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Child Weight
How Balanced Is Your Child’s Lunchbox?
All your efforts to help your child eat well and maintain a healthy weight will fail if they eat wrong for lunch. School cafeteria do not always provide healthy food. A balanced lunchbox is the answer. Be sure that your child's nutrients…
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Kids Overeat Due To Boredom
New research from the Aston University found that bored children, as young as four, consume 79% more calories than when they’re in a neutral mood. The researchers found that if parents reported using food to soothe their child’s emotions…
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Avid, Happy, Typical And Fussy Kids
According to new research from Aston University, UK, children fall broadly into four eating categories, and parents feed their children differently depending on those categories. The four categories are 'avid', 'happy', 'typical', and…
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Adapt & Tweak To Boost Nutrition
Adapting certain recipes can help boost nutritional value for your children’s lunch box meals. You could add chia seeds, flaxseed oil, greens, extra chopped vegetables, nuts, seeds, herbs and spices to your dishes. Get creative. Make…
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Begin Meals With Low-Fat Foods
Too much fat in a diet can push out the healthier items. If children fill up first on fried foods and snacks, there will be less room and less desire for the healthy parts of the diet, like fruit and veggies. It makes sense to start your…
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Get Kids To Be Excited About Healthy Foods
Encouraging children to eat healthy foods can be a challenge, but it doesn't have to be. There are several ways to make eating healthy meals and snacks more exciting for kids:
Lead by example. Eating healthy yourself is one of the best…
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Plenty Of Daily Goodness
When it comes to daily meals of children in your family, two-thirds of the plate should be made up of fruit and vegetables and starchy foods. Fruit and vegetables should be fresh, cooked, or raw, and starchy foods include cereals, breads …
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Do Things For A Reason…
Like adults, children from the age of around eight prefer to do things for a reason rather than because they've been told what to do. Teach children that choosing only the fun foods may make the overall diet short on essentials. In the same…
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Cut Down On Fats
Don’t deny kids fun foods. But do cut down on fat to reduce calories. Switch to oven chips rather than deep fries, and dollop fresh or frozen natural yoghurt on your berries instead of cream or ice cream. Cut visible fat from meat, skin…
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How Much Exercise Should Your Child Have?
Younger children are better suited to short bursts of exercise throughout the day, instead of one long session that would tire them out. Some kids remain charged up from morning to night, but most prefer intermittent activity, with…
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