Sunday, April 8, 2007

Feed Your Children Healthy Foods And Build Great Eating Habits

Obesity in school aged kids is out of control. It is the parent
responsibility to establish limits and control the amount of
food the child eat, children lack this ability.

Here are some tips that will help you keep track of your
child's food and eating regimen and help him fight childhood
obesity. By eating poorly and not having good eating habits
will effect the eating habits of your child and will lead to
being lazy and becoming heavier and unhealthy. Your entire
family will benefit from eating healthy eating and physical
activity. As a parent you need to take a role in trying to
create good habits and help your children establish healthy
eating and exercising rituals, this will help in the long run.

Child obesity has lead to a number of other health related
issues such as diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart disease
from the combination of improper nutrition and lack of exercise.
For the sake of her child's health both as a child and
throughout his or her life, breastfeeding is the very best
possible thing you can do when your child is young. A recent
study in obesity suggests that children who are breastfed by
their mothers during the first year of life are less likely to
develop obesity as they get older.

If you are concerned about your child possibly being overweight
then you need to decide whether the excess weight is part of a
growth pattern that may change over time or whether there is a
weight problem. Forget all the drugs and diets, feed your
children healthy food and monitor what they eat, this will help
your child in the long run.

It is important as parents that we take more responsibility to
ensure healthy living for our children and to ensure they eat
enough so they are healthy and they grow up eating healthy
foods, we must understand what is healthy weight and what is
weight that is leading to becoming obese. Yes they need to eat
enough to be healthy and to grow properly, but we must know
where to draw the line between what is a healthy weight and
what is excessive weight. As parents, we can not take the stand
that it is healthy for our children to be round and plump.

One reason: children have increased the amount of calories they
eat each day by as many as 300. Did you know that more than 60%
of American youth eat too many fatty foods, and less than 20%
eat the recommended five or more servings of fruits and
vegetables per day. A journal is just a tool for you to help
your child eat better.

Many of the foods children are eating today are fried or fast
food type. To keep your children healthy and at an acceptable
weight make the meals yourself so you know what you are putting
into the food, you are able to control the portions of food and
include healthy types of food like vegetables, fruit and many
other types of food.

About The Author: Melissa Fishman and David Marc Fishman are
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