The Power of Teaching Kids to Cook

Do your children understand the importance of the food that they eat? Are they learning to take responsibility for creating a healthy body?  Are you as a parent steering them along a great healthy path?

Take a look at this video to get some really good ideas about starting your children on a happy healthy pathway.  You as a parent may also learn some important life lessons.

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Turning the tide on childhood obesity.

This is a talk about the issues that children face being obese. While this is an issue that leads to adult obesity, it has it’s own issues and should be treated differently. Denise E. Wilfley, Ph.D. is an international authority in the etiology, prevention, and treatment of eating disorders and obesity, and has devoted her career to improving the lives and health of children and their families. She is the Scott Rudolph University Professor of Psychiatry, Medicine, Pediatrics, and Psychological & Brain Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and has received over 20 years of continuous research funding from the National Institutes of Health.

Kids And Television-Video Games

Isn’t so hard to handle when you know that your child is suffering from weight problems? It is the reason why most parents prefer to engage their children in various types of fitness programs. Childhood obesity has several implications to the body. The one of them, who commonly encounter this type of health problem, normally have reduced self-esteem. Did you know that watching television or playing video games for many hours may lead to weight gain, more that your kid would wish?  This is definitely true and you should avoid this instantly. Read the succeeding paragraphs and identify how it contributes to weight gain and childhood obesity. Read more

Big food portions can lead to Obesity?

In nowadays it’s easy for everyone to see that portion sizes are expanding with a rapid pace. Doctors and dietary experts often recommend having an extra awareness for the amount of the food they are eating, which seems to be raised drastically over the last 20 years.

Beginning from the decade of 80’s, sizes of packaged foods started increasing, as it began as an effort by food vendors who seek to gain a greater piece of the market than their competitors. By doing that, they was advertised the concept that it was good for them when with the same amount of money they could buy larger quantities of food. And so consumers, targeting the best for their money, began to combine the money spent in relation to the amount of food and not the quality of this. Read more

Bad nutrition and Obese Kids

Poor and unhealthy nutrition have the power to affect emotional state, self-esteem, and school performance of the child along with bodyweight and health conditions that may arise. Good nutrition will fuel you child with energy to cause them feel good enough to get started on engaged in physical exercises and activities, an essential component of weight and fat reduction and a healthier lifestyle.

Unfortunately, according to the Department of Health and Human Services there are a quite large number of high school students (almost 80%) that usually don’t include the correct and so necessary amounts of fruits and vegetables in their daily diet regiment. Read more

Causes of childhood obesity – An overview

There are four key aspects that have the most impact in to how much a child gain weight or not: diet, physical exercise or activity, environment, and genes.Most of these variables frequently take place in combination; as an illustration, bad eating routine together with insufficient exercise.  Eating and working out definitely have the greatest role on how much weight our body possesses. Additionally, the environmental surroundings where our children are living are affecting the things they eat as well as how frequently they exercise. Inherited genes that transferred from the parents to their kids and complications with inner systems that influence the producing of natural body hormones are also be the cause in an increase in weight. Read more