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When I was young I was very fortunate to have excellent health. This was due to my parents who provided healthy whole foods and very little in the way of sweets or junk. They also kept me busy with chores and encouraged exercise.
As I got older I decided I wanted to be like every one else. I deviated from the wellness my parents taught me. The results were: my weight went up, my health went down, and I developed illness and low blood sugar.
I didn’t like how I was affected. I finally was able to get back on tract with a wellness lifestyle. Guess what, parents really do know best.
Recently I read an article about a nutritional effect in a Wisconsin Alternative School system. This program was implemented by Barbara and Paul Stitt, former owners of Natural Ovens Bakery in Manitowoc, Wisc.
I was very fortunate to get an extensive interview with Barbara. I learned much and I hope to bring you every drop of what I learned from her.
Barbara didn’t have a great start like I did. She was very unhealthy when she was young. There were several ‘diagnoses’, but finally with reading a book, “Look Younger & Live Longer” by Gaylord Hauser, she realized it was basically her diet that was causing the problems.
She followed the suggestions in Hauser’s book and within three months all of the debilitating symptoms had disappeared. She was able to get well. Then, by using this same material in her work as Chief Probation Officer she helped so many others and assisted the majority of those she worked with, over 80 percent, to be able to lead good, clean crime free lives with an actual future before them.
Barbara Stitt’s success was so outstanding it was written up in the Wall Street Journal.
In other words Barbara Stitt showed beyond a shadow of a doubt that food and nutrition had an effect on either wellness or illness and thus behavior.
Barbara Reed Stitt’s (PhD) life has been exemplary. She is a former Chief Probation officer, former president and co-owner of Natural Ovens Bakery (sold in 2007), the author of Food & Behavior-A Natural Connection; Nutritional Guidelines for Correcting Behavior, Impact of Fresh Healthy Foods on Learning and Behavior (DVD) and Roadmap to Healthy Foods in Schools. (This is a guide for schools to improve children’s lives, health and learning ability.) I’d say she has quite a legacy behind her, and she is still actively promoting healthy foods and good nutrition in schools.
When I was young I was very fortunate to have excellent health. This was due to my parents who provided healthy whole foods and very little in the way of sweets or junk. They also kept me busy with chores and encouraged exercise.
As I got older I decided I wanted to be like every one else. I deviated from the wellness my parents taught me. The results were: my weight went up, my health went down, and I developed illness and low blood sugar.
I didn’t like how I was affected. I finally was able to get back on tract with a wellness lifestyle. Guess what, parents really do know best.
Recently I read an article about a nutritional effect in a Wisconsin Alternative School system. This program was implemented by Barbara and Paul Stitt, former owners of Natural Ovens Bakery in Manitowoc, Wisc.
I was very fortunate to get an extensive interview with Barbara. I learned much and I hope to bring you every drop of what I learned from her.
Barbara didn’t have a great start like I did. She was very unhealthy when she was young. There were several ‘diagnoses’, but finally with reading a book, “Look Younger & Live Longer” by Gaylord Hauser, she realized it was basically her diet that was causing the problems.
She followed the suggestions in Hauser’s book and within three months all of the debilitating symptoms had disappeared. She was able to get well. Then, by using this same material in her work as Chief Probation Officer she helped so many others and assisted the majority of those she worked with, over 80 percent, to be able to lead good, clean crime free lives with an actual future before them.
Barbara Stitt’s success was so outstanding it was written up in the Wall Street Journal.
In other words Barbara Stitt showed beyond a shadow of a doubt that food and nutrition had an effect on either wellness or illness and thus behavior.
Barbara Reed Stitt’s (PhD) life has been exemplary. She is a former Chief Probation officer, former president and co-owner of Natural Ovens Bakery (sold in 2007), the author of Food & Behavior-A Natural Connection; Nutritional Guidelines for Correcting Behavior, Impact of Fresh Healthy Foods on Learning and Behavior (DVD) and Roadmap to Healthy Foods in Schools. (This is a guide for schools to improve children’s lives, health and learning ability.) I’d say she has quite a legacy behind her, and she is still actively promoting healthy foods and good nutrition in schools.
One additional thing I would like to mention as I learned in her interview is she has just received a Lifetime Achievement award from the Community Addiction Recovery Association (CARA) in Sacramento, Calif. By applying the same formula in working with people with addictions, over a 10-year period of time they had an 87 percent success rate – providing a savings for the Sacramento County of $20,000,000. This did more than save money. The health and nutrition program also improved and saved lives.
Do you believe that eating healthy is not cost effective? Do you feel that it is too expensive? If so the people enjoying a successful outcome in good nutritional programs would differ with you. Evidently CARA does too. So do the schools and the children in the schools that have implemented the Stitt’s Nutritional program.
The Appleton, Wisc. Alternative School program is featured in the movie “Super Size Me”. The school’s administrator reported zero dropouts, expulsions, vandalism, drugs, weapons and suicides-after this program was implemented. That is a huge savings in money, but the saving is so much more than financial. Their students are healthier, happier and capable of focusing, learning and getting along better with their families, classmates and their teachers. Isn’t this what we want for our children?
Wow, do you think this just might help them to have a real future?
What does all this mean for you and your family? It means that no matter what your level of health and fitness at this time, you can improve or maintain it with nutritious healthy foods.
For information on how to put this program in your school please contact me and I will happily share that with you. Or I will be pleased to come speak and show the DVD entitled Impact of Fresh Healthy Foods on Learning and Behavior, by Barbara Stitt. My email is: AWellnessCoach@Gmail.com.
To say that I am proud of her achievements is a huge understatement.
Barbara Stitt’s life is so full of accomplishment I couldn’t get it all in this column, so there will be more to follow.
In the meantime remember this:
You and your loved ones are worth the time and effort of preparing and eating healthy foods
For the rest of the story including video:
http://www.squidoo.com/Barbara-Stitt-Food-Behavior
(Carmel Aaron lives in Heber Springs, has a degree in biology and has been certified by Proevity in Nutrition and Glycemic Indexing. She is a former certified fitness. instructor. She owns and operates Anatomy Academy Wellness, where she teaches a Certified Diet Wellness Coaching program as a GKCC. To get in touch with Carmel email: AWellnessCoach@Gmail.com.)
