Choosing a Preschool Backpack for Your Kid

The best thing to do when shopping for a preschool backpack for your kid is bring the kid along! This can help you make sure it fits. You want to make sure that the straps fit and that you are buying the smallets size of back pack that can still fit all of your child's stuff in it.

In fact, it does help you if you know what is going to go in it before you start shopping. Your backpack should be able to hold binders, a packed lunch, cold-weather gear, homework, change of clothes, lunches, drinks and whatever. Of course the needs for this will be different from child to child. You will be amazed at how these tiny little bags can hold so much one day.

As these are for very young children you need to make sure that they are not too complex. Choose ones with one or two smaller pockets and Velcro might be a better choice for a fastener than a zipper for some kids. The less pockets there are the better life is going to be for a small tyke who may find searching through a lot of pockets hard to mange.

It is also a good idea to get a waterproof backpack as many kids have the habit of dropping them in a puddle without even meaning too.

To personalize it put a tag on it that helps you and anyone else looking definitely identifies the backpack. You make your own tag, repurpose and existing tag or purchase a new laminated one. Some stores sell them ready made in different child's names. You can also custom order existing luggage tags from online monogram shops. One that is very popular is on Etsy.com and is called your monogram… You simply choose the font, colors and size that you want and they mail you the completed tag.

However it is not that hard to design one yourself cut it out and make your own tag. You simply purchase the laminate sleeves at Walmart or Giant Tiger or some place similar and then stick your homemade laminate card inside it. This is very easy to do using a rudimentary Word word processing program.

Finally make an effort to get a school bag in a color that helps you distninguish it from the rest in the class. One that looks like all the rest of the backpacks is most likely to get stolen.

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Get Rid of Gluten and Get Rid of Asthma!

Gluten can be a source of health problems and today you are going to try and figure out how well your body has been tolerating it. Gluten is, in fact the source of most ongoing digestive problems causing everything from gas to bloating to irritable bowel syndrome. Just cutting out gluten has been known to cure asthma and other chronic problems in children..

Gluten is the key component in most types of bread, and it’s found in a number of grains—namely wheat, rye, and barley. It is part protein, part starch or carbohydrate.
We generally think of gluten as being only in bread and pasta, but in fact it is now widely used in processed foods, with negative consequences to many people’s overall health. It’s important to check labels and read ingredients carefully.

Other names for gluten include: modified food starch (though this sometimes refers to corn on a food label), hydrolyzed vegetable protein, hydrolyzed wheat protein, textured vegetable protein, and, of course, wheat.

The rule of thumb is that the more highly processed a food is, the more likely it is that these ingredients will show up on the labels.

Gluten is often present in:
• Bagels
• Beer
• Bread and bread rolls
• Cake
• Cookies
• Couscous
• Crackers
• Deli meats (which are heavily processed)
• Flour, including wheat, spelt, semolina, and rye
• Muffins
• Noodles
• Pancakes
• Pasta
• Pizza Sauces (often thickened with flour)

There are gluten-free versions of these products available made from beans, rice, corn, nuts, soy, and potatoes. These are the foods you’ll want to choose when converting from an acidic to an alkaline diet.

Gluten is not a naturally occurring protein in the human body. In fact, some researchers call gluten protein a toxin.

How could something that we eat so much of be classified as a toxin? Some studies suggest that gluten damages the small intestine and allows food proteins to be released into the body, and the immune system then interprets these proteins as invasive and goes into high gear to defend itself.

In other words, you get an overblown immune response. This kind of immune response can possibly contribute to or mimic diseases like lupus, arthritis, and multiple sclerosis.
Problems with digesting gluten can also cause headaches, asthma, skin rashes and hives, weight gain and/or loss ,bloating, fatigue, and behavioral problems such as depression.
At the most harmful end of the spectrum is celiac disease. Commonly thought of as an allergy, it is actually an immune-system response to gluten.

Click here to get Gluten-Free Foods for your Celiac Disease Diet

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