BRAT Diet

A diet is a diet from the foods it contains. This food is of a certain breed, type, growth, or manufacturer. Your diet is what it is and that’s the way that it is. Yet there’s always an exception. A million little outs and preclusions and “but ifs” or “only when’s” that make defining a diet a lot more struggle than it probably should be. We all just want to be healthy, we all just want straight answers, we all just want to have clarity; we all have always had that with the BRAT diet.

Bananas, rice, apple sauce, and toast. That’s it. That’s the BRAT diet’s secret concoction for a very specific set of circumstances and a primary audience: little children with constipation. BRAT diet is allowable on other fronts but it’s primary consumer is either the youth, the infirmed, or both.

BRAT diet, meant more as a tool for parents (with so much else to remember during health time) than as an actual step-by-step plan for good health, has been around for a long time. BRAT has also helped people enormously in making sure that their young children learn to deal effectively with the travails of adulthood, including the unfortunate episodes of constipation or diarrhea.

Be wary of things outside the realm of dieting like the child’s taking of antibiotics, recent immunizations, or not even excess, junk food but just ANY new food can lead to trouble and cause an episode for which BRAT is designed.

Like everything else in this fickle world of ours, you’ve got options. The same people who take the time and commit their lives to studying this sort of thing have come up with an all ‘new-and-improved’ version of this diet for your perusal. It is called the CRAM diet and includes (cereal, rice, applesauce, milk) Pervading wisdom is that this somehow bests the BRAT diet by it’s having more protein and a more agreeable fat content.

But BRAT is, has been, and will be around for the health of your children and their tiny little bodies. It’s amazing but true; never before really has a little BRAT done so much good.