{"id":4963,"date":"2013-06-26T16:04:07","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T20:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/ourladyofweightloss\/?p=4963"},"modified":"2015-11-30T15:38:48","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T20:38:48","slug":"13-tips-end-childhood-obesity-one-household-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/ourladyofweightloss\/2013\/06\/13-tips-end-childhood-obesity-one-household-at-a-time.html","title":{"rendered":"13 Tips: End Childhood Obesity, One Household at a Time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Honor Your INNER CHUBBY CHILD by Janice Taylor, Self-Help Artist (art that invokes happy wisdom)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Healthy living, for adults or children alike, isn’t just about the foods that we eat.\u00a0 It’s about being positive, nurturing relationships, and much more.
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Here, Janice Taylor, Life and Wellness Coach, Weight Loss Expert and Our Lady of Weight Loss, the patron saint of permanent fat removal share thirteen (a baker’s dozen) tips that can help end childhood obesity, one household at a time!<\/p>\n

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1.\u00a0 Be A Wellness Role Model. <\/b>Lead by example.\u00a0 \u00a0<\/b>If you are overweight, your children’s risk of becoming an overweight adult is increased by 25% and, if both parents are overweight, the risk jumps to 50%.<\/p>\n

2.\u00a0 Be Positive.\u00a0 <\/b>Leave your judgment, lectures and nagging at the door.\u00a0 Encourage and support your children to live their best life.<\/p>\n

3.\u00a0 Erase the word ‘diet’ from your vocabulary<\/b>.\u00a0 The word diet is associated with deprivation.\u00a0 Instead of focusing on what is being ‘taken away,’ focus on the healthy bounty of exciting and delicious foods that you and your family can eat.<\/p>\n

4.\u00a0 Shop Together.<\/b> Ask for your children’s input. Sit down and create a shopping list that includes high-nutrient foods.\u00a0 If your child says, “I’d really like a chocolate donut.” See if you can include one sweet (perhaps, a one-oz. square of dark chocolate) along with a fruit salad into the day’s food plan. Should your child still want the donut, buy one tiny pack of pre-portioned mini-donuts.\u00a0 Do not keep an endless supply on hand.<\/p>\n

5.\u00a0 Read the Labels Together<\/b>. Learn the art of reading a food label! Teach yourself and your children. Pay attention to the ingredients, and of course, portion size. Steer away from ‘enriched’ products and foods that have ‘high fructose corn syrup’ in them. (Enriched means that everything good has been stripped out, and the manufacturer has to put something back into it lest it has no nutritional value. HFCS is simply unhealthy, in my opinion.)<\/p>\n

6.\u00a0\u00a0 Cook Together.<\/b>\u00a0 Cooking with your children not only encourages them to try healthy foods, but it builds self-esteem.\u00a0 Children feel like they are accomplishing something, and the skills they are building will stay with them for the rest of their life and be passed down to the next generation.\u00a0 That’s quite a legacy!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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7.\u00a0\u00a0 One New Healthy Food Each Week.<\/b>\u00a0 Introduce one new food to the family dinner table each week.\u00a0It will expand the entire family’s ‘food horizons,’ and you can use the new food as a topic of conversation.<\/p>\n

8.\u00a0\u00a0 Get Creative with Fruits and Veggies.<\/b> Find interesting ways to include fruits and veggies into your children’s food plan.\u00a0 Smoothies are always a good idea!\u00a0 For the truly creative and playful, place broccoli vertically in your mashed potatoes, so it looks like a tree, and then line the bottom of the mashed potatoes with peas.\u00a0 Pretend you are a dinosaur and devour all the trees and stones<\/i>!\u00a0\u00a0 This is not only for the littlest ones.\u00a0 My adult children still enjoy a tasty ‘scene.’<\/p>\n

9.\u00a0\u00a0 Drink Water.<\/b> Water is one of the most important and overlooked nutrients for our children.\u00a0\u00a0 Our bodies are 75% water, and a state of dehydration leads to a reduction in both mental and physical performance.\u00a0 Water helps to keep children healthy, helps them to perform better in school.<\/p>\n

10.\u00a0 Happy Mealtime.<\/b> Make mealtime a happy family time. Sit down and discuss the highlights of your day over a plethora of fresh vegetables, whole grains, and organic foods a plenty.\u00a0\u00a0 Do not eat while watching television or reading the paper.<\/p>\n

11.\u00a0 Healthy Breakfast.<\/b>\u00a0 Studies show that children who eat breakfast have fewer disciplinary problems, less visits to the school nurse, and they have a higher aptitude for problem solving.\u00a0\u00a0 They are more alert, more creative, have better hand-eye coordination, and are more physically active.<\/p>\n

12. Get Moving.<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0 Do you and your family gather round the television and snack together as you watch “The Biggest Loser?”\u00a0 Instead of eating mindlessly in front of the television, how about a good game of badminton or horseshoes in your back yard? How about joining or creating a family-bowling league?\u00a0 How about a game of twister?<\/p>\n

13.\u00a0 Love Trumps Fat.<\/b> Love your children. Witness the true beauty of the person who is standing before you and mirror it right back to him or her.<\/p>\n

For more wise, fun and utterly useful tips, join Our Lady of Weight Loss’s club:\u00a0 Facebook\/Kick in the Tush Club<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Spread the word\u2013NOT the icing,<\/p>\n

Janice Taylor
\nLife & Wellness Coach, Weight Loss Expert
\nWise * Fun * Utterly Useful<\/p>\n

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