This Has Got To STOP!!

[Music] why are we feeding our kids crap this has got to stop up to 70% of your children's calories are Ultra processed foods these refined sugars starches and Seed oils are literally destroying your child's brain when you get a chicken McNugget classified as a nutrient-dense food or a french fried classified as a vegetable we have a problem after many months of searching I stumbled on a school that is doing it right it's an amazing organization called School of lunch where a small group of volunteers developed an incredible training program that is literally going to spread

around the United States and around the world today we're going to interview the founder Hillary Boon which they call the lunch lady tell me briefly your story how you gotten into the position that you're in right now well it was really through my own health journey and my family's health Journey that I ventured into becoming a lunch lady never in my wildest dreams did I imagine that I'd be there but here we are you know from in my own infertility to having five kids and with various issues from eczema to epilepsy and speech delays whatnot

and then a husband with cancer a father with Alzheimer's disease ultimately our cancer Journey brought us from Massachusetts to California where we landed in this small little mountain town in Los Angeles and the the school there aligned completely with um the My Philosophy around food and how I had healed my family and I was all in and then as the school grew they outsourced the food and when I that's when I stepped in and said this is not aligned with my beliefs and how nature intended for us to to eat and so I stepped in

as this s coordinator and the consultant to the lunch lady and then halfway through the school year I was given the keys to the kitchen and um it was almost like the universe was like here you go girl like take the keys and show what's possible so I got my foot in the door and um decided to just show what's possible and here we are almost a decade in I've been looking a long time for um some type of program out there someone that's doing it right in the school system and I couldn't find anything

and then I stumbled on your site I'm like what the heck this is amazing so I'm pulling up now just pictures of the types of meals that you're serving these kids and uh it looks like you know you're doing traditional food I know it's not completely low car but you're soaking the grains soaking the seeds getting rid of certain things that can interfere with digestion uh sauerkraut Oregan Meats grass-fed meat from local farms incredible I mean if I would have lived on this food growing up things would have been a lot better believe me yeah

absolutely I mean it really does come down to to the quality and also the that that connection to our food and our local food system we're Source 80 to 85% of our foods from our local food system and when I had my you know switch flipped when I was fat free and fell for all that propaganda when I saw how traditionally you know across the globe cultures were thriving free of disease and studying their diets much like the work of Dr Weston a price my eyes were opened and I was just like wow this this

totally makes sense and I've been duped my whole life and through our journey on the gaps diet as a family and I wrote a cookbook of the heal your gut cookbook I understood the gut brain and the gut Body Connection and how we're so out of balance it's about that nutrient density we have their stomachs for six hours a day that's 30% of a kids meals across the year so we have a massive opportunity to make a difference in the trajectory of their health you know imagine a 5-year-old being fed this way all the way

up until they graduate what type of um effects is it creating either in a child's ability to learn Focus their mood the very first year we started we did a little video documentary on it and unprompted this little sixth grade kid said I used to feel like this up and down all day long and now I just feel like this and I was like my jaw Dr I was just like that's it that's our 302 commercial that's what mean these kids they they know what it feels like to feel terrible but they that's their Norm

right and so when all of a sudden they're given foods that feel good and are properly absorbed and digested they just feel even and steady so we see kids engaged and happy and joyful and teachers are also participating so they're alongside these kids as mentors eating the same foods and then they're returning back to the classroom together satiated and and um and satisfied you know I think that's the biggest thing is like especially being fat free forever I was like never satisfied and when you have you know proper amounts of protein and fats like good

saturated fats you're just you're satisfied I reflect back on my kids so they're all over the age of 30 right now so that was 30 years ago so I remember you know trying to force my daughter in the car she didn't want to go to school but this whole thing was like a blood sugar issue that's all it was I knew nothing about nutrition I wish I can go back in time because if I would have known what I know now it would have been a game Cher with their their mood their ability to remember

and learn these little kids are you know having their light bulbs turned on and you know their cells are all like woo you know happy and and they're going home and Reporting back and saying like you know the school food mom can you make food like Miss Hillary or can you make sour croud and the parents are Awakening right and so it's it's really cool because then we bring the parents and for parents at lunch and introduce them to what we're doing and that's what needs to happen because parents just don't know and schools don't

know so it takes a dedicated you know Army of chefs who are going to show up every day and I think it's like basically the coolest job in the world and that's what I want to spark within like people who are graduating from culinary school or um you know register dietitians nutritionists who are like wanting to make a change like what better place to be able to make a a lasting change than to dive into a school system and get these kids really young but what you're doing you took it one step further you developed

a training program to teach other schools other Chefs of how to do this right you know as we went along and I saw the changes in the teachers and the parents and the kids and everybody wanting more information I was just like everyone needs to know this it's not only school systems but it's hospitals and churches and community centers like just do whatever you can do to get this message wherever your passion lies but obviously school lunches right now is just so hot and so huge and the opportunity is like right now my question is

why isn't this in the entire school system because we've been trying to get this dietary food guideline thing change for many many years and it's going to take some work to do that but you're you're going after a different part you're going after Grassroots the reason why it's not spreading is because you have a very small group of people volunteers including yourself trying to do this on a shoestring budget which is like no budget and I'm like what like no one's funing you of course you know we don't want like big food to fund you

but you just you're you're not expanding because you're just um you don't have the resources to be able to keep up because I know the demand is really high people want to learn this but it's just like you only have a few people I'm not a money driven person and I can pite you in the butt I guess but it's really just been about passion and vision for me and seeing it every day and being in the work with my own kids and doing this for my kids and for the community and um but we're

at a point right now where it's apparent that the world needs us you know this vision and this Mission can't just stay on this little mountain top into P California it needs to be you know it needs to go it needs to go I you know I I can and I can only do so much right we are just like a skeleton crew and so we need the support to you know to get this message out to the masses and to show people that other way because once they see it I know people will gravitate

towards it because it just makes sense it's the way we evolve to eat as humans right it's the way we've been eating for Millennia you know until this industrialization and Ultra processed foods came in this is the way we lived and thrived free of disease and this is what everybody ultimately wants for their children right so we need to make videos we need to make toolkits because what happens is people get trained but then they're they are back in the system as the lone soldier right so they need support and they need that those continued

resources to keep them going and then we need this the kids for the schools the school you know the superintendent an enlightened superintendent can do a lot of things but most of them don't know right so they need to see what's possible and need to know the why and they need to hear it from people that have done it and that it is possible because there's so many barriers to entry for them there's so much Nuance with every school I've always said like I can't change a million schools but I can train a million people

because every school has their own issues so you want the people that are passionate about that school and are going to dive in and pull apart what needs to change to make that program successful so we really just need we need the support you know I'm humbly asking because I just believe so whole edly that we're at a moment in you know Humanity where our children are so sick that it's a it's a time you know like we can't keep going the way we're going and we have this traction so it's like let's go I

want to get behind I want to actually help you as well I want to I know you have a GoFundMe account we'll we'll put that link down below but I'm going to help you and uh my followers are going to help you in fact I'm going to ask them right now to flow something anything to help uh support what you guys are doing because you need a lot of res resources you need staff you need uh promotional M materials you need to have more people so you can actually have an army of trainers so we

can actually make a dent those of you that are watching now if you can flow something to this anything we'd really appreciate it because uh I'm personally going to help but we need a lot of people to help out to give you guys support because what you're doing is strictly on purpose and uh I want to get behind that so I mean this is just amazing well thank you so much I mean it's I do believe you know the power of social media and that my message can go instantly you know that's what's the blessing

of of technology and social media is that you know once that momentum gets going um a spark can you know ignite so many people and I just believe people are craving this information and you don't have to be sick the body will heal you know this isn't just about our children but it's about our children's children you know we want these kids to be giving birth to a healthy next generation of kids and to understand that they have agency over that we have all this money we have the worst outcomes and we have the doctor

right in the center okay and they're diagnosing but they're not factoring in food as part of their evaluation they're just omitting that piece of data right and then we have the junk food industry that's pumping all this junk through there over 50% of adults over 60% of children and teenagers are consuming alter processed food and they're getting problems health problems that are treed by big Pharma so this whole system revolves around this one single Omission the omission of actual real food like right now there's a movement called food is medicine I don't know if you've

heard of that before food is medicine it sounds really great right food is medicine doesn't really talk about food until you dig deep into what they're recommending and so I looked at their food is medicine and they're recommending certain proteins they recommend a lot of starches they're desserts apple cobbler you know mac and cheese Cheerios cereal we're just right basing everything on the existing dietary guidelines so again this is not going to work I think we need to give kids credit to right they're smart and so when you give them the information and you give

them that you know that feeling of what it feels like to feel good they they want that they want to feel good right I mean we had a kid who came in in fourth grade failure to thrive his mom was like all distraught and she had actually had my cookbook but didn't realize I was the lunch lady at her kids school was like so you know we we talked and I supported the kid and looked after him and lots of bone broths and just really things that were easy on his gut and you know now

he's like 62 a junior or so 10th or 11th grade um in high school and he's thriving and it didn't it didn't take long it was just you know and I would Source foods for her and get her organ meats and different you know different cuts of meat so that she can make meat stocks and stuff so that communication and that connection with the mom and the care that went into this child just quickly turned him around and now he knows those diagnoses that kids have don't have to be for life like it's just so

powerful when you give the kids and the parents the tools to fuel the body correctly you can't just take three seconds with a kid and shove him through the line and put Foods you know fresh fruits and vegetables on there and think this is going to change the whole trajectory of their health I just don't believe that I think you were really needing to connect I've been practiced for 30 years and so the first question I ask every single person coming in kids and adults is um you come in with a problem what are you

eating what are you eating it's we don't ask that but I don't think people appreciate the connection between what you're eating and uh these diagnosis as add or attention deficit disord like all these different mental disorders they don't connect them with Foods right they get a label even kids are becoming more depressed nowadays it's like you shouldn't be depressed as a child and that can lead to drugs and addictions and you know taking more medications and so uh as we get older you can see the end result of this a person in a nursing home

on 48 different medications that's where we're going if we don't stop this I know it's not easy it takes a lot of energy right to be able to do all what you're doing like it's not just a quick thing you have to go find the food you to learn about it you have to cook it prepare it then you're teaching other people how to do it so I mean I I'm just like blown away yeah it's amazing I think the other thing that we're doing that is is a disservice to our children is that these

diagnoses are you know kind of just their a lot in life and there's nothing you can do about it you're just going to be our medication you know my child with eczema I was like oh I'll probably have asthma eczema allergies that just run hand in hand he might outgrow it he might not I put him on raw milk and codiv oil and he's completely healed you know and I was just like what food just healed my child like you know right so it's it's understanding the the power of food and the power in the

agency that we have and so um getting to that root cause is so important and much of that does lie with what we're putting into our bodies I've spotted this as something that's super super important you have it right because I'm like wow there's I looked at a lot of different programs like I didn't find anything that comes even close to what you guys do and then then to find out you have a training program I'm like I'm going to get behind that please donate if you can anything that would be great and then um

what we'll do is we'll come back again look at the success and the effects of um our donations and how they help you guys expand because um we need this to expand all over the world because if we we're not I'm not going to wait or the next Food Pyramid we got to do something right now any support we truly appreciate it the training acmy are lifechanging I'm literally like you know 100% money back guarantee if your life hasn't changed forever it just and you just get it so I'm really excited to get this message

out to your followers and thank you so much for sharing our message and any support is just greatly appreciated I really believe like you said now is the time and we can't wait it's just it's just time our children need us awesome thank you very much