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The Importance Of Healthy Foods And Healthy Eating Habits For Children

October 23rd, 2009

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Many parents feel having trouble with healthy foods and healthy eating habits in their children. Not all children like healthy foods. Often we find a child who will not eat vegetables, fruits, or fish. Actually, the first must be recognized by the parents is that parents need to adjust the amount of nutrients that are consumed by their children for nutritional needs of each child is different. There are at least minimum standards that must be consumed for the child is fat, protein and carbohydrates. These nutrients can be obtained from the variety of foods consumed. Fat consumption to 30% of the total energy in a day is needed to absorb important vitamins such as A, D, E, and K.

Parents should not be afraid to give fat intake in children as long as the recommended portion. This is because children are individuals who are still growing physically and emotionally so that required different types of food composition.

Parents are expected to avoid the habit of unhealthy eating. Avoid giving unhealthy foods like junk food. In addition to the cooking process is not mature, junk food has a high salt content and various other chemicals such as preservatives, colorings, and artificial sweeteners. In fact, the habit of eating unhealthy foods has the potential to cause serious diseases such as cancer, obesity, cholesterol, stroke, gout, allergies or diabetes.

Establishing healthy eating to children, introduces healthy foods, as well as teaches children to make healthy food, indirectly create richer insight into the child. He knew what healthy foods to choose and where unhealthy foods to avoid

Healthy Eating Habits for Children, What should parent do?

Psychologically, eating behavior arises because children imitate the eating habits of other family members. For example, parents who like sweet foods will make the children fan of sweet foods as well. Habits of parents wash their hands before eating; will also be imitated by children.

In providing optimal nutrition for children, the mother of creativity is required. Therefore, mothers should adjust the intake of good nutrition for children, including quite understand how to deal with children when they do not want to eat.

As the process of learning, healthy eating habits provide many benefits to children, including self-confidence. Since childhood, children begin to learn to hold his own spoon, scoop the food, and sat in his chair (each time to be fed). Provide opportunities to the preschoolers to determine or choose the desired own food. At school age, cooking activities will also enhance self-esteem of children. Children become more proud when they can make their own healthy food. Also parents should also be more creative in serving healthy food for children.

What used to eat children today, will determine future health. Because of that, make it a habit to create healthy eating habits and give children a nutritious meal. Teach children to avoid unhealthy foods. Get used to read the composition of foods listed on the packaging. This can also be taught to children of school age, when he bought his own food that will consume.

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Fitness Expert Gives Top 10 Grocery Shopping Tips

October 12th, 2009

Grocery shopping can be such a nightmare, especially when you’re trying to lose weight. There are so many distractions, confusing labels, and all kinds of temptations.

What’s a person to do?

Here are my top 10 grocery shopping tips to keep you on track and fueling your body to achieve your goals.

1. Create a menu- if you fail to plan you plan to fail. Going to the store without your meal planned for the week is a sure fire way to fail. Take 30 minutes before heading out to check recipes for the necessities of the week.

2. Eat before you go- we have all heard that before but it is a proven fact that you will spend more purchasing unnecessary food if you shop on an empty stomach. You WILL be more tempted by the newest product or marketing gimmicks.

3. Perimeter shop- outside aisles of most grocery stores contains fresh produce, dairy and butcher sections. Fill your cart so there so it doesn’t allow room for the processed foods found in the center aisles.

4. Shop solo- it is quicker and there isn’t outside influence to go off the reservation.

5. Stick to your list- this saves your budget as well as your waistline. That what lists are for- TO FOLLOW.

6. Look for and avoid hidden sugars- these include corn syrup, dextrose, fructose, glucose, glucofrutose, honey, molasses, maple syrup, maltose, sucrose and artificial sweeteners. If you read labels carefully they will be easy to spot.

7. Read labels- The nutrition label will also list total grams of fat per serving along with amounts of saturated fat and cholesterol. Watch for and avoid palm and palm kernel oil, shortening, butter, chocolate, milk chocolate, cocoa butter, egg and egg yolk solids, lard, tallow, suet, whole-milk solids, glycerol esters, and mono-or-diglycerides.

8. Avoid man-made trans fats and saturated fats at all cost- trans fats are the worst artery-clogging, cancer-causing substance you can put in your body.

9. Always look for the highest fiber content products- especially in breads and cereals.

10. Be aware of “health” foods posing as healthy foods- to be fat-free, 33% less fat, low fat the manufactures must put something as a substitute to enhance the flavor. More often than not these products contain more hidden evils than the original.

Bonus Tip #11 – Join a local fitness boot camp that offers FREE grocery store tours. This can be a HUGE help. A quality tour will show you how to shop, where to spend your time and what to watch out for.

Grocery shopping when your trying to lose weight doesn’t have to be such a daunting task. Follow these ELEVEN tips and you’ll be sure to beat the grocery shopping demons.

Good luck and remember…

Have Faith & Take Action

Justin Yule, B.S., CPT is a local Chaska, MN and Online fitness boot camp instructor and personal trainer. He is also the author of The Science of Getting Fit: 6 Proven Steps to Achieve Your Weight Loss & Fitness Goals. You can learn more at www.JustinYule.com. To book him to speak at your local club, business, or organization, please contact him by email at jyule2@gmail.com or by phone at 952-956-2016.

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“Processed Food” – Is It A Healthy Option ??

March 12th, 2009

In today’s life, eradicating every pleasure in life is not the goal, nor it is realistic. All of us enjoy some sort of junk/ processed foods like burgers, pizzas, readymade soups, ready-to-eat foods etc.

  

But have you ever realized, that what could be the consequences if we make an Occasional treat to a Mainstay of our diet ?

  

Processed food is actually made from real food that has been  put through chemical processes and is infused with chemicals & preservatives . That is food that has been altered from the way in which nature presented it to us, in some kind of factory.

  

Three major queries that come to our mind when we go for these foods are :

  • What is added to them ? ,
  • Is it providing good nutrition?  and ,
  • Is it safe to consume?

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Let’s discuss about these Queries ………………..

  

It is amazing how many varieties of additives are added to food. Look at the label on any processed food can or jar, and see if you can recognize what is there in it, like:

  • Aspartame, Saccharine – Artificial Sweeteners
  • Benzoates, a Preservative found in juices, carbonated beverages
  • Colouring agents derived from coal tar
  • MSG (Mono Sodium Glutamate ) – Flavoring agent for Chinese food lovers
  • Nitrates/Nitrites – Preservatives

And many more…

They actually help to keep food last longer and to make it tasty, look and smell simply great! But do we ever think that how problematic it can be? They may cause nausea, allergic reactions, headache, mood swings, hyperactivity, depression, or even cancer.

  

In nature, if a food is stored long enough, it loses its nutritive qualities & is no longer fit for human consumption i.e. it spoils….  or insects & germs consume it. However, when the additives are added, the insects and germs find the food too poisonous and toxic therefore it would kill them if they ate it, so they don’t. The result is food does not "spoil". It remains as it is until we eat it. But the fact remains that the food value is gone.

  

  

Now, What is removed, during the processing or "refining" process?  Is much of the fibre and other nutrients. Vitamins, minerals etc are destroyed in the high heat used in the processing. Now you must be thinking that what are we eating then?

  

  

So, what are you waiting for ?? Begin to eliminate all these processed foods from your diet,  stay away from any food in a can, jar, packet or bottle on the shelf of a store. Either eat your food raw(salads) or cook it at home. Avoid anything that has gone through a factory since you don’t know what all has gone into it.

  

Start enjoying the real food -  Eat Healthy – Be Healthy….

  

 

 

Ms. RUCHITA VERMA

DIETICIAN

MAX HOSPITAL , PITAMPURA

 

 

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