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i had another question what age can a child  start fasting the answer is it depends  

now let’s say your child is younger let’s  say they’re nine years old or eight years old  

and they’re overweight the first thing that  you should do of course is do the low-carb diet  

it’s essential do keto that should handle the  weight if it doesn’t then you might want to do  

a modification of intermittent fasting which i  will explain but i first want to mention this  

so many kids consume three meals with snacks  this is the problem right here of these snacks  

even if they’re healthy because every time you  eat you stimulate insulin so that child is getting  

all these spikes of insulin all day long and the  pancreas never has a chance to reset and so it’s  

going to convert a lot of that fuel to fat fuel  it’s going to affect their cognitive function  

their ability to learn and study in school and  their ability to focus and the other issue is that  

let’s say um a child is given something right  before they go to bed you know like a cookies  

and milk before they go to bed so let’s say  that’s at 9 30 p.m and let’s say they get up at  

7:00 am and have their breakfast of course it’s  what is it cereal a muffin orange juice pancakes  

terrible you only get like nine and a half  hour fast that is just not enough fasting in  

fact that child is going to be set up for a lot  of problems down the road and so another point  

that’s interesting i would say about 30 maybe  even 40 years ago children and even adults did  

not do the snacking they do now so there’s been a  massive shift in snacking on all sorts of things i  

think that right there is a huge culprit on why a  lot of these kids are overweight not for calories  

but just because you’re spiking insulin so what  i’m going to suggest at any age and there’s  

exceptions to the rule but generally speaking  three meals is what you need to have your child  

uh be on with no snacks if they’re hungry between  the meal all that means is they’ve their their  

meals are too high in carbs and they don’t have  enough fat or they don’t have enough nutrients  

the child has the right meal that’s nutrient dense  which is always vital then they won’t need a snack  

i mean we’ve become literally obsessed about  constantly having food there all the time to  

prevent this drop in blood sugar and that’s simply  because everyone’s running on their blood sugars  

they’re not running on fat fuel because their  carbs are too high and so if your child is a  

bit overweight um and you do this right here and  then you do three meals no snacks well maybe you  

can then do two meals a day just make sure that  those meals are really sufficient in calories and  

nutrient dense there’s some really important  nutrients to focus on with a growing child  

dha which is omega-3 fatty acids essential trace  minerals essential for the growth and development  

of the brain and the endocrine system and the  immune system and then the b vitamins vitamin  

c vitamin d and vitamin e all very very important  and so in the growth and development of that child  

without these there’s going to be problems and you  never want to go low-fat with a child because we  

need that fat for the brain and for the endocrine  system as well now let’s say your child is really  

small let’s say they’re one or two or three years  old and they’re transitioning off breast milk  

i wouldn’t worry about the three meals and two  snacks at that age you know just feed them when  

they get hungry make sure it’s nutrient dense  but i would say when they start to become like  

four or five or six years old you want to shoot  for three meals no snacks as much as possible  

and of course check with your doctor before taking  any of these recommendations now the next point  

i want to bring up is when that teenager stops  growing roughly between 16 18 years old that’s  

when you can start to do a little bit more fasting  depending on what you’re trying to solve or if you  

just want to be healthy and of course i want to  emphasize when you’re growing you know you need  

more nutrients than when you stop growing now  let’s just talk about a child having epilepsy  

researchers found that when you fast you lessen  the incidence of epilepsy because of ketones  

so the ketogenic diet especially one that’s very  high in fat and moderate protein and extremely low  

in carbs that can mimic what occurs when you’re  fasting and so instead of having a young child  

going on some type of long fast you can just  put them on the ketogenic diet to mimic that  

fast and so the reason i’m bringing it up  is because i would always always recommend  

the child to be on a low carb diet there’s  no real good reason to be on a high carb diet  

regardless of the age but where fasting comes in  is when you start having weight issues and maybe  

you have blood sugar issues maybe your child’s  a pre-diabetic then you focus on this right here  

all right so that’s my opinion on when a child  should start fasting before you go if you have  

a question about a product or you’re new to keto  and you want to know how to begin keto or you’re  

on keto and you need a debug because it’s not  going as smooth i have a keto consultant standing  

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