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Kids’ Nutrition
Did you know that there has been a proven correlation between parent and child eating habits? It’s time to make sure that the foods you are bringing into your home are wholesome, nutritional, and delicious. Over the course of a lifetime, eating habits tend to be hard to break, if necessary. Your eating habits have a definite impact on your child’s food preferences. When it comes down to the saying, “Practice what you preach,” you better not be drinking soda when you stress that milk is so important.
According to Sue Gilbert, a nutritionist, studies have found that kids who eat with mealtime company are slimmer. Slimmer moms and children talk more and eat slower than fatter children and their moms.
Although the tendencies of having our children “clear their plates” or no desert, is just to discipline them on not wasting food, it actually creates pressure to eat unwanted food. We should be teaching our children how to recognize hunger and when to act on it. A study done by Leann Birch showed that 95% of kids, who had a high calorie morning snack, ate less for lunch then after they had had a low calorie morning snack. Only 60% of adults did! If they don’t want to clear their plates, don’t make them.
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