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Eat together and make family meals a sharing experience. Talk about your day or plan your nextvacation. Great times can be had and shared around a dinner table. Limit eating out; restaurant menus tend to be higher in calories. If you do eat out, make it only for special occasions instead of a weekly event. Talk about what you will eat before you go to the restaurant.
Develop a plan as afamilyas to how you can have healthy eating habits. Teach your kids how to eat healthy and let them help plan meals. Let the children help cook. Make it a fun time where everyone pitches in. Watch how proud children are of their accomplishments.
Make grocery shopping a fun experience. Children can help make the list and find the items in the grocery store. Put colorful food on the table: green and yellow vegetables plus brown (whole grain) breads. This can be the food that your child helped to pick out.
Pack your child's lunch forschool. A school lunch of all-beef hot dog on a whole-grain bun, low-fat milk, baked fries and an orange contains 764 calories and 26.9 fat grams, not to mention sodium or sugar intake.
Get up and move with your children. Anyexerciseis a good way to burn calories. Skip, jump rope, play hide and seek. Adding a little exercise into your daily routine and that of your child will always result in a healthier lifestyle.
Set an example and make healthy eating a family affair. Children are much more apt to follow your lead. If you are leading a healthy lifestyle then it will be much easier for you to enforce healthy eating habits with your children. By committing to healthy habits as a family, everyone can support and encourage each other. Making small changes now can mean a big difference in everyone's life and will give your child the best chance of maintaining a healthy weight during their adult years.
According to a study on Pediatric, 26% of world children ages 2 to 17 are overweight, making obesity seem like an epidemic. The are several key factors that you can implement in order to raise a healthy child and prevent early obesity, which can lead to greater health risks for the rest of their life.
You are to look after your child and child to follow you.
Prevent Obesity in Children
By: Dr. Ripudaman Singh
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