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Tips to Maintain Health of a Child

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Tips to Maintain Health of a Child

Healthy lifestyle is necessary in order to maintain a good health. Nowadayschildren are facing problems of obesity or overweight. It is because of the unhealthy habits that tend to cause these problems. Life has become so busy that often parents neglect the health needs of their children. It is important to set habits of your children in early age. Also as a parent, you must follow a healthy lifestyle for yourself because children usually follow their parents. If you are concerned about the health of your child, here we shall discuss a few of the tips in order to maintain the health of a child.

Eating Habits:

            It is recommended to eat a healthy breakfast because it is due to the breakfast that you remain charged up during the entire day. Everyweek, you may ask your children to plan and prepare a meal once. Also the entire family should eat together. It creates a sense of togetherness and love among children. Teach your children to eat slowly and chew the bite well. Research suggests that brain usually takes 20 minutes to tell the body that it is full. Soyour eating time must not be less than 20 minutes. Make fruits and vegetables part of your menu. Each day there must be fruit and vegetable on your dining table. In this way children will develop a habit of eating vegetables and fruits that they usually avoid. It is highly recommended to intake maximum liquid in the form of water and fresh juice. Also when you serve food to yourchildren, it is recommended to serve in small portions because that will excite a child to eat more.

Use of Cooking Oil:

It is recommended to use olive, canola or sunflower oil instead of processed oils .If you want to take snacks for your children, then it is better to choose the snacks that have better nutrients and energy. You can consult doctor as well for vitamin supplements that will help your children in growing.

Active:

            In order to make your child active, you must set a 30 to 60 minutes of physical activity. This physical activity will enable your child to be active throughout the day. So move your child as much as you can.They must not sit idle at one place. You can make your children move in their playtime. Select a sport or game that involves physical movement. In this way children will learn to remain fit in a fun way. It is recommended to be active in home by doing home chores that involve physical movement. You can assig duties to your children of dusting, gardening or walking with the pet dog.

Vacation Plan:

Most importantly when you plan to go on vacations, must add hiking in your plan. You will be able to burn the calories by doing these physical activities. Also set a limiting schedule for video games, TV and computer. Set time of 2 hours maximum for these static activities. Make them learn to focus more on physical activities. When you are out with your children in a shopping mall or any such place where there is an elevator, ask your children to use stairs instead of elevator. You can bring weight machines, stretch machine in your home and encourage your children to use the machines while watching TV.

Important Things to Consider:

            It is recommended to keep track of your eating activity that when you eat and how much you eat. Also track your physical activity in terms of type and time. Make your children learn to eat only on diningtable. They must not be eating while watching TV or driving. This will help them to focus on what and how much they are eating because while watching TV or driving, focus is diverted to other things. Make your children eat when they are hungry. Do not force them to eat even when they are full.

Liquid Intake:

 It is important to intake liquid so if you are taking liquid other than water then make sure that the drink has minimum calories. Oftenthere is a time when your child feel depressed, stressed or down due to any reason so I this situation do not make your child eat. Instead bring your child outside to play any sport or walk with your child.

Often children are called with their nick names but it is recommended to first ask our child then what name he/she wants him/herself to be called with. For instance lliana bird is name of your child so you may call her a bird with her permission.

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