails to allot enough time to find out why you have a particular ailment. Instead, they prescribe one or more drugs that will take away or bury the symptoms.

This also applies to prescription medications for children.  

Did you ever notice how quick we, as a society, look for what’s wrong in the daily situations we find ourselves?  We have been raised to first look for or plan for the “worst” and “hope” for the best.  That way, if we get anything better we can be “thankful.”  Do you really need a reason to be thankful?  The same applies to people, especially children.  If they fail to behave in certain ways, they must have some type of disorder.  Why is it unacceptable for individuals to march to the beat of their own drum?  When did expressing creativity and imaginative thought become wrong?  Why is being energetic, instead of being a couch potato or a video game zombie, a bad thing?

When the media starts talking about the cold and flu season, where do your thoughts go? Are you checking your medicine cabinet for an array of over-the-counter medications? Are you on the phone with your primary care physician or the local drug store getting ready for a flu shot?

What if I told you that with a few simple steps and an overall change of mind, you could avoid all of the above? Would you believe me? It’s true.

Have you seen the commercial for corn syrup that compares it to regular sugar made from cane?  They are using actors to represent parents and children, so you are more likely to accept what they are saying.  The actor tells you that your body processes all sugars the same way, so it doesn’t matter which type of sweetener you use.  Let’s begin by addressing the three types of sweeteners made from corn, and the processing each one goes through.