This Child Health day, we speak to Hippocrates co-director Anna Maria Clement about how lifestyle choices affect our vital health and wellbeing and the all-important future generations.

Q: What are the biggest problems with a typical child’s diet in the US?

A: Twenty-five years ago- for the first time in history – 12% of the youth generation in the US and developed countries endured chronic illness. Currently, over 50% of children are afflicted emotionally and physically with diseases presenting an overwhelming and untenable burden on the health care and economic system. Chemically latent non-foods containing disease-causing toxins are casually marketed and accepted worldwide. The consumption of these nutritionally deficient concoctions has resulted in 75% of the youth being overweight, obese, and morbidly obese – presenting health issues such as type II diabetes, autism, asthma, allergies, neurological problems, brain dysfunction, learning disorders, cardiovascular disease, and the number one killer of infants; cancer. It’s time for governments and their food and big pharma industry allies to be held accountable.

Q: How do we create good eating habits for children?

A: Parents who live in a “Food Addictive” way pass their unhealthy habits and lifestyles onto their children. The only way to ensure that children eat a diet full of clean and health-building food is for the parents to be a positive influence and example.

Q: Is it realistic to cut out sugar entirely?

A: Sugar is more addictive than heroin and cocaine, as explored in our book: ‘Sweet Disease.’ Sugar must be replaced with stevia and affirmatively removed from your children’s choices. Animal-based foods such as eggs, all dairy including yogurt, fish, chicken, turkey, and all poultry, including pork and red meats, should also be eliminated from the diet. These non-human “food” choices were never meant to be consumed by humans and are totally unnecessary in cultures that consume them. Starting children on this sickness cuisine will set them up for lifelong disorders.

Q: How can we support better food education?

A: When our schools partner with fast food companies – often with multi-million dollar contracts – it is profit first, not children. Although we call ourselves civilized, to prey on the pain and suffering of the youngest among us is proof that we may be significantly more uncivilized than our ancestors.It is not difficult to know how to remedy children’s disease and prevent it in the first place. A partnership must be forged globally between conscious parents to empower them to force the institutions we place our children in, to nurture them as precious beings and the future leaders they will become.

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I have read some articles that said the best thing a person can do for their health, wealth, the environment, their credit history, driving record, and, well, everything is to keep or buy the basic flip phone and go back to a natural way of living and just avoid all the fads and tech that have ruined people. My cousin is an audiologist and said no one should shove anything in or cover their ears with headphones unless they want to make her rich when they need hearing aids at age 45. But this is what I see all the kids doing these days. What do you think? —Anonymous

I wish it was as simple as going back to traditional lifestyle patterns. If you were to abandon the use of all modern technology, you would still be continuously enveloped by it, even in the most remote areas of the world. Actually, using these modern devices sparingly with protection like our HHI pulse and 360 electronic protection technology may emotionally and psychologically enhance your life versus isolating yourself from others. We cannot stop the advancement of technology, but we can protect ourselves with EMF blocking devices and rid ourselves of toxic overload by the use of far-infrared saunas, exercise, and detoxifying supplements. Audiologists are now telling us the earbuds and other devices not only potentiate cancer but are more problematic than being at a loud concert. I would concur with your cousin’s declaration. –BC

Hi Brian, is it safe for a type 1 diabetic to take Meltaway? Thank you. –Leigh

Meltaway in its new form will be helpful without impacting type 1 diabetes, either positively or negatively. Weight reduction is always helpful with both type 1 and type 2 diabetic conditions. –BC

I have been bruising easily for the last couple of years. I went to a doctor and all my bloodwork looks normal they say. I continue to bruise. What do you think this is? —Anonymous

Over time, we have established that slow circulation, lack of whole food D vitamin, and thinning of skin are the major contributors to bruising. Additionally, consuming certain pharmaceuticals like anti-coagulates and platelet-reducing meds have been linked to bruising. Proper diet (we of course suggest a plant based option), supplementation, movement, and exercise have been found to be helpful in limiting this concern. –BC

I know CBD oil is all the rage right now and it’s on every corner, but how do we know if it’s good quality and effective? —Anonymous

Here at Hippocrates, we have been using CBD oil for several years. We have, of course, done our due diligence and have selected only the best options with sound scientific research supporting them. I would strongly advise that you should request similar information from any of the manufacturers you are considering. –BC

Is it safe for children who deal with apparent anxiousness or are highly energetic, to the point where most pediatricians would diagnose them as ADHD, to take Soulera? —Anonymous

Soulera contains adaptogens which help to regulate rather than force blood chemistry. It also amplifies the CBD oil that it contains, making it 270 per-cent more absorbable. We have seen this able to assist children and adults in calming, stabilizing, and permitting the brain to work with further clarity. –BC

Currently, I am watching (and learning) from the Real Truth about Health conference that was held in New York. Thank you for taking the time to invest your efforts with teaching in the conference. You made mention of the body detoxing between 11pm and 11am and not to eat before that time frame was completed. Do you have a reference you could share for that? I’ve been telling people this for years but have nothing tangible to show.

Also, is there a reference on your website for research hounds such as me to tap into?

Thanks again, you are much appreciated. —Rhonda Koon, CNHP, CNM, LDHS

Review information on Circadian rhythms and digestive system function. Combine this data from both, which will result in the body pushing out debris between 11pm and 11am. You may also want to look at the work by Dr. Longo at USC on intermittent fasting and how eating at night is problematic. In regard to references, there is not one reservoir but a multitude of references in all of our books, offerings, website, etc. My academic series “Food IS Medicine” is three volumes of published research I referenced to support the dietary and health foundations of the Hippocrates dietary lifestyle. –BC

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Q: I have a new infrared sauna that I’ve been using for two weeks. I started at 95 degrees for 10 minutes, and now I’m at 100 degrees for 20 minutes. I have no major health issues, but my blood pressure hovers around 144/86 and I’m a 68-year-old female who takes no medications. I’m looking for suggested daily usage time and temperature. Thanks for the opportunity to ask a question. I appreciate and admire Hippocrates.

A: A quarter of a century ago, my colleague and friend, Dr. Coin, conducted a study on hyperthermia. He told me that it worked in the conquest of microbes and mutagens. What would be equally effective is spending time in an infrared sauna, daily. From that day forward, Anna Maria and I, no matter where we are in the world, spend a minimum of 20 minutes at a temperature up to 200 degrees Fahrenheit (93.33 Celsius) in a sauna or approximately 140 F (60 C) in an infrared sauna, most often after exercising. This is not only safe, but important, and I believe it is one of the many reasons I feel strong, healthy, and fi t as I’m moving soon into my seventh decade.

Q: With all the talk of gluten and how we need to rid our body from all forms, my holistic doctor still insists that wheatgrass should not be consumed. What is my argument that wheatgrass has no gluten? I know it has something to do with the sprouting. Does this mean I can eat any grain as long as it’s sprouted? Please clarify so I can show this to my doctor and also better understand it myself.

A: The best way to understand the difference between the living plant of wheatgrass and that of the neutered, cooked powder of wheat is to go back and restudy basic biology. When germinating this (staff of life), it breaks the gluten down to amino acids, rendering allergies irrelevant. This is the case with any grain, so as long as it is sprouted and then eaten raw there shouldn’t be any ill effects arising from any gluten concerns.

Q: I would like to understand more of the energy theories and frequencies of the body. Do you recommend a book that will help me to understand more of my body as an energy?

A: One of the books I’ll soon complete, “Quantum Human Biology,” will explain the importance of energy and its related frequencies. Until then, you could reference “Infinite Mind” by Dr. Valerie Hunt or “The Body Electric” by Robert O. Becker. My colleague and friend, the late Valerie Hunt, measured healthy cells at 75 Hz. All disease reduces these frequencies, making your cells and body vulnerable to illness and premature aging. Living, organic, plant-based foods are the core providers of the energy that maintains the fuel for the cell. Here at Hippocrates, we have an energy medicine department, where we utilize state-of-the-art electromagnetic and laser therapies, helping to expeditiously rekindle the protective “glow-factor” in and around healthy cells.

Q: My question is about scars and keloids. I keep on getting scars on any cuts and they turn into keloids with dark pigmentation around it. This never happened when I was younger; after the age of about 40, it started. I wonder if there are any defi ciencies involved or is there any treatment available to remove them. 

A: Scars, unfortunately, are quite common and actually block the meridians throughout the body from doing their essential work in maintaining superior health, so it is best if we can eliminate them. As we age, the body’s ability to prevent this tissue mutation lessens unless you maintain the highest-quality nutritional lifestyle. The use of systemic enzymes, deep and therapeutic body work, infrared saunas, and aerobic exercise all help dissolve these unwanted deviations.

Q: I am working with a nutritionist and had extensive food allergy testing done. I am shocked to be allergic to blue and green algae. Everything I have ever known of blue-green algae is that we all need it and that products like E3Live and Chlorella, which I have been taking for years, are good for everyone. Should I not take these anymore since I have tested positive on an allergy test?

A: The good news is that there is allergy testing. The bad news is, if you repeated it every day over a five-day period, you would find different results consistently. The current technology is more of a biochemical snapshot of that moment rather than an historic indicator that can be trusted. For this very reason, I generally have steered away from using this tool and worked more so with people who are willing and able to catalogue the wide variety of food they ingest as well as the environment within which they reside. From this, we can concretely establish what they are reacting to in their fare as well as particulates within their surroundings, and regrettably, today’s invisible electromagnetic smog is the biggest culprit in this matter of reactive concerns. Algae is rarely considered an allergen. Over the past half-century, I can recall only three or four people who truly reacted poorly to this predigested power food.

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Brian Clement PhD, LN Co-director of Hippocrates Wellness

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