Pantry Paratus Radio, Episode 025: Interview with Penny Kane from PennyKane.ca
Elimination diet, food sensitivities and chemical free living
Today we chat with Penny Kane from North of the border in Canada. We originally met Penny when we both received the same response to separate blogs we posted about carrageenan—and we hit it off from there. Actually, you may find that you have a lot in common with Penny as you hear her talk about a Mom’s role in eliminating the numerous sources for ingredients that aggravate food sensitivities in children. Every Mom wants to do the best for her children, so pull up a chair as I get a great education on the common pitfalls for a kid’s diet in our industrial food chain.
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We talk about:
-How Penny got started in nutritious eating and healthy living
-When your kids are allergic to everything
-My Soul’s Role (PennyKane.ca) is a one-stop-resource for Mom’s looking for the straight scoop on how to cope with kids who have food sensitivities
-Penny has a forum for Moms to come together
-What does Penny mean by “chemical free kitchen”
-Learning to ask “why” with food, nutrition and the links between poor food and poor health
-Nexus between chemicals in the food system and illness
-Common food sensitivities—everyone is different: Dairy, Sugar, Wheat and Corn
-Connection between pasteurized milk and chronic ear infections in some kids
-Parents have to do their own research to find the “triggers”
-Peanut allergies, they seem to be more common—why?
-Cotton is heavily sprayed with pesticides and peanuts are rotated into the same field as the cotton
-Good thing we do not eat cotton . . . or do we? Check the source for cellulose gum on your ingredients label
-WWGE? What Would Grandma Eat?
-“GMO is food designed in a lab.”
-There does not seem to be adequate proof that the GMO foods are safe for human consumptions and the studies performed on animals are certainly not comforting
-Mom’s have the veto power when it comes to accepting the food status quo—yes, we do!
-GMO labeling battle North of the border in Canada
-The organic labeling process is very expensive and time consuming for the farmer; however organic labeling is the only way to be sure that the produce you are picking up is non-GMO
-Stanford study (link below) saying that organic food is not necessarily more nutritious—but only one is clearly not GMO and does not have pesticide
-Money and how it effects scientific studies, lobbying efforts and ballet initiatives like Prop 37 in California
-Many of the small organic brands have been bought out and are now wholly owned subsidiaries of the big food processing corporations
-“natural” descriptors on food
-BPA’s in plastics and in the food supply. BPA is a synthetic estrogen, and is often called a “gender bender”
-BPA’s are a known health concern even in utero
-Even if you have multiple food containers with “small amounts” each, they all add up to a known health concern
-Where to cut BPA out of the house: water bottles, plastic food containers, canned foods, etc.
-Identifying food sensitivities in children and how you break the news to your kids that you are trying an elimination diet. The hardest sell may be with you as the parent; however, they look up to you and trust you for their life
–Food Semantics: The art of getting your kid to eat that
-Resisting the temptation to sneak healthy food in your kids food—and why
-Getting your kids to eat healthy food when you are not around start by getting them to eat good food in plain sight when you are around
-When you have all of these changes to make, where do you start? “You pick one.”
-Make sure that you become label literate
-All parents are trying to their best; some are just more informed than others
-Dietary changes need to be supported by your whole family. Dietary changes for the children may have positive ripple effects for you as well or vice versa
-What is the worst thing that can happen? You live with less chemicals?
-Making the announcement that you are trying an elimination diet . . . to your doctor and then bracing yourself for the potential pushback
-The food supply is so drastically different from anything we have seen in history ever before
-“At the end of the day, it is a tweak in diet. It is not like you are administering a vaccine.”
-Packing your kid’s lunch for school is a big topic for Penny because the children are outside of the home and outside of your care—Penny has a whole section of her website devoted to healthy kid’s lunches: check it out!
-wrap up with Penny Kane
Links:
MySoulsRole.com (now PennyKane.ca)
Food Alliance Certification for food
Penny’s blogpost: Why are there so many peanut allergies?
Stanford School of Medicine study on organic vegetables
BPA free initiatives from Ziploc®
Chaya’s blogpost: The art of getting your kid to eat that
Penny has a whole tab category on kid’s lunches: Check it out!
Penny’s blogpost: How I got my daughter to eat cauliflower
Wilson’s blogpost: Carrageenan, the Dark Side of Chocolate Milk
Proviso:
Nothing in this blog constitutes medical advice. You should consult your own physician before making any dietary changes. Statements in this blog may or may not be congruent with current USDA or FDA guidance.
