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Tips to help your children develop healthy eating habits
By David R Donohue, MA
Now it's winter, parents must be involved in the creation and maintaining healthy eating habits for children, ™ € ve You've probably read in the newspapers and seen on television news: the number of children and adolescents suffering from obesity has continued to skyrocket over the last two decades. You may be wondering: Why physicians and scientists concerned about this trend? And as parents or other adults interested, you can also ask: What can we do to help prevent obesity and overweight in our children? This article provides answers to some questions you may have and provides resources to help keep your family healthy and balanced diet.
- Why Obesity infant health problems?
- What can I do as a parent or guardian to help prevent overweight children?
- Want More?
Childhood obesity is considered a Livelong problem?
Doctors and scientists are concerned about the rise of obesity among children and youth because obesity can cause problems Health:
- Heart disease, caused by:
- high cholesterol and / or
- hypertension blood
- Diabetes type 2
- Asthma
- Sleep Apnea
- Social discrimination
Childhood obesity is associated with various aspects of health consequences. Obese children may have some immediate consequences for health and May at risk for weight, health problems in adulthood.
Psychosocial risks
Some of consequences of childhood and adolescent overweight are psychosocial. Obese children and adolescents are victims of social discrimination early and systematically. The psychological stress of social stigmatization can cause low self-esteem which, in turn, can hinder academic and social functioning, and persist to age adult.
The risk of cardiovascular disease
The obese children has been found that the risk factors for disease Cardiovascular disease (CVD), including high cholesterol, hypertension and abnormal glucose tolerance. In a sample population 5 – to 17-year-old nearly 60% of overweight children had at least one cardiovascular risk factor, while 25 percent of overweight children had two or more Risk factors for CVD.
The main health risks for children
A health conditions associated with less frequent weight gain include asthma, hepatic steatosis, sleep apnea and type 2 diabetes.
- Asthma is a disease lung in which Airways blocked or reduced causing breathing difficulties. Studies have shown an association between overweight and childhood asthma.
- Fatty liver is fatty degeneration of the liver caused by high concentrations of liver enzymes. The reduction weight makes the liver enzymes to normal.
- Sleep apnea is a less common complication of overweight children and adolescents. Sleep apnea is a sleep disorder associated with breathing is defined as the cessation of breathing during sleep that lasts at least 10 seconds. Apnea sleep is characterized by snoring and breathing very difficult. During sleep apnea, oxygen levels in the blood can fall sharply. One study estimated that sleep apnea occurs in approximately 7% of overweight children.
- Type 2 diabetes is increasingly reported in Children and adolescents who are overweight. Although diabetes and glucose intolerance, a precursor of diabetes are the health effects of current obesity in adults than in recent years, type 2 diabetes began to emerge as a problem related to health among children and adolescents. The onset of diabetes in children and adolescents can lead to complications such as advanced heart disease and renal failure.
In addition, studies have shown that obese children are more likely to become obese adults.
Is childhood obesity Livelong considered a problem?
Helping your child maintain a healthy weight, a balance between the calories your child eats foods and beverages with calories in which your child through physical activity and growth normal.
Remember that the goal for overweight children and obese adolescents is to reduce the rate of weight gain while allowing growth normal development. Children and teenagers should not be placed on a diet to lose weight without consulting a health care provider.
Balancing Calories: helping children develop healthy eating habits
A portion of the balance of caloric intake is to eat foods that provide adequate nutrition and enough calories. You can help children learn to be aware of what they eat, developing healthy eating habits, looking for ways to create healthy meals and reduce high calorie temptations.
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There € ™ s not a big secret to eating healthy. Recently, in a Big Ten-sponsored mixed football and tailgate release with two children, my friend and I had major problems in the infant due a healthy meal. To help children and families to develop healthy eating habits to consider the following guidelines:
- Provide lots of vegetables, fruits and whole grain products.
- Include milk or low fat or nonfat dairy products.
- Choose meat lean meat, poultry, fish, lentils and beans for protein.
- Serving portions. (N calibration Super)
- Encourage your family to drink plenty of water.
- Limit sugar-sweetened drinks. Soft drinks and juices
- Limit consumption of sugar and fat saturated.
Remember that small changes each day can lead to a recipe for success!
For more information on nutrition, visit href = "http://www.health.gov/dietaryguidelines/dga2005/document/pdf/brochure.pdf"> Find your way to good health self: Based on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans.
Find ways to make meals healthier.
The recipes that you can regularly prepare and enjoy his family, with only minor changes may be in better health and also satisfactory. For new ideas on how to add more fruits and vegetables to your diet daily to check the database FruitsandVeggiesMatter.gov revenue. This database allows you to find fruit and vegetable recipes tailored to your needs.
Delete-calorie temptations rich!
Despite everything that can be enjoyed in moderation, reduced-calorie temptations of snacks high in fat and high in sugar or salt can also help their children develop healthy eating habits. Instead of allowing their children to eat sometimes, for truly it is! Examples easy to prepare, low fat and low in sugar is 100 calories or less:
- A block size means
- Medium size banana
- 1 cup blueberries
- 1 cup raisins
- 1 cup carrots, broccoli, peppers or 2 c. soup. hummus
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