These 'Health Foods' Are Destroying Our Children's Future

Summary

In this eye-opening video by Sally K Norton, we explore how certain "health foods" might be doing more harm than good, particularly for our children. Through three compelling family stories, the video uncovers the hidden dangers of oxalates, present in many popular superfoods like spinach and sweet potatoes. These compounds can bind to minerals and lead to a variety of health issues, including calcification in placentas, skin conditions, and neurological problems. Sally emphasizes the importance of understanding the long-term impacts of our dietary choices and encourages reconsideration of what is truly "healthy."

Highlights

• Three families share their unexpected health struggles due to supposedly 'healthy' superfoods. 🤕🥦
• Discover the hidden hazards of oxalates, found in popular health foods like spinach and almonds. 🔍🥗
• Oxalates can cause calcification in placentas and other health problems—watch out! 🚨🤰
• Learn how dietary changes can have a significant impact, even years down the line. ⏳🥕
• The video emphasizes questioning dietary norms for your family's health and safety. 🏠🛡️

Key Takeaways

• Superfoods might not be so super! Oxalates in foods like spinach and almonds can cause health issues. 🥬🚫
• The connection between diet and health complications is often overlooked—be cautious! 🧐
• Oxalates can lead to pregnancy complications like calcified placentas—surprising but crucial to know! 🤰💡
• Children can suffer from hidden dietary dangers—awareness is key to prevention. 👶🔍
• Always be curious and question the status quo when it comes to health and nutrition. 🤔🔄

Overview

Sally K Norton kicks off the video by sharing three startling family stories. Each tale reveals unexpected health troubles linked to adored superfoods, challenging the nutritional status quo. Sally, a health professional, shares her journey of discovering dietary toxicity, urging viewers to reevaluate what they consider healthy.

As Tracy recounts her daughter's birth, she highlights a scary instance of a calcified placenta—linked to a superfood-rich, low-carb diet. This moment serves as a stark reminder of how even dietitians might miss crucial connections between diet and health issues, specifically oxalate-related complications.

Ben, a chiropractor, also discovered the hidden dangers of oxalates through his family's experiences. He connects his daughter’s unexplained pain and behavioral shifts to oxalate-rich foods, stressing that even health professionals aren't immune to dietary misconceptions. Sally's work shines a light on oxalate's overlooked hazards, urging a deeper understanding and consideration of dietary impacts.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 00:30: Introduction In the 'Introduction' chapter, the author, Sally K. Norton, discusses the potential unintended consequences of parents striving for ideal nutrition for their children. Norton, with her background in nutrition and public health, presents three stories illustrating how certain foods, often deemed the healthiest, may actually disadvantage children.
• 00:30 - 01:00: Sally's Research Inspiration In the chapter titled 'Sally's Research Inspiration', Sally recounts how her personal health struggles with pain and fatigue, which lasted for decades, drove her to research an unexpected dietary toxicity. Despite her reliance on a healthy, home-cooked diet, she discovered that her food choices were causing her ailments. This realization prompted her years of research into dietary causes of health issues. The chapter also introduces the stories of three different families who faced similar challenges, where healthy eating led to unexpected health problems in their children, including the unusual occurrence of calcified placentas.
• 01:00 - 01:30: Unexpected Problems Due to Superfoods Families experienced a range of issues such as pain, behavioral problems, and skin conditions after consuming popular superfoods. Despite these foods being considered nutritious and antioxidant-rich, they seemed to cause unexpected health issues. This chapter explores how these families linked their trusted foods to puzzling outcomes, highlighting potential hidden dangers in many widely accepted healthy superfoods, possibly shifting perceptions of healthy eating.
• 01:30 - 03:00: Tracy's Story: Crisis During Birth The chapter titled 'Tracy's Story: Crisis During Birth' discusses the unexpected health crisis that occurred during Tracy's daughter's childbirth. Tracy, who has a background of health challenges including kidney stones, advised her pregnant daughter to follow a low-carb superfood diet. Unfortunately, this recommendation inadvertently contributed to complications during the birth. Tracy shares her journey towards finding better health solutions, influenced by her own medical experiences.
• 03:00 - 04:00: Tracy's Realization About Oxalates Tracy discusses her journey through various dietary choices, including adopting the keto diet before it became popular. She consumed a lot of almonds, spinach, and home-grown rhubarb, believing these low-carbohydrate foods were beneficial for her health. Additionally, Tracy shares her role as a birth doula, highlighting her experience with her eldest daughter who, a year prior, had a baby and was diagnosed with gestational diabetes. Tracy intervened by imposing a strict dietary regimen to help manage her daughter's condition and prevent the need for insulin. Through this experience, she realized the impact of oxalates present in these foods on health.
• 04:00 - 06:00: Ben's Story: Daughter's Vulvadenia and Oxalate Link Ben's Story: This chapter narrates the experiences of Ben and his daughter who suffers from Vulvadenia. The narrative explores their journey, especially focusing on the dietary choices they make to manage her condition. They adopt a keto diet, limiting her carb intake to under 25 grams a day, in a bid to control her condition and avoid insulin. However, despite their meticulous management and the inclusion of superfoods like almonds, they were unaware of the potential link between certain dietary choices and pregnancy complications. Tracy, with her background as a dietician interested in natural health, grappled with the unexpected connection between superfoods and the challenges faced.
• 11:00 - 17:00: Lily's Story: Calcified Placenta and Rash Lily, despite careful planning and a strict low carb diet, struggled with blood sugar management during her pregnancy, ultimately requiring insulin shots.
• 17:00 - 17:30: Conclusion: Raising Awareness The chapter titled 'Conclusion: Raising Awareness' discusses a medical emergency involving a prolapsed umbilical cord. The situation is described as highly emotional, with the mother and baby facing a 50/50 chance of survival. The prolapse is explained as a rare but serious condition where the umbilical cord descends through the cervix ahead of the baby, necessitating emergency intervention, specifically a C-section. The narrative captures the urgency and trauma associated with this life-threatening scenario.

These 'Health Foods' Are Destroying Our Children's Future Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 Could our children start their lives at a disadvantage because of the mistakes we're making with healthy foods? Here we present three stories of people harming their children with their quest for ideal nutrition. And the surprising culprit seems to be the foods we consider the healthiest. My name is Sally K. Norton, author and lifelong health professional. I studied nutrition and worked in medical universities in public health and holistic healing. My
• 00:30 - 01:00 personal experience is what inspired years of research that led me to specialize in an unexpected dietary toxicity. I struggled with pain and fatigue for many decades, never suspecting that my healthy home-cooked diet was the villain. Today you'll hear three different families with stories of healthy eating leading to unexpected problems for their children. In addition to witnessing calcified placentas, the children
• 01:00 - 01:30 experienced pain, behavioral problems, and skin conditions. These families were consuming popular superfoods yet suffered from problems. How did they connect the trusted foods to such puzzling outcomes? Stay with us to hear about the hidden dangers in many superfoods considered to be nutritious and antioxidant rich. These family stories could change the way you think about healthy eating. So, let's take a
• 01:30 - 02:00 listen. Initially, Tracy had no idea that the low carb superfood regimen that she recommended for her pregnant daughter would turn her daughter's birth experience into a lifethreatening crisis. My name is Tracy Bogs. I have been on this long journey of not the best health. I had my first kidney stone at 14 and that put me on a quest to find better solutions. And so I was always
• 02:00 - 02:30 open to new ideas. I was doing keto long before people were doing keto. I was an almond junkie. I was big on spinach and we grow rhubarb on our own little farm and all of these foods that I thought they were low carbohydrate and I was doing what I needed to do for my health. I'm also a birth doula. My oldest daughter had a baby a year ago December. She was a gestational diabetic. Of course, initially wanted to prevent her having to go on insulin. I took it upon myself and I put her on a very strict
• 02:30 - 03:00 keto diet. We had her under 25 grams of carb a day and we were really working hard to keep it under control so she didn't have to go on insulin. I was giving her every superfood. She was eating almonds. This was her life. Despite her years of experience as a dietician interested in natural health approaches, Tracy had no way of knowing about the connection between superfoods in the diet and pregnancy complications.
• 03:00 - 03:30 Even with our careful planning and strict low carb approach, her blood sugar readings weren't improving as we had hoped. So, she had to go on one insulin shot a day. Then she had to go on two. One afternoon, out of the blue, the doctor called and said, "Something's wrong. I need you to come to the hospital and we're probably going to have to induce." This was 2 weeks before her due date. We go to the hospital and they induce labor. Things are moving along great. All is well and the doctor comes in and checks her and says, "You
• 03:30 - 04:00 have a prolapse cord." were immediately going to the O. Very emotional as her mother baby 50/50 chance at that point to survive. A prolapsed umbilical cord is a serious emergency where the cord drops through the cervix before the baby does. It occurs in a tiny fraction of deliveries and requires immediate intervention. So, we go through all of the trauma of the emergency C-section.
• 04:00 - 04:30 Baby's born. and he's got respiratory issues. They lifellight him to a children's hospital. Come to find out then to visit and I'm with my daughter and my son-in-law's down at the children's hospital with the baby. And she says to my daughter, "Wow, your placenta was calcified to the point that it looked like she had gone a couple weeks overdue. That's how calcified your placenta was." Once again, this whole thing happened 2 weeks before her due date. And of course, I thought, why was that placenta so calcified? It makes no sense. Why would there be premature aging and
• 04:30 - 05:00 damage in the placenta? Modern medicine does not offer an easy explanation beyond smoking and overdue deliveries. And a month ago, my friend Jesse Essig sent me an email and said, "You need to read this book." And so she sent me a book by Sally Norton called Toxic Superfoods. Mind blown. Tracy later recognized that the diet she designed created the difficult birth.
• 05:00 - 05:30 Even health professionals like Tracy are missing the connection between diet and pregnancy complications. So what could be the culprit? Oxalate is a tiny chemical that is naturally part of some popular plant foods. Oxalates in these foods bind to
• 05:30 - 06:00 minerals like calcium, forming crystals that can deposit anywhere in our bodies. They damage cells, trigger inflammation, and disrupt normal bodily functions. And I said, "This is it. I'm done. I am not living an unhealthy life anymore." It has been life-changing for me. So, I'm gonna introduce Sally and let her change your
• 06:00 - 06:30 lives. Ben, despite being a chiropractor, was completely blind to what was causing his baby daughter's perplexing vulvver pain. Even with his medical background, he missed the diet connection until his wife's trouble with breastfeeding their second daughter finally pointed him to the missing explanation. Oxalates were inflicting neurological havoc on the most vulnerable members of his growing family.
• 06:30 - 07:00 My name is Ben Charlton. I'm 38 years old and I am a chiropractor. Me and my wife were eating what we thought was a really healthy diet at the time. Lots of spinach, sweet potatoes, cassava flour, you name it. And then when our first child was born, that's when we started to notice something wasn't quite right. She had vulvadenia. She would have pain in her vulva. Every time we would go to wipe her diaper, it would be very painful. And sometimes it was it was red, obviously red. We checked all the things. It wasn't a UTI. It wasn't a yeast infection.
• 07:00 - 07:30 Volvadinia in infants is often misdiagnosed or dismissed as diaper rash, yeast infection or contact dermatitis. And we didn't realize until after our second child was born and we started the low oxalate diet, then we realized, oh, she's having the same symptoms. We realized finally then it was because of oxalate. So, a patient of mine actually sent me a podcast of Sally Norton being interviewed talking about oxalates.
• 07:30 - 08:00 Honestly, my first thought was this could explain a lot about why some of my patients who eat really healthy for a long time still end up with arthritis and low thyroid and other autoimmune conditions. So, we decided to try the diet myself and my wife. And very quickly, it actually got rid of her joint pains. What we didn't anticipate were the long-term consequences of switching to a low oxalate diet too quickly. So when we had our second child, she was about 6 months old whenever we started the low oxalate
• 08:00 - 08:30 diet. What we came to realize is that she was getting a lot of oxalate from my wife who was dumping oxalate through her breast milk. The medical community rarely if ever considers dietary oxalates as a potential cause, especially when the infant is exclusively breastfed. Oxalates can be transferred from the mother's body to the child through breast milk. When the mother reduces her dietary oxalates, oxalates stored in her body may be released from her tissues.
• 08:30 - 09:00 This oxalate deaccumulation from the body can move oxalate into breast milk affecting the nursing infant. We would notice that, you know, my wife, she would get like what felt like a clogged milk duct. And then she would feel like a sharp stabbing pain like glass. She would say like glass shards coming through her nipple. And then it would be the next day, the baby, she would get a really bad diaper rash and she would have hiccups. And then she also was having night terror and we
• 09:00 - 09:30 couldn't comfort her. She was still asleep, but we tried to comfort her and she' just kick us away and and scream. Over the course of a few months with Sally's help, we realized we needed to control my wife's oxalate dumping because our baby was getting a lot of oxalates through the breast milk. By doing that, the night tears did go away for her. So that that was a blessing there to not have poor baby have night tears. Oxalate deaccumulation involves the difficult process of dissolving stored oxalate crystals which can trigger a cascade of unexplainable
• 09:30 - 10:00 symptoms that conventional medicine often misdiagnoses. Her second child, she's 5 years old now. She's never eaten high foods other than the breast milk that she got from my wife. She has accumulated oxalate. She still goes through dumping phases and it's pretty obvious. She'll have stomach pain. She'll have vulvadenia. It'll burn when she pees and she'll even get some what what I would say ADD or ADHD symptoms.
• 10:00 - 10:30 She'll start spinning just in the kitchen. She'll just spinning until she can't stand anymore. She'll be sensitive to certain foods. She'll only want carbohydrates. And her attention span can get really bad during those times. For us, it's pretty obvious that it's related to oxalate clearing still because the next day she's totally fine. She's back to her normal, sweet little self. Good attention span, and we've noticed the mineral baths that Sally recommends really helps get her back on track. The variety of symptoms that Ben describes, from pain to behavioral changes, highlights how oxalates can
• 10:30 - 11:00 affect multiple body systems, especially the nervous system. What's particularly concerning is that these effects can persist for years, even when the child has never directly consumed high oxilate foods. Oxley can accumulate in the body over time, sometimes remaining dormant without any dramatic symptoms for years before causing noticeable
• 11:00 - 11:30 problems. And then there's Lily. Her home garden's bountiful spinach crop became a daily staple while she was pregnant with devastating consequences she only understood much later. Hi, my name is Lily. I just wanted to share my story on how oxalates have affected me over the last couple of years. I grew up on a traditional diet eating mainly Middle Eastern food. And when I got into my early 20ies, I became
• 11:30 - 12:00 much more careful about what I was eating, which led me to eventually become a vegetarian, which then led me to become a raw food vegan. And so a couple of years ago, we started Big Time Vegetable Garden. In the spring and summer of 2020, I grew some spinach and it grew out of control and I had so much spinach. I had to find different things to do with it. And I was freezing
• 12:00 - 12:30 massive bags of spinach. And I was like trying to stuff it into everything that we were having. salad and basically everything I could put it in, I was putting it into. Adding a high oxyate food like spinach or sweet potatoes to multiple meals every day creates an enormous burden that can overwhelm the body's natural defense mechanisms. The levels are extreme, far beyond what the human body was designed to handle.
• 12:30 - 13:00 By the end of 2020, I became pregnant. My daughter was born in 2021. My midwife who delivered her commented on my placenta and she said, "Your placenta is a bit calcified." And I said, "What?" And I just want to go back and mention that my second son, he was born some number of years before when my midwife delivered him and she held up my placenta and she said, "This is the
• 13:00 - 13:30 biggest and the healthiest looking placenta I have seen in a really long time. I'm well aware of calcification in the body and I'm I'm well aware of how that occurs. I'm very careful to avoid that happening. If we see that in a placenta, it's one of two reasons. One reason is either that you're a smoker, which I'm not. And the second reason is that the baby is late, which she wasn't. She was actually 10 days early. About a year ago, I came across information that
• 13:30 - 14:00 suggested that if you've had a high oxilate diet that causes calcification, it can definitely show up as calcified placenta. And it got me thinking back to my diet during 2020 of all the sweet potatoes and all the spinach that we were having and how I'd never really ever eaten anything like that before in my life. The stark contrast between Lily's two pregnancies provides some compelling evidence. The only significant difference was her daily consumption of high oxilate foods during her last pregnancy, resulting in a
• 14:00 - 14:30 calcified placenta despite the birth occurring 10 days early. The other issue that um I'll share that my daughter, the one that was born with a placenta that had some calcification issues in it. When she was first being weaned, one of her foods that I used to puree for her was sweet potato and squash. She started to develop these red marks on the top of her foot near her
• 14:30 - 15:00 ankle. It looked very sore and aggressive, but she didn't seem to be bothered by it at all except for during the night when she would get bouts of itching with it. So, I'd removed anything with gluten. I had removed tomatoes. I had removed dairy. Anything we're usually told is a culprit for eczema. I'd removed all these things and it wasn't making a slight bit of difference. Baby's rashes that Lily describes may be signs of oxalate deaccumulation. When oxalates exit the
• 15:00 - 15:30 body, the immune system's efforts to remove oxalate from tissues, may cause inflammation and irritation, including in the skin. It's this immune response, not necessarily the oxalate deposits themselves, that creates the bulk of the visible symptoms. Then she got um a cold, you know, just like the flu. Um, and as babies children get the flu, they tend to their appetite tends to decrease, which was what happened to her. So, she
• 15:30 - 16:00 was just breastfeeding a whole lot. And then when her appetite started to return, I started to put her back on her her pured foods, which are all homemade. But her evening one, which was usually a base of squash or sweet potato with maybe some other vegetables and things in it, she just point blank refused to have it. After about a week or so of not having anything sweet potato or squash based, I completely removed that meal
• 16:00 - 16:30 and I swapped over for something else, which without my knowing cuz also just to mention, I wasn't aware about the oxalates and sweet potato at that time. I saw a massive improvement in her legs, which was the first improvement I'd seen. If I just give her a few raspberries, and we're not even talking like every day, but she just has a few raspberries, I can see all these little patches appear back on her skin again. And then I started to look into it a bit more and that was how I came across Sally's work with in um toxic superfoods in here and we've
• 16:30 - 17:00 never looked back. What makes this particularly troubling is that the culprit is the very foods many healthconscious parents prioritize. And medical science doesn't really have a clear explanation for gestational diabetes, prolapse cords, early deliveries or an early degenerating placenta. We already know that after consuming high oxalate foods, the blood oxalate levels can spike dangerously.
• 17:00 - 17:30 And basic biology tells us that oxalate has the power to harm fast growing tissues like a baby and its placenta. There's not much incentive to change our existing beliefs and biases except for the children. Parents deserve to know that high oxy foods eaten routinely are risky for the whole family. Please like and share this video today especially with young parents to be.