And the last, most important part of this article – Ways to help your child achieve optimal health and body weight without drugs! This is a must read!! If you TRULY love your child you will do the following!

The Hidden Truth: Why Government Wants Your Kids on Cholesterol Drugs…

Top 10 Ways to Help Your Child Achieve Optimal Health and Body Weight — Without Drugs

While prescription of a cholesterol-lowering medication may be warranted in a few rare cases, 99 times out of 100, hyperlipidemia and hypercholesterolemia can be corrected with some simple lifestyle changes.

Here are my top 10 recommendations:

* Eliminate all sodas and fruit juices.
* If your child is already overweight or obese it is particularly important to lower their total fructose intake, INCLUDING fruit, until their weight normalizes. It would also be helpful to severely limit grains, even apparently healthy ones like whole organic grains, until their weight normalizes.
* Help your child get regular exercise.
* Prepare the right foods for your child’s nutritional type. I now offer the full nutritional typing program free of charge.
* Encourage your child to eat a good portion of her food raw.
* Make sure your child is getting plenty of high-quality, animal-based omega3-fats. My favorite is krill oil.
* Introduce your child to a variety of heart-healthy foods such as olive oil, coconut and coconut oil, organic raw dairy products and eggs, avocados, raw nuts and seeds, and organic grass-fed meats that fit within her nutritional type guidelines.
* Introduce your child to strategies that help her address emotional challenges, such as EFT.
* Make sure your child gets plenty of restorative sleep.
* Finally, make sure your child’s vitamin D levels are within therapeutic levels.
* Vitamin D is not “just a vitamin,” but rather the only known substrate for a potent, pleiotropic (meaning it produces multiple effects), repair- and maintenance hormone that serves multiple gene-regulatory functions in your child’s body.

Low levels of vitamin D are associated with an increased risk of heart disease.

About 70 percent of U.S. children have inadequate levels of vitamin D, so this should be one of the first issues you address to keep your child’s heart healthy.

A Call to Action for the Sake of ALL Children

The Alliance for Natural Health has an on-line “action alert” letter you can send to your Congressional representatives about repealing the law that allows drug companies to extend their patents by testing drugs on children.

It is quick and easy to do! Just click here.

If you care about this issue, I encourage you to take a moment to let your rep’s know how you feel.

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