How to Maintain Good Eating Habit for Children

Parents have a big role in keeping their children healthy. This is one of their ultimate goals, and once achieved, no one can ever compare the feeling of knowing and seeing that your children are enjoying the gift of good health. Children with good health are those who are active in their daily life activities not just physically but mentally as well. As your children grow, there are lots of things a parent should learn and must do in keeping them healthy.

First, developing a good eating habit for growing children should be monitored by most parents. Let your children enjoy, and make them understand the importance of eating nutritious foods. Of course it should be done together with daily physical activities. Show them that what you are telling to them comes first from you by setting yourself as an example. The key to healthy living are eating variety of healthy and balance food like vegetables, fruits, foods rich in carbohydrates and protein rich food. Drink water to quench your thirst. Limit foods that are high in saturated fats, sodium, sugar and cholesterol.

Here are some important tips on how to help your children develop healthy eating habits and be physically healthy:

• Spending time eating with your family specifically with your kids with nutritious food on the table is a big help for them to enjoy the food that you serve. Make sure that you set time for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. 
• Be aware and make sure that you monitor your children’s meals or snacks and their physical activities so that you can balance the amount of nutritious intake of your children as well as their physical activities that they perform. 
• Choose a variety of foods. Make sure that you serve different kinds of nutritious food on the table since no single food can provide all the nutrients needed in the body. Encourage each member of the family to eat nutritious food every single day. These include bright colored fruits and vegetables, a glass of fresh fruit juice and vegetables. Salad can be served for lunch. Some fruits for snacks in the afternoon. A slice of an apple will do. 
• When shopping, limit yourself in buying unhealthy food such as candies, chocolates, junk foods and soda. Instead, purchase group of foods that are included in the food pyramid like GO, GLOW and GROW foods. 
• Educate your kids about nutritious food and its vital role in our body 
• Never offer to substitute an unhealthy food if your kids refused to eat what you have served. 

There are lots of things parents can do to keep their children healthy. Choosing the right food, proper nutrition and perfect education are enough to help your children combat the challenge of life. Bear in mind that the key to obtain the goal of keeping children healthy is in the hands of a responsible parents.