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Showing posts with label Overweight kids. Show all posts

Eating Habits : Keys to Developing Healthy Eating among Children

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Children naturally eat food when they are feeling hungry.  There are times they don’t want to eat, not because they don’t like the food but because they're not really hungry.  But if they want to eat, they ask for food.  This is not same with adults who keep eating even they're already full. Unfortunately, many children are now overweight kids because they are trained to eat like adults.

  
Our present generation has lots of bad food to offer every day.  If these foods have become choices of your children, sooner or later it will be their lifestyle.  Today, responsible parents should apply corrective measures as far as food is concerned and take into consideration their child's health.  So here are some ways to enhance good eating habits in your homes:

Tips for Eating Kids

1. Avoid limiting or controlling food.  If parents have the habit of restricting food to their children, the latter will only build up eating disorder like bulimia or anorexia later in their lives.  It has chances of having defective growth development.

2.  Always make healthy food available.  Children will normally eat what they see.  Display a variety of fruit on a big bowl.  Offer some apples for snack.  As much as possible never put on display anything that you don’t want them to eat—something that’s not healthy to eat.  Keep in mind that a child will be eating food that is seen in the house.

3.  Never brand the food as “bad” or “good.”  Rather, tie the food to the stuffs your children love so much like appearance, sports, cartoon, or toys.  Tell them how certain food like turkey and other lean meat can provide them protein, how calcium in dairy products provide them energy for physical performance and sports.  Fruits and vegetables serve as antioxidants.

4.  Give compliment if they choose healthy food.  Show your appreciative smile and let your children understand how smart they have become because of healthy food they eat.

5.  Avoid nagging at your children if they have unhealthy food choices.  Just ignore it, if they do.  Or if the child likes eating fried, high-cholesterol content, fatty food, then redirect the choice.  Offer them to try roasted potatoes in the oven, rather than french fries.  Or if he likes candy, you optionally offer fresh strawberries coated with less chocolate sauce.  Too busy to do it?  Then give them organic sweet dried fruit for quick snacks.

6.  Food is not good to reward a child.  Eating creates only weight problems in their bodies.  Better yet, reward them with things for fun and physical benefits like an adventurous journey, fast catching games, or hide and seek family play.

7.  Seek advice from your health care specialist.  It helps if you regularly visit your child’s doctor and nutritionist before doing a diet for your child, changing the type of food, attempting to help him gain or lose weight.  Don’t make any diagnose that your child is underweight or overweight.

Changing your children’s diet and eating lifestyle are continuing and not overnight.  All food outside the house can make overweight kids.  Each time they are off home, people around can make them eat much and indulge in wrong food.  But the eating style they learn from you is capable of protecting them for a lifetime!

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    Fast Food: Burgers, Fries, Pizzas Make Overweight Kids

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    Today, our society is filled with overweight kids because of the different fast food restaurants that cater both to parents and children.  Food specifically is their nature of business.  As years go by, more and more are launched in the market and children from all sorts of life try to take advantage of what they can offer them.

    Fast food restaurants may promote instant food to eat, but how safe are they to promote the healthy lifestyles of your children?  Sad to accept that burgers, pizzas, fries, hotdogs, sodas and other children’s favorites are not healthy foods, although kids may consider them most delicious.

    Findings about Overweight

    What these restaurants claim is that their products are not the major source of overweight kids.  Whether there is truth to this or none, still the concerned parents are the ones in charge of their children’s health. Consider the  following:
    • A new research shows that children who eat instant-cooked food tend to eat larger amounts of food the whole day.  They become overweight kids because they eat more than what their body needs. 

    • Statistics shows that on a given day, approximately 1/4 of the children in a particular country would eat in these restaurants.  This involves the young boys and girls in every race and cultural group.  It includes all the regions in the nation.

    • In just one whole year, young boys and girls are able to increase their weight to about eight more pounds.  This is because of the high cholesterol contents eaten in fast food restaurants.

    • The sugar, salt, fat contents do attract the children like a magnet.  The tastes are appealing to the kids as well as the appearance and the smell.  They satisfy children's cravings.

    • The great taste is the triggering factor to every child including their adult parents. The small amount they consume will enhance more cravings for indulgence.   It promotes more eating in the afternoon until evening. 


    Deprived of Fruit and Vegetables

    Since the choice of food does not include enough fibers, the children will not feel full immediately.  Consequently, they tend to eat larger amounts for the rest of the day. Foodstuffs consumed will compromise the children’s diet in general.  Better options like fruit and vegetables are ignored and they play only a small role in children’s overall food nutrition. Depriving your children with the right food will develop obesity and weight-gaining problems.

    Pizzas, burgers, fries and other similar food have the highest chances of making overweight kids if eaten beyond control.  Remember, the lifetime health of the kids start at the very young age, so be aware how you, parents, feed them every day.



    Fast Food: Burgers, Fries, Pizzas Make Overweight Kids is  a post on  Modern Parenting Tips: Styles & Approach to Train & Discipline Children


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    Overweight Kids: Controlling Overeating to Avoid Being Obese

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    My son is an overweight kid, a problem I never expected to happen to him.  My other two children are just fine in their weight, and I can keep their favorite food around the house just for the two kids.  The trouble comes when my obese son sees the food he goes on overeating everything he can see around.  I feel totally disturbed and I really don’t know how to deal with it.
    You did not point out visiting your regular doctor to realize if your son really should be classified as “obese.”  Because you have always feared having an overweight kid, you might be mistaking a case of being a little overweight with one of obesity.  In any case, this is not easy for you, and you wish you could do something about it.

    Obesity or overweight is a severe difficulty for children and for those parents who care about them.  Large children quickly discover that adults normally are sorry for them but that peers exclude them.  Being obese can obstruct a child’s capability to join effectively in a lot of activities.  The most important question is that obesity is disadvantageous to the child’s health and personality.  Some factors can be considered to control overeating:


    1.   Ask your other children to purposely help you.  Tell them that you are going to buy only healthful food for snacks, and that you trust they will not complain but understand it’s really better for their bodies, too.  Prepare very good but low-calorie meals.

    2.   Avoid nagging or showing disgust toward your son.  Rather, let him know how much you care about him no matter what his weight is.

    3.   Try to find out a guide in his eating binges; they might happen, for instance, when he feels fed up or disappointed about his school experiences.

    4.   If you can get him occupied in an activity, the problem might resolve itself.  This action could be a pastime (making models, taking care of a pet, collecting stamps—it really doesn’t matter what, as long as it makes him interested) or a neighborhood work (car washing, cutting of grass, etc.).  

           5.   And, most importantly, give an overweight kid the attention on matters not related to his predicament.

    Being obese and indulging in overeating are within a person’s control.  It helps if you can apply these tips and find out how well they can work for your child!



    Overweight Kids: Controlling Over-eating to Avoid Being Obese is  a post on  Modern Parenting Tips: Styles & Approach to Train & Discipline Children



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