Todayâs diets often lack the nutrition kids need to grow and thrive. Many children eat ultra-processed foods high in salt, sugar, and unhealthy fats, which can cause gaps in their health and learning. For expectant mothers, these gaps can affect a babyâs brain development.
Eating too much junk food during pregnancy can shape childrenâs habits, making them crave sugary and fatty foods (1). It can also impact their memory, mood, and focus.
Even mild iodine deficiencies during pregnancy can knock several points off the IQs of the resulting children (5).
Research shows nutritional gaps can affect childrenâs learning, their health, and long-term predisposition to obesity (2), while trials on a high fat diet showed concentration and speed of recall deteriorated (3).
Sugar has long been suspected of exacerbating some mood and behaviour problems. Now rates of disorders such as autism, ADHD, depression and anxiety, and anti-social behaviour are escalating at an alarming rate.
Thatâs why itâs so important our children are provided foods rich in nutrients like iodine, Omega-3, Omega-6, and antioxidants, which are all vital for healthy growth and development.
SeagreensÂŽ makes it easy to fill nutritional gaps by simply adding this different food to your daily diet. Eating a wide variety of foods is vitally important. In Your Brain on Food, Brenda Patoine noted that ânutrients in isolation may not be as effective as when they are interacting with other nutrients in whole foodsâ and that âa brain-healthy diet (involves) consuming a variety of natural foods that have undergone the fewest alterationsâ (4).
This balance and incredible breadth of micronutrients... minerals, vitamins and anti-oxidants, Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids, polyphenols and phytonutrients... makes Seagreens a whole food like no other.
SeagreensÂŽ is simple to use. Add the Culinary Ingredient to simple meals like baked beans or family dinners, or take the Iodine Lite+ Capsules for an effortless daily boost. With SeagreensÂŽ, youâre giving your family natural, wholesome nutrition to support their health at every stage of life.
(1) Spencer, et al.: NPJ Science of Food, 2017
(2) Miller & Spencer: Brain, Behaviour & Immunity, 2014
(3) Holloway, et al.: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2011
(4) Patoine: Cerebrum Dana Foundation, 2021
(5) Melse-Boonstra A, Jaiswal N. Iodine deficiency in pregnancy, infancy and childhood and its consequences for brain development. Best Pract Res Clin Endocrinol Metab, 2010: 24(1):29-38.