Child Weight

Getting children to eat well, exercise regularly and maintain a healthy lifestyle is sometimes challenging. Media reports suggest that childhood obesity is increasing, but if you feel your child is becoming overweight, is it right to put…
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Limit children’s intake of foods high in saturated fat such as many biscuits, cakes, pastries, pies, processed meats, commercial burgers, pizza, fried foods, potato chips, crisps and other savoury snacks. Replace high fat foods which…
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If your child is a couch potato, and if you have a pet at home, then you have found a way to make the kid move. Hand them the task of walking the dog. It will be a good workout for both of them!
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Increase the amount of physical activity in which the child participates. This is the best approach to weight loss. Tweak the child’s meals and snacks a little to help them control weight. For example, offer fresh fruit instead…
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When you teach your children to eat healthy right from the beginning, they will choose healthy when they have more autonomy in their food choices as adolescents, which will go on to influence their weight status as adults. They will choose…
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Highly processed foods are loaded with chemicals, synthetic fats, additives, artificial sweeteners, and food colourings. Unfortunately, you can't keep these foods out of the diets of your children forever. But if you limit exposure while…
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Make sure that your kids eat foods from all of the food groups each day. This is a great way to ensure they are getting all the nutrients their growing bodies need and keep them fit and lean. It helps to ward off any diet deficiencies.…
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Make the kids use the stairs instead of the elevator or escalator. These are great conveniences, but they make us very lazy. While the older you get, the more you prefer the elevator or escalator, but there is no reason why the children…
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Introduce your kids to more and more healthful ingredients, but do it gradually. Think of all that is natural, interesting, nutritious and helps create variety. Start adding flours like ragi, emmer wheat, quinoa, buckwheat and others,…
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Sleep needs to be one of your most important family values. A study published in the journal ‘Frontiers in Psychology’ suggests that this is because more parental sleep is related to more child sleep, which is connected with lowered chances…
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