April 7, 2008
The link between food and school performance
Today I have chosen to introduce you to a lady who has brought her business focus, here in Switzerland, to an area that is bound to become increasingly critical: the link between food and children’s learning abilities and performance at school. This concept has not yet become a key topic yet children’s learning difficulties are spreading, not to mention problems of health, weight and social integration. Our lifestyle may in fact be responsible for some of these issues. In any event, some experts have decided to look at this closely, so let’s listen to what Swiss resident and British national Karin Roten has to say on the subject:
“I am the mother of two young girls aged 6 and 3 and a half. Since the age of 20, I have experienced different diets, from Kousmine to vegetarian, through blood type diets, carbs diet, no additives diet, and now I am on to raw and living foods. I have acquired useful knowledge in each of these concepts and my objective is to share this with other parents. In our home we have quickly noticed a change in the children’s behavior following what they eat. Even my husband has noticed a difference in his mental clarity and ability to concentrate!
For the past 18 years, I have been a holistic speech and language therapist. 
And for 10 years now I have been focusing on the link between food and learning abilities/behaviors. This link has now been clearly demonstrated by various research studies, most of which are only available in English.
I have come to create the term holistic speech therapy, which aims to look at children as whole individuals and help them on the physcial level through food, on the mental and emotional levels through EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques), even on the spiritual level by using the essences of flowers and minerals. My goal is to allow children to learn.
To implement all this, I created a website a year ago: www.apprendrecestgenial.ch (”learning is cool” — Note from the editor: this site has become www.thefreechild.com in 2009) which aims to offer advice and tools to parents and children to enable the entire family to grow together. Indeed, when a child is showing some kind of difficulty, it is an opportunity for everyone in the household to learn and grow!
New class as of February 2008: Read well, think well and eat well! Or how to efficiently help your children perform at school through healthy food that best responds to their needs. To find out more, click here.”
