Only a Mother Knows. . . .

how it feels when your child is ill. If the illness is life threatening, we all feel the pain. Maintaining a child's strength and health is never more critical than when battling a disease. Yet often the treatment can be as devastating as the disease. Making it difficult to take in nourishment so that their bodies stay bolstered for the fight.

Many foods provide needed nutrients, and certain "functional" foods work extra by providing health promoting and disease preventing elements. These foods typically will not cure the disease but they go hand in hand with medicine by keeping the body strong and up for the fight.

I wanted to offer something that might be helpful to anyone going through this kind of difficult time. I reference a website that was created by a mother whose desire to understand optimal health was born out of a friend being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and a young daughter with allergies. The site is lilpeepsnutrition.com. You will see that it is designed with the focus on kids health products. She has recently had her Lil Peeps Whey Protein Powder approved for sale in Whole Foods. It can also be ordered on line. It is free of chemicals, preservatives, refined sugar, etc. and please take the time to read the many health benefits of whey protein. Another source of information on whey protein is my April 25 blog.

To this protein powder you can add so many functional foods for a delicious shake that might very well go down easy when the typical meal will not:

Blueberries
Strawberries
Yogurt
Bananas
Organic raw honey
Even a handful of spinach (with all the other ingredients you will never know it's there!)
Cocoa

If any readers of my blog are going through or have gone through caring for a loved one as they battled treatments such as chemotherapy or radiation please comment with any recipes or products that eased the pain or strengthened the body and soul of the child or the parent.