How to Teach a Child Healthy Eating Habits

Healthy eating habits may be a trendy issue, but the emphasis is on young adults and the older generation. Meanwhile, an unhealthy eating lifestyle mostly starts at an early age. So, it is important that we teach healthy eating habits to the younger generation.

Poor health caused by unhealthy eating habits in childhood can continue into adulthood and put your child at risk for several chronic health conditions. For example, children with unhealthy weight gain can become depressed and have a poor self-image and low self-esteem.

Check out these healthy eating habits that can benefit your children:

1. Help them make healthy food choices instead of commanding them.

Make it your goal to have a variety of nutritious foods available at home. This practice will help your children learn how to make healthy food choices.

● For instance, instead of serving meals with soda, try serving meals with water or fresh homemade juice.

2. Avoid eating out too often.

With a busy work schedule, taking care of kids, and a home, it seems almost impossible to cook often.

● But make it a priority to cook at home as much as possible, so you don’t have to worry about what goes into the food.

● It also helps to build a good habit of cooking at home for the kids, so they don’t grow up with the habit of picking up fast food or always eating out.

3. Shop and cook with them.

Take your children along when shopping for groceries. Teach them the benefits of having healthy food options. These actions give them a perfect opportunity to learn about healthy nutrition.

● Not only will this give them a sense of achievement, but also, they are generally more willing to eat foods that they help prepare.

4. Have meals together as a family regularly.

Always make it a point to eat with your kids at least once a day. Use that time to have friendly conversations.

5. Try not to use food as a punishment.

Avoid punishing your children by denying food from them. This can lead your children to fear that they will not get sufficient food.

● In effect, you then cause them to worry, and your children may try to eat whenever they get an opportunity — leading to unhealthy relationships with food.

6. Plan for balanced food outside of the home.

Know the meal plan at school for your kid. Find out if they can have a healthy option or pack their lunch and include a variety of foods. Also, select more healthy items when you do eat out.

7. Avoid eating while watching TV.

Watching TV while eating slows the metabolic rate, causing the food to digest slowly and fat to burn slowly. Eating while watching tv makes it difficult to pay attention to feelings of fullness and may lead to overeating.

● If your child eats while watching television, this may cause the child to have low metabolism. Try to eat only in the dining room or kitchen.

These healthy eating habits will positively affect your children’s health and lifestyle throughout their adult life.

Nutritionists Reveal Their Most-Hated Diet Fads

Fad diets often have big promises of quick results. You've probably tried, or at least heard of, many of them. However, there's more to these diets than you may first realize.

Many of these fads are risky and can damage your health. They can destroy your body if you aren't careful.

Needless to say, nutritionists despise them!

Learn the truth about some of these fad diets:

1. Cabbage soup diet.

This diet forces you to eat nothing but cabbage soup.

* Nutritionists hate this diet because it doesn't provide any protein or healthy fats. Cabbage soup has some carbohydrates and fiber, but it lacks most nutrients that you need to stay healthy.

* Although some variations of this diet allow skim milk or bananas, in general, you aren't getting enough food to survive. This puts your body into dangerous starvation mode. It's a quick fix that may help you lose some pounds initially, but without long-term weight loss.

* Another issue is that this fad diet can lead to bloating and gas.

2. Grapefruit diet.

Although in this diet you do eat lean foods besides grapefruit, nutritionists aren't fans of this diet because it still limits your food so much that it's only a very short-term solution.

* The grapefruit diet is very low-calorie at under 1,000 calories per day, so you will lose weight. However, you can't maintain this diet for a long period. It's generally a 12-day plan. Mostly you lose water and muscle weight, with very little fat, and then gain it all back very quickly.

3. Tapeworm diet.

The tapeworm diet is considered to be one of the most dangerous diets. Nutritionists strongly warn against it. This fad diet forces you to eat a live tapeworm or tapeworm eggs, so you lose weight.

* Tapeworms can grow and reproduce inside your body. They can cause serious side effects and are dangerous.

* Although you're supposed to take anti-worm medication once you've lost the weight you want, many dieters don't consider the long-term damage and risks of having tapeworms.

4. Cotton ball diet.

Nutritionists don't want you to even think about trying this diet! The main premise of this fad diet is to eat cotton balls soaked in orange juice to lose weight.

* Cotton balls can block your intestines. You don't want to fall for this diet and end up in the hospital with an intestinal blockage. Plus, they're also made from synthetic fibers that can cause other issues.

5. Baby food diet.

Some believe that since baby food is safe for children, they can eat it as adults to lose weight. However, nutritionists warn that this fad can harm your health.

* Baby food is designed for children and doesn't have enough calories for adults. You run the risk of putting your body in starvation mode and not getting enough nutrients to be healthy.

* Also, some adults have trouble digesting baby food because it gives them gas and bloating.

General Fad Diet Tips

Nutritionists share that many fad diets have similar aspects. The most common thing among fad diets is that they tend to severely restrict your calories or the food you can eat.

They may give you short-term results, but you won't be able to stay on the diets very long and will gain the weight back, usually very quickly.

You also run the risk of having serious health issues from these diets. Besides the negative side effects, rapid weight loss itself can be dangerous for your body.

This is caused by you losing bone mass, muscle mass, and nutrients too quickly. It's healthier to lose weight at a slower pace.

Fad diets are tempting, but beware! You don't want to be tricked by a fad diet that hurts your health. There are safer, more effective ways to lose weight that will give you long-term results.

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