Peter:
>Until the digestion is back to full strength, I would low-heat steam
>the vegetables and make them into a mush and make fresh juice from them
>as well. Giving your child the vegetables in their raw and whole form
>will act as an irritant and prolong the healing of the intestines which
>is important for the full absorption of nutrients and to prevent the
>occurrence of leaky gut syndrome and fungi such as candida albicans
>from taking over.
..
>I would give my child raw, homemade kefir, along with probiotics and
>FOS.

You sound like cooked parents when their children are sick. :-(
Steamed vegetables and milk/dairy for sick children, in other words,
things, that would (in my oppinion of course) make a healthy child
sick? No way.
Raw nutrition is nice as long as nothing remarkable happens, isn't it
Peter? And if there are problems you are quickly returning to cooked
foods. Pooooooh!

The instinct of a child should be able to select the foods that are
best suited for curing health problems. The biggest deal is to provide
the child with instincto-quality foods.
And of course instinctive nutrition is 100% raw and does not contain
milk, dairy and wheat. See the archives, Moira, for more about instinc-
tive nutrition.
Potatos on the other hand are allowed. I don't know why you classify
them as grain. They are simply a vegetable.

Moira:
>We are on a "caveman" type of diet, meat, fish, veggies, very limited
>fruit.

You didn't write if this is a raw diet. Since you are also on the paleo-
food-list I assume that the "caveman"-diet is something like
"Neanderthin", therefore mostly cooked, except for the fruits.

Moira:
>My son does not absorb food very well, his food is partly undigested in
>his stools.

I wouldn't worry about that if it happens on instinctive nutrition.
But on other diets you always have the problem that his body doesn't get
the nutrients it wants    a n d    gets nutrients it does not want.
The latter could be the cause for your observations of undigested food.

People with candida were cured at the Chateau de Montrame in France by
instinctive nutrition and 100% instincto-quality foods. Since I don't
know a case personally this is third hand information.
On the other hand it sounds logical if instinctos claim, that candida
is fed by denatured sugars and disappears if the host omits them.

Best raw instinctive regards,

Stefan
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