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Getting Kids to Eat HealthyGetting kids to eat healthy at a young age can set them up for a lifetime of healthy habits. It can be quite a struggle to build healthy eating kids in today's world of processed, convenience foods and busy schedules. Life can get so hectic that it's often hard to remember WHY we're fighting the healthy eating battle. It's important to remember the life-long gifts you're giving your children when you continue to strive for healthy eating habits: Childhood obesity is growing (due to more junk food and less exercise) and is expected to continue growing world-wide. Some researchers have estimated that nearly half of all children in North and South America will be obese by 2010! And the percentages are growing in Europe and elsewhere also. The biggest reason YOU should care about this is that obese children tend to become obese adults, and obesity in adults causes heart disease, stroke, and many other weight-related ailments. Worrying about this NOW, while your kids are still young, is the best way to set them up for life-long success with their health. 
AND, even if your kids are FAR from obese right now, it's STILL something you need to worry about. After all, maybe they're SO active, running and playing outdoors all the time, but what happens when they start their first desk job? If you instill healthy eating habits and good choices in your kids NOW, they'll be able to weather the "Freshman 15" and later common causes for weight-gain (stress eating, sedentary lifestyles,...)Now, we all know most of this already, don't we? If you didn't, you probably wouldn't have found this website.
We know WHY getting kids to eat healthy is important.
Let's work together at this common goal!! Sharing recipes is great, but we can also share other tips and techniques for getting our kids to eat healthy. Read others' tips and then share your own. You can even comment on each others' tips and stories - for instance say "thank you" if you used the idea with success. |
