Exercise is only half of the equation when it comes to the children in good health. It is easier for some parents get their children a 5 k, instead you have to eat a balanced meal. Our body tendons of course sugar, salt and fat.
As children grow up, they are with map for junk food and tried with their classmates from class of Cheetos and Oreos bombed. Then, how healthy to promote, if biological and how environmental factors eating habits? Here are some tips.
Audio alarm.
It is a technique that I with my students for years used. During after school snack I sit and talk with them in their day. When I realized that one who is, to eat healthy snacks, I blurt, "Ding Ding Ding!" Snack health warning! Healthy snack alert! "during the selection of nutritious food on."
How on wheels, snacks snack time, presented the following day with pride their children is healthy. Some children can't wait to show me. Others extract quiet your snack with a cunning on their faces, to know that they are going to be rented.
Try this at home with your children, if they choose a healthy snack. My "Ding Ding Ding!"Routine to use, or come with your own. The band the best!
The family
You have already already heard everything. Children in families who sit for dinner together have healthy eating habits, that children, the front of the TV or on your own to eat. The challenge is, what is actually happening when our lives are so busy.
The good news is that for dinner a few nights, a week makes a difference in the eating habits of children calls. These include only a few per dinner serve healthy, but easy to kid. You want to fight for your children to spend not your precious time to the family table. Instead, you prepare food to love them with adjustments in good health.
Override regular pasta with wheat, high fiber pulp. Cut vegetables and hide in sauces. Use lean meat and avoid processed foods. If your children like salad, busy nights you can a variety of salads from a local restaurant or a market. A family "Taste test", to determine which is the favorite. Do not forget, role model, the standardized parts and the art of entertainment.
Dig start
According to the American Dietetic Association Journal children food, you are more fruit and produce vegetables, if they are provided local. A garden with your children is not only great exercise, it is a way that they really get involved with their eating habits. You can see the process from beginning to end.
After the planting and maintenance of core or strawberries, are eager to take their first bite your children, for example, eagerly their maturation. But if you grow such as I, and the idea of a garden, intimidating and unrealistic markets seems sharp with your local farmers. He evolved not as good as your own, but similar benefits to buy your fruits and vegetables at a farmers ' market, you can by one a little creative.
Start with your children with a basket, they can take on the purchase of equipment. It is more useful for them at home were boring in a special basket design in plastic bags. Ask your children to collect fruit and vegetables from five different colors. Give the child who can search, a fruit or vegetable, the family has never before has eaten Kudos. Finally, the children in the washing and preparation are the purchase in good health.
As a love exercise is to give it easier with your kids create a healthy food, when you start on the way, when they are young. But it is never too later to produce a positive impact on the eating habits of your children. By some lifestyle you can improve how changes, to eat your family. Of course you have to start your spouse!