The importance of your diet in fighting scoliosis!

The importance of your diet in fighting scoliosis!

Written By: Aatif Siddiqui D.C.

Scoliosis is a lateral curvature of the spine that affects much adolescence today. If there is a family history of scoliosis the likelihood of your child getting scoliosis is very high. In today’s world we now have a genetic test called scolioscore that can help to determine the probability of progression once your child has scoliosis. There are other factors that are related to ones scoliosis getting worse or even triggering it and that is diet.

Have you heard you are what you eat? Well it is true! Your body uses the proteins fats and carbs that you eat to build your body. Why is this important? Well garbage in garbage out. I believe one of the major issues why scoliosis is so prevalent now a days is because the quality of the food we eat is so poor. IN part due to dual income generating homes to support a greater cost of living, today’s dinner tables are plagued with convenient, fast-food, processed food. This is because both parents are working just to make ends meet and there is no times to prepare a good quality meal. But lets say you are more fortunate and one of the parents can stay home to cook good meals, well it is nearly impossible to find quality ingredients. Farming today is different than years ago. Hence, fruits, vegetables and meats different — nutrient deficient and worse and toxic. The label ‘organic’ means less and less each day. Consider strawberries fro instance, ‘organic’ strawberries are still sprayed with pesticides a few times. Organic beef can still be grain fed or grass fed and grain finished. Grain finished is still no good because it means the last 30% of there life they ate grain. Grain is not the diet of a cow nor is corn the diet of a chicken. Free-range chickens does not mean they spent their life out doors peck for worms and grubs, this is their diet. What happens the food is toxic or of poor quality. Then you feed this toxic food to a child that has the scoliosis gene and the body cant fight the gene, but this goes with any of the diseases that they trace back to some genetic trait.

Key things are to stay away from fast food sodas sugary drink. Also make sure to feed your child organic fruits and vegetables ideally from a local farm that you know or is well regarded. When it comes to beef make sure it is grass fed and grass finished. Ensure dairy and eggs, a great source of protein, come from cows and chickens, respectively, that are free-roaming and grass fed and grass finished. Chickens should be true free range living most of their life outside not stuck in a coup. Choose water is your drink choice. Consider doing food allergy, heavy metal, and neurotransmitter test. Avoid foods that trigger allergies or sensitivities. All of this compromise the immune system. Supplements in today’s world I think are necessary also to make up for the vitamins you can not get from the food you are presently giving to your child. Always consult with your Doctor as my opinions are merely my opinions.

copied and pasted from Treating Scoliosis