It's all in the munch!
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Healthy eating is not about strict nutrition philosophies, staying unrealistically thin, or depriving yourself of the foods you love. Rather, it’s about feeling great, having more energy, and keeping yourself as healthy as possible. Choose the types of foods that improve your health and avoid the types of foods that raise your risk for such illnesses as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. Expand your range of healthy choices to include a wide variety of delicious foods. I love food, it was all a matter of finding the foods which worked best with my body, kept me as healthy as possible and gave me fuel to fire my day.
Sure, junk tastes great. Unfortunately we are deaf to the screams of our insides. Healthy food can taste great too, it just takes patience and practice....and hours in the kitchen. We have taught ourselves to prepare foods for the day ahead of time (portioned snacks pre-cut/washed), meal plan our main courses and cook together as a family. Nothing says I love you like a big plate of body friendly food!
Important!!
Have regular family meals.
Serve a variety of healthy foods and snacks.
Be a role model by eating healthy yourself.
Avoid battles over food.
Involve kids in the process.
Don't push your bad habits on your children. Most importantly, don't let your children be effected negatively by your fears. Children need a specific amount of food a day. You underfeed them, you are compromising their immune system, health and intelligence. Just because you do not have the optimal, does not mean your child should not. Make a change for everyone, its never too late.
POOR WEIGHT GAIN CAUSES IN CHILDREN
Poor weight gain is not a disease, but rather a symptom, which has many possible causes. The causes of poor weight gain include the following:
Not consuming an adequate amount of calories or not consuming the right combination of protein, fat, and carbohydrates
Not absorbing an adequate amount of nutrients
Requiring a higher than normal amount of calories
Poor weight gain can occur as a result of a medical problem, a developmental or behavioral problem, lack of adequate food, a social problem at home, or most frequently, a combination of these problems.
Over 12 months — Easily distracted at meal time; illness; new stress at home (divorce, job loss, new sibling, death in the family, etc.); social issues (underfeeding related to fear of overfeeding, limiting food choices, poverty).
Sure, junk tastes great. Unfortunately we are deaf to the screams of our insides. Healthy food can taste great too, it just takes patience and practice....and hours in the kitchen. We have taught ourselves to prepare foods for the day ahead of time (portioned snacks pre-cut/washed), meal plan our main courses and cook together as a family. Nothing says I love you like a big plate of body friendly food!
Important!!
Have regular family meals.
Serve a variety of healthy foods and snacks.
Be a role model by eating healthy yourself.
Avoid battles over food.
Involve kids in the process.
Don't push your bad habits on your children. Most importantly, don't let your children be effected negatively by your fears. Children need a specific amount of food a day. You underfeed them, you are compromising their immune system, health and intelligence. Just because you do not have the optimal, does not mean your child should not. Make a change for everyone, its never too late.
POOR WEIGHT GAIN CAUSES IN CHILDREN
Poor weight gain is not a disease, but rather a symptom, which has many possible causes. The causes of poor weight gain include the following:
Not consuming an adequate amount of calories or not consuming the right combination of protein, fat, and carbohydrates
Not absorbing an adequate amount of nutrients
Requiring a higher than normal amount of calories
Poor weight gain can occur as a result of a medical problem, a developmental or behavioral problem, lack of adequate food, a social problem at home, or most frequently, a combination of these problems.
Over 12 months — Easily distracted at meal time; illness; new stress at home (divorce, job loss, new sibling, death in the family, etc.); social issues (underfeeding related to fear of overfeeding, limiting food choices, poverty).
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