Happy kids, Healthy Kids- Feed Kids Healthy Food

Eat together
1. Family meals are a reassuring routine for the whole family
2. Eat well-balanced and well-proportioned
Healthy food builds children who think more clearly, are less prone to illness, and are stronger.
1. Children who eat healthfully may live longer, healthier lives
2. can prevent obesity
Serve a vaeriety of food
1. Don't serve always the same menu
  1. Always put fruits and vegetables
2. Change and purchase a food
3. Try to aim for different colors and textures
Avoid processed foods
1. Processed foods
2. Refined products
  3. Are easily overeaten, stored as fat, and cause rapid changes in blood sugar
3. Whole grains, nuts, and honey have more staying power and are digested more slowly so that they provide the energy a child needs to make it through the day
Keep healthy foods convenient
1. Have fruits and vegetables pre-washed and ready on the counter
2. Limit portions. Teach your children moderation, and practice it yourself
  1. Show them what an appropriate portion size is for them, and teach them self control when they want more.
3. For example: ; popcorn, potato chips, and cookies are harder to stop eating.
Don't link emotion with food
1. Many times parents reward children with food
  1. 1. If done too often it can cause children to link food with behavior, and tying an emotion to food may create problems later on
    2. Who feed their children highly processed foods, and who reward children with food, leave their kids susceptible to obesity.
2. Make it a healthful choice
  1. Making them their favorite healthful dinner
  2. Low-fat frozen yogurt

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