Teach your children good. It depends on you whether your baby in my adult life overweight.

And why should it suddenly your toddler into a Hippo, you ask? It seems that neither you nor your husband nor the offspring of the grandparents had no problems with being overweight. Why, then, your toddler should be obese?

And here’s why. Themselves think about what food was on sale at the time of your youth, not to mention the young years of your parents? No “sneakers” or “McDonalds” or “lollipop” or “Sprite” was not even for hard currency. There are no temptations, but bored cookies “Jubilee.” Now go over the current shop and take a look at a few stalls on the way home from school. What’s selling? Here’s just it …

Children are arranged so that the most delicious for them seems very unhealthy food. Give them the will, they would eat some candy. Thank God, your child is not left to himself: he has parents who are able to protect it from excess fullness and the inevitable inferiority complex in the future. The main thing is that you do remember: the base figure slim and healthy just laid in early childhood. As the habit of good nutrition.

The plague of the 21st century

Fortunately for us, that the victorious advance of fast food in Russia began a decade ago. This means that our cuisine has not yet had time to finally surrender to the onslaught of the “fast food”. Otherwise we would have the same thing as in America, where, according to statistics, 35% of children aged 5 to 16 years are obese.

However, no one to blame for overeating that children face trouble ahead lose weight. Again, remember how boring on TV during the youth of our moms and dads. And it’s good if the TV was available. Now trying with might and main canals almost around the clock. A computer game consoles and «PlayStation», and the Internet? The modern entertainment industry, has done everything to ensure that the children all day sat in a cramped position in front of TV or computer and simultaneously eating potato chips. And it was at a tender age, when formed and the bones, and the foundation for future health and good habits, it is very important in sports. But show me a single modern child who in good faith after school go to the pool or at least a yard to play football!

It turns out that no one except you, the parents can not save the child. And do not assume that children will still be time to fix committed in the early life course error. Unfortunately, habits of nutrition is laid in childhood: if you fed your baby against the rules, and what will (for example, to whip up scrambled eggs cooked with fried potatoes), it is a food your child will be considered normal. And the idea of ​​a morning bowl of oatmeal, a glass of kefir or portions of stewed fish hardly ever visit it on his head.

Start from the beginning

An example for your child’s diet and healthy lifestyle should be as early as possible, right from the first days of his life. If you are breast-feeding a baby, remember that everything you eat, eat, and your baby. The quality of breast milk is made up of the mother received during the day mineral elements and vitamins, so you just have to eat all the rules. It would be naive to think that a glass of Coke and fried bacon magically transformed into a set of necessary infant substances.

However, the real difficulties will begin later when the child grows older and enters a taste for “adult” food. There is only one solution, namely, not prevaricate (persuading a child to eat more soup spoon for my father, a spoon for mom and at the same time in front of him eating Shawarma), but to be honest and also eat healthy. Children, even small notice a lot – more than you think. They pay attention not only to your words, but on your actions and make this unmistakable conclusion.

If you practice a passive lifestyle and attitude to food do not care, it is this way of life and unconsciously learn the child, believing it to normal. Indeed, how could he know that it is possible to live differently? You are his only light in the window. So try to use the full extent of 11-12 years before the time while you are still a place for your child’s unquestioned authority. And then he starts to listen to their peers and compare (for some reason is not always in your favor). In addition, he will become a conscious consumer advertising, but what she really taught him … For example, there is a luscious “shock” instead of school lunch.

First and foremost, make sure to it that the child ate regularly, exactly according to schedule. Be sure to Earn it full breakfast – cereals, dairy products, corn flakes with no additives, fresh fruit. And it does not allow late snacks. At night, digestion almost dies, and your child wakes up with a full stomach. What kind of breakfast! Do not forget that children need increased amounts of protein. This means not only meat patty, but also fish, beans, eggs, eggs and dairy products.

Always give your child to school lunch and watch it to dinner, coming home after school. Keep going to the “McDonald’s” to a minimum and in any case is not “rewarded” for five children in Russian hamburger. Otherwise, in his mind there a stable relationship between the “McDonald’s” and your encouragement. It would seem that the easiest way to buy in the supermarket meat products, for example, the same chops. However, semi-finished products are usually overloaded with fat and salt. It is best to feed your baby only home-made food.

To home cooking seemed appetizing, get your gray cells to work. For example, use the form for cutting biscuit sandwich and give it an interesting shape. Or strung on a skewer come toothpick pieces of meat, fruit, vegetables and cheese. And do not sit at home on the weekend – get out into nature, to cook meat over an open fire. Outdoors child work up an appetite and enjoy “grow wiser” above-plan portion of the barbecue with fresh vegetables, eat fruit and freshly cooked to your own zapet juice. And there is no “Coke” with you!

It is well known that the appetite comes with physical activity. So the second part of the program on improvement of power – to arrange child in sports or dance school. If the child moves a little, he begins to act up on food, showing unnecessary discrimination, usually insists on sweets. Conversely, when the baby is hungry, he simply accepts the bowl of oatmeal, cooked according to the rules of healthy eating.

When a child with your help, learn how to eat right, he later easily cope with a variety of temptations that await him in the “big” world. In fact, do not feed him cake, and he will remain indifferent to the rich selection of cafes and restaurants. Especially that “unhealthy” food much more accessible than healthy. Teach your child to minimize harm, even in a hopeless situation. For example, the entire company goes in, “McDonald’s”, and can not escape. You can eat a hamburger just chop out, giving up bread and sauce.

During the teenage emancipation in opposition to you and the world, your child will pounce on hot dogs and burgers. Do not panic! Healthy eating habits are not going anywhere. Your grown up son or daughter is sure to remember them at the time of personal maturity …