How to Include Healthy Food Habits in Kids
Basic fact that everyone has to understand is that you can't force a kid to develop a liking towards eating fresh and natural foods and follow healthy food habits., To start with just make a note of the diet routine for a week i.e., the kind of food...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Basic fact that everyone has to understand is that you can't force a kid to develop a liking towards eating fresh and natural foods and follow healthy food habits.
Just make a chart of the food with their nutrition values.
Mark with * those food which is getting repeated for the maximum time within the week.
These food items has to be given prime importance during the analysis step. , There is a nutrition gap if your diet routine lacks fruit.
Fruit is so valuable in the diet that you should make Fruit every day as one of your home mottoes.(why it is important ? find the answer in tips) What kind of fruits should I include in my diet? , Try finding the seasonal fruit available during the period try including those in the diet.
Apple can be one fruit that can add more value to healthy lifestyle.
You will be aware of this statement.."an apple a day keeps the doctor away"..this is really true.
Citrus fruits like orange and grape are rich in vitamins which required for the proper nutrient diet.
Why does fruit sometimes disagree with us? how can we feed it to kids? If we eat too much unripe fruit or if the fruit is not fresh, it may not agree with us.
Cooked fruit can be taken by some people who cannot eat it raw, because the cooking softens the fruit and kills bacteria that might cause some trouble.
Cooked fruit is better for little children than raw fruit.
Fruit juice again.
Clear fruit juice squeezed from the pulp
- orange juice, for instance
- is given to very young children, who ought not to eat the pulp, and to invalids sometimes Eat fruits separately don't eat along with the food for better vitamin absorption ,,, You can serve milk hot or cold .For kids adding dates and little of honey will increase the value of milk. , Follow the steps below First of all, don't make your diet routine boring by repeating the same diet.
Classify the days in the week with its own food habits for your kids without they knowing they are following a diet.
This will make them love eating those foods Try different variety in the healthy food you make.
Make it more easy to eat and add some taste to it.( can use honey instead of sugar) ,, Make separate plan for breakfast,lunch,dinner,fruit and liquid items to be included for each day of the week.
This will be a weekly chart.
You can repeat the chart diet to the next week .For example the breakfast of Monday can be changed to Wednesday..Similarly the lunch ,dinner and fruits for the day.
This will make the diet more flexible and not boring to the kids ,they should love the food they eat or else it is not going to serve purpose. ,,,, Do simple workouts along with them.
Guide them in some ground games which spends some energy.These activities will compliment the food habit. , -
Step 2: To start with just make a note of the diet routine for a week i.e.
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Step 3: the kind of food you are feeding your kid.
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Step 4: With the chart as reference you can do the following analysis You will find most of the unhealthy diet routine will lack fruit in it.
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Step 5: The answer we can get it from nature which provides with lots of seasonal fruit.
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Step 6: Next step in the analysis will be to look for fast foods .Try to avoid much of the fast foods (might be tastier..but adds more toxins).Better to include steam- cooked foods.
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Step 7: Find whether the chart includes green vegetables may be cooked or raw(for example
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Step 8: spinach)
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Step 9: and also for vegetables (for example
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Step 10: carrot) try to make these as part of the diet.
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Step 11: For growing children milk is a key ingredient
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Step 12: the source of calcium and protein.
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Step 13: Based on these observations from chart
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Step 14: now the task will be to change the diet routine accordingly by making a new chart.
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Step 15: Make sure the new chart includes at least one fruit a day
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Step 16: Breakfast
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Step 17: lunch and dinner is not repeated with same food.
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Step 18: You are not feeding more of fried items to the kids .Make them get used to taste of fresh foods..in long run their taste will be inclined towards fresh foods rather than unhealthy foods.
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Step 19: Offer more of fresh juices rather than soft drinks to quench thirst.
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Step 20: Insist the kid to drink at least 1.5-2 liters (for kids) 3 liters (for adults) of water daily.
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Step 21: give importance to exercises.
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Step 22: Give equal importance to the hobbies like music
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Step 23: which is required for the physical and mental well being.
Detailed Guide
Just make a chart of the food with their nutrition values.
Mark with * those food which is getting repeated for the maximum time within the week.
These food items has to be given prime importance during the analysis step. , There is a nutrition gap if your diet routine lacks fruit.
Fruit is so valuable in the diet that you should make Fruit every day as one of your home mottoes.(why it is important ? find the answer in tips) What kind of fruits should I include in my diet? , Try finding the seasonal fruit available during the period try including those in the diet.
Apple can be one fruit that can add more value to healthy lifestyle.
You will be aware of this statement.."an apple a day keeps the doctor away"..this is really true.
Citrus fruits like orange and grape are rich in vitamins which required for the proper nutrient diet.
Why does fruit sometimes disagree with us? how can we feed it to kids? If we eat too much unripe fruit or if the fruit is not fresh, it may not agree with us.
Cooked fruit can be taken by some people who cannot eat it raw, because the cooking softens the fruit and kills bacteria that might cause some trouble.
Cooked fruit is better for little children than raw fruit.
Fruit juice again.
Clear fruit juice squeezed from the pulp
- orange juice, for instance
- is given to very young children, who ought not to eat the pulp, and to invalids sometimes Eat fruits separately don't eat along with the food for better vitamin absorption ,,, You can serve milk hot or cold .For kids adding dates and little of honey will increase the value of milk. , Follow the steps below First of all, don't make your diet routine boring by repeating the same diet.
Classify the days in the week with its own food habits for your kids without they knowing they are following a diet.
This will make them love eating those foods Try different variety in the healthy food you make.
Make it more easy to eat and add some taste to it.( can use honey instead of sugar) ,, Make separate plan for breakfast,lunch,dinner,fruit and liquid items to be included for each day of the week.
This will be a weekly chart.
You can repeat the chart diet to the next week .For example the breakfast of Monday can be changed to Wednesday..Similarly the lunch ,dinner and fruits for the day.
This will make the diet more flexible and not boring to the kids ,they should love the food they eat or else it is not going to serve purpose. ,,,, Do simple workouts along with them.
Guide them in some ground games which spends some energy.These activities will compliment the food habit. ,
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