Children and healthy food Impossible

Children and healthy food Impossible How do you teach children about healthy eating? Children lea best through food, the adults around them eat healthily - lots of fruit and vegetables, whole grains instead of refined grain products and low amounts of added sugars and added fats. Meals must not become a battlefield. Keep garbage out of the house, offer many possibilities, and not a matter of food and dislikes.It Jun 's better not make a big issue of "proper nutrition" with children, the concepts are complex and food should not issue or a focus of their lives. An example, and intealize without conscious effort. If you ask ( "Why can not I have? Johnny eats this?), Treat the same way as all the religious / ethical / ethnic position, which is distinguished by his friends": a "This is the way we are home "approach.Don 't fight, what happens outside of your house - your kids eat what is served at school, friends' houses, the mall, and everywhere. But if they are "re-grown on their own children and become aware of their health, they remember what the mother / father and said did.At all ages will find many opportunities to teach" close to nature " concepts, relating to food: where it comes from, how he prepared, visits to farms, gardens with your children, where they contribute to food, from scratch, and later, the kitchen "lessons." Keep it fun and companionship. The parents and teachers to use these opportunities for granted, but today is not so simple, many children - and adults - will never again have an apple or a tomato plant, and do not know how to cook water.If weight is a conce more physical activity. Great athletics with children can and should be encouraged to participate in sporting activities and strength training to do. With regard to dietary habits, the example of parents and other adults are more important than what they say. Becomes active as a family. Walking, bike or swim together. Do not feel children should have the amount of food we eat? gove alone "junk" food as possible. Kids will eat anything outside of the house, so that you can only influence what is available at home.The are not simple solutions to the alarming increase in childhood obesity, diabetes type II and the beginning of puberty, but you can start by the refined carbohydrates in your home, serve lots of fruit, vegetables, cereals, beans and other seeds, and the whole family in activities recreation.I you are advised to avoid foods that have partially hydrogenated oils As far as possible, all children will be eating somewhere, but where you can find brands that do not contain - cookies, crackers, cereal, peanut butter - I think it's worth it. There are no long-term studies, but the harmful effects of trans fats seem to raise. This is a good reason to go shopping in specialty chemicals, such as chains of grocery stores, Whole Foods, organic and natural food stores where it is generally a wider range of options that do not contain partially hydrogenated oils. Check the list of ingredients.Dr. Gabe Mirkin has been a radio talk show host for 25 years and the medical practice for over 40 years, has specialized for four specialties, including sports medicine. Read or listen to hundreds of health and his fitness newsletter reports on a weekly fitness, health and nutrition