trickshealthy - 5 Tips to Health and Weight Loss for Kids
- Role Model
Your health and weight directly effect your child's health and weight. Children with just one overweight parent have a 25% risk of becoming an overweight or obese adult. If both parents are overweight the risk of becoming an overweight adult jumps to 50% - Be Positive
No one enjoys receiving negative feedback. Talk to your child with compassion and encouragement. Instead of saying, Lose Weight say Let's be healthy and start taking care of our bodies. Focus on the foods you can eat, not the ones that you cannot say. Let's go pick out fruits and make a fruit salad, not, don't eat that - Eat Breakfast
A Breakfast that consists of protein, starch and fat will keep your children more alert during school. Studies have shown that weight loss is much more difficult in people who skip breakfast - Don't Say Diet
Put your child on any diet and you are setting them up for an eating disorder, whatever binge eating or closet eating or another type of disorder. Lifestyle changes have proven to be the most effective to lose weight and keep it off - Make Healthy Eating a Family Affair
A Family that eats together, eats better, according to a recent study in the journal archives of family medicine. Children who report frequent family dinners have healthier diets than their peers who don't. the study showed. Also fill your refrigerator and cabinets with fresh fruits, nuts, low fat cheese, and things for everyone to snack on






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