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... and wheat?
DH and I are on the quest for a (budget friendly) kid's vitamin for our two oldest kids. DD1 has a wheat allergy and we avoid phenylalanine as best we can. We thought we found a vitamin that met our needs but alas it has phenylalanine in it.
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This is what we use. No artificial colors or flavors, gluten free and no cancer worries. It's fairly difficult to find a children's vitamin with Chromium also (which helps with blood sugar regulation and the metabolizing of carbs, fats and proteins). FWIW: I also supplement with a high quality cod liver oil...
I buy from Amazon. It's about $11 for 120 tablets: serving size is 2 tablets.
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Now I'm curious ;)
What is the concern about phenylalanine?
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CatholicMommy wrote:
Now I'm curious ;)
What is the concern about phenylalanine?
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For the general public, it's okay in moderation. But as with all things, too much of it is bad. 
(50% aspartame. Neurotoxin. Especially a problem for children prone to ADD/ADHD and/or sleepless nights...)
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Thanks Ellie! DD is definitely in the sleepless nights category, and she functions way better without phenylalanine.
Ellie, may I ask why you supplement with cod liver oil? I haven't had a chance to show DH your links but thank you! I was beginning to think I was asking for something impossible!
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Cod liver oil... oh the glory!
Skin. Bones. Teeth. Joints. Mood Management. Brain and Nervous System. Especially great for children and pregnant women. Excellent source of essential fatty acids and Vitamin D.
Google up Cod Liver Oil Benefits...
The Weston Price Foundation is one of the big proponents of cod liver oil (they promote especially FERMENTED cod liver oil because the vitamins are naturally occuring and there is better solubility all around. I can't afford fermented cod liver oil and there's no way my dh would take it not in a capsule form, so we settle for second best: Carlson's.) used especially with a high quality butter oil. We don't regularly consume butter oil... but there are stories of people healing dental cavities with this combination. Seriously. I started reading the seemingly boring titled book Nutrition and Physical Degeneration and was blown away...
America's health problems aren't just in all the processed junk foods we are eating... it's also precisely in what we're NOT eating. (Mostly, the right kinds of fats) So cod liver oil is one tiny step in that direction for my family. It's also one of my front line defenders against any kind of illness that makes its way into the home.
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After reading your subject line, I hurried to my vitamins. We use Lil Critters gummy vitamins which do not have your ingredient worries.
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The aspartame convinced me! I am not happy with the results of that stuff in children AT ALL - not to mention myself! I am becoming more sensitive to that kind of stuff as I get older, but I've not had the time to delve into where it is all hiding!
I wonder if it's not that I'm becoming more sensitive, as that I'm becoming more aware of specific reactions i have always had.... ?
Thanks for the heads-up!
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Thanks Ellie! I'll have do some big time googling, I think. My DH has a degree in chemistry so he's all about how specific things break down and what they're made out of, etc. He mentioned formaldehyde with the phenylalanine as one of the reasons why we avoid it.
I was blissfully ignorant about all this stuff, then I met and married DH. There's been a lot of changing in my diet! 
And thanks Jennifer for letting me know the brand you use. It's nice to have options! 
CatholicMommy, I would be interested to know if you are getting more sensitive or just more aware. My mom recently cut wayyy back on aspartame and she says she feels a lot better (she has Parkinson's) and has lost weight to boot!
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CatholicMommy, I would be interested to know if you are getting more sensitive or just more aware. My mom recently cut wayyy back on aspartame and she says she feels a lot better (she has Parkinson's) and has lost weight to boot! |
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It might be a combination of both, but it is definitely a higher awareness. For example, HFCS in the week leading up to the monthly stuff, is BAD for me. TINY amounts the rest of the month are "ok" - but if I have too much (such as stuffing made with bread that has HFCS in it, with Thanksgiving dinner), I will feel extremely fatigued. I could not figure out 2 years ago why I was feeling so funny at Thanksgiving; then I found out the bread I had used to make homemade stuffing (because all the boxes listed HFCS), had HFCS in it - I had grabbed the WRONG loaf of bread! It looked just like Aunt Millie's.
The year before that, for Advent, we started the Nativity Fast - NO dairy except on Sundays for 7 weeks. Not once did I have my usual mid-morning stomach-ache. Afterward, go back to milk and dairy with breakfast, and stomachaches. I can have smaller quantities of organic milk and be fine - so there is something about the non-organic milk - it's not just lactose.
Get away from almost all food colorings for several months - don't necessarily notice anything - but then have a snack bag of m&ms. Back of my throat is hot, my head feels funny - and I recognize the same feeling I used to feel so many years ago when I would eat those "medium" size bag of peanut butter m&ms, by the bagful.
I ate healthier the year I was live-in on the east coast - and I had MUCH less problems with monthly cycles and fatigue. Didn't notice the difference until I moved back home and went back to my typical diet.
So sometimes for me, it is noticing things after the fact.
I discovered issues with the artificial sweeteners after discovering the issues with HFCS - and during the time I was focusing on what TO eat, rather than what to avoid (essential oils, fatty acids, that sort of thing). I don't necessarily note a particular reaction to any particular artificial sweetener, but i also avoid it like the plague because of the HFCS issue. I've never been one to worry about what kind of sugar I am eating, so I have always been a-ok with real sugar - and I DON'T react to it.
And yes, I've done the blind testing with the HFCS and real sugars - several times. I can tell the difference within minutes if it is the last week of the month even in tiny quantities.
All anecdotal - but that's all I have to go on ;)
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