| Prevent Obesity in Children | | | | intake. |
| Eat together and make family meals a sharing | | | | Get up and move with your children. |
| experience. Talk about your day or plan your | | | | Any exercise is a good way to burn calories. Skip, |
| next vacation. Great times can be had and shared | | | | jump rope, play hide and seek. Adding a little exercise |
| around a dinner table. Limit eating out; restaurant | | | | into your daily routine and that of your child will |
| menus tend to be higher in calories. If you do eat | | | | always result in a healthier lifestyle. |
| out, make it only for special occasions instead of a | | | | Set an example and make healthy eating a family |
| weekly event. Talk about what you will eat before | | | | affair. Children are much more apt to follow your lead. |
| you go to the restaurant. | | | | If you are leading a healthy lifestyle then it will be |
| Develop a plan as a family as to how you can have | | | | much easier for you to enforce healthy eating habits |
| healthy eating habits. Teach your kids how to eat | | | | with your children. By committing to healthy habits as |
| healthy and let them help plan meals. Let the children | | | | a family, everyone can support and encourage each |
| help cook. Make it a fun time where everyone | | | | other. Making small changes now can mean a big |
| pitches in. Watch how proud children are of their | | | | difference in everyone's life and will give your child |
| accomplishments. | | | | the best chance of maintaining a healthy weight |
| Make grocery shopping a fun experience. Children can | | | | during their adult years. |
| help make the list and find the items in the grocery | | | | According to a study on Pediatric, 26% of world |
| store. Put colorful food on the table: green and | | | | children ages 2 to 17 are overweight, making obesity |
| yellow vegetables plus brown (whole grain) breads. | | | | seem like an epidemic. The are several key factors |
| This can be the food that your child helped to pick | | | | that you can implement in order to raise a healthy |
| out. | | | | child and prevent early obesity, which can lead to |
| Pack your child's lunch for school. A school lunch of | | | | greater health risks for the rest of their life. |
| all-beef hot dog on a whole-grain bun, low-fat milk, | | | | You are to look after your child and child to follow |
| baked fries and an orange contains 764 calories and | | | | you. |
| 26.9 fat grams, not to mention sodium or sugar | | | | |