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Do your kids seem to always be sick? Stuffy or runny noses, sore throats, and earaches are common among kids, but if it’s happening to your kids much more than other kids, maybe it’s not a virus at fault.
Look at the Family Diet
Diets that contain a lot of dairy products may be putting families at risk. Numerous studies have shown that dairy products cause a host of health problems: excess phlegm, runny noses, constipation, chronic earaches, asthma, and bronchitis, to name a few. Conditions which many parents consider to be “just part of being a kid” are actually preventable by just eliminating dairy from the diet.
The Science Behind the Sickness
Why do our bodies react they way they do to dairy? One theory is that our immune systems are fooled into thinking that our bodies are under attack. The introduction of a foreign animal’s protein into our systems causes our immune systems to react protectively by producing extra phlegm. In other words, the body knows that cow milk doesn’t belong there. It rejects the milk and signals the nasal and throat membranes to produce all of the mucus necessary to get rid of the foreign substance.
The Healthier Option
There are so many good reasons for switching from dairy to soy. Your family’s health is probably the best reason of them all. It’s not difficult to avoid - or at least reduce - the common health problems of childhood when you make the healthy switch to soy.