Five A Day – Making Kids Nutritional Programs Fun

Fat kids are hitting the headlines again.The British government is worrried about the growing number of five year olds (about 25%) who are already overweight. They claim that this could affect life expectancy if the trend is allowed to continue. Other experts say that this is an exaggeration and that these levels of obesity will NOT affect the mortality rate.

By discovering a nutritional health program for kids early on means they have the basis for a healthy lifestyle right into adulthood. If kids are involved in fun activities and learning fun facts about food, then this means they are on the right road in keeping to a nutritonal health program for the rest of their lives.

Kids are bombarded with food ads every year – in fact they see about 20,000 of them ! These food ads are not really into healthy nutritional programs as they are concerned with brainwashing kids and making money. Kids are hungry all the time, it seems. Most snack foods are loaded with trans fats, sugar and salt which is not exactly healthy. So much so that recent research shows that hyperactivity and ADHD in kids could be caused by these food additives and colourings.

Getting kids to help you in the litchen is a great way of involving them and making them aware of what they eat. Kids love to try cooking and have great fun in eating what they have prepared. Their spirit of adventure is greater than we think and if they follow our boring choices, then we only have ourselves to blame.

When parents are diffident about what they eat, kids beome very choosy. Parents need to exploit their kids’ curiosity about food and the best way to do this is to be really enthusiastic about what yu are eating. Then they will more than likely want to try it. As a family we should always eat together- research shows that teenagers who were on a healthy nutritional program had always eaten with the family.

Why do kids always choose the same old boring things on the kids’ menus? Fact is they are just repeating the same old routine and going for the fish fingers and chicken nuggets which they always have at home ! Again, being enthusiastic about food is a great way for parents to get them out of the rut. Another way is to not let them choose from the kids’ menu but to have somrthing with you from the normal menu – in this way they can be involved in the choice.

A study just published by the University of Minnesota found that when healthy and nutritional school lunches were served, there was no drop off in sales. Schools have to adjust in the training of staff and changing kitchens but these results are encouraging. They also try to serve a turkey low-fat hot dog instead of the traditional one and the kids like them.

Getting out your blender and using it for kids recipes is a great way of getting them into a healthy nutritional prrogram without them even knowing. As we all know, kids are not all that keen on fruit and vegetables but a lot of smoothie rcipes are really delicious and kids will go for them. These are way better than a bottle of soda.

About the Author: Robert William Locke

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