Parents appear to be finally listening to the nutrition experts and giving their children more nutritious snacks, according to a report in USA Today. Well, good on us. Maybe we can actually make progress toward turning the tide on this frightening obesity wave. It's become a public policy issue affecting everything from school performance to the workplace to health insurance. Have you made positive changes in your children's nutrition? How are you doing it?
Fruit is now the No. 1 snack given to children, dropping cookies to No. 2 for the first time. It was interesting to note that parents most often choose snacks for their kids based on what they, themselves, were given as children. That's all well and good if you were fortunate to be very active, have genes for high-speed metabolism or smart parents who practiced great nutrition. Often we say, what was good enough for us should work for our kids. But don't forget, most of us as kids were getting more play time and more P.E. classes in school and most likely were not spending hours and hours on our bottoms staring at monitors every day, as so many of today's children are.
Maybe we have turned the corner in this one area, and kids are on their way to healthier habits. Today, fruits -- tomorrow veggies? Now, if we parents could just get our own dietary habits straighted out. Now, that's a real challenge, usually a case of "don't do as I do, do as I say."
I think the starting-point is to drink lots of water, and avoid corn sweetener, it has been a dibolical experiment gone awry, Harpers Index reports; in 1900 Americans on average ate 6 lbs. of sugar per year, last year that number had grown to 156 lbs.! (mostly corn sweetener.)...how about Home Ec. as a requirement? re-introduce kids to the kitchen
I am on the if she gets hungry enough she will eat something we have. Sometimes I feel bad cause she won't eat but I know she will eat eventually. As long as she is not unhealthy this is what I have to do to get her to try things so she will learn to like healthier foods.