Thrive Nutrition Practice: The Antidote to Sugar
It struck me this morning that children have hangovers too....
Sugar hangovers.
Yesterday was my daughter's birthday party. And whilst the menu was about as grain-free, refined sugar free as could possibly be, we all still had a healthy sugar overdose from the birthday cake, almond-meal chocolate chip cookies, popcorn and delicious date-sweetened pomegranate-lime juice.
So, today the girls have been....hmmm....what's the word?
Petulant? Annoying? Incapable of independent play? Groggy? Unreasonable?
I could go on but I've got to put dinner on.
The centrepiece for dinner tonight is going to be CHICKEN BROTH.
Sugar depletes our body of minerals like calcium & magnesium.
And broth is an extremely cost-efficient and delicious way of re-mineralizing our body with these minerals and many more. It also can help give your child a much needed immunity boost, which is also needed after a sugar overdose.
The benefits of chicken broth never cease to amaze me:
- When cooked, chicken releases an amino acid called cysteine, which helps to breakdown proteins found in the mucous that settles in the lungs.
- Cysteine converts to glutathione, a very powerful antioxidant, that not only protects your from the negative effects of free radicals -- it also carries nutrients to your immune system cells.
- Carrots, one of the typical vegetable ingredients found in chicken soup, are the best natural source of beta-carotene, the precursor for Vitamin A. Vitamin A helps fight off infections by giving your white blood cells a boost.
- Chicken broth also contains loads of minerals in a form the body can absorb easily—e.g. calcium, magnesium, phosphorus, silicon, sulphur and trace minerals.
Sounds like a superfood?
You bet! Here's the recipe:
- 800g hormone-free chicken feet or other cheap joints
- 2 carrots
- 1 onion
- 2 celery stalks
- 2 tbspns unpasteurized apple cider
- knob of ginger
- 1/2 tspn pepper
- bunch of parsley
- 6 garlic cloves
- 2L water approx.
- bit of salt & pepper
Put it all in a pot and let boil for 24 hrs. I usually do it in two 12 hour stints.
CHICKEN BROTH
THE ULTIMATE SUGAR HANGOVER CURE.
Don't head into birthday party season without it.
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