Parents, Children and Nutrition

All parents want their children to be healthy. As elementary school aged children go through remarkable physical changes of all kinds, their food intake becomes a critical aspect of this growth and development. Recent research shows that nourishing food not only makes a child healthier, it makes him emotionally more stable, and it improves school performance. It appears then that paying attention to our children's diets pays high dividends. If only our children thought so, too! Because children tend to rank their parents' views on food along with their unpopular views on curfews, rock music, hair styles, etc., it is up to the parents to, first of all, be clever about insinuating nutritious foods into the family menus and, secondly, take a reasonable but hard line when other approaches fail.
Getting children to eat a variety of food containing adequate amount of protien, carbohydrates, vitamins and minerals every day, can be a challenge. You want your children to have healthy diets, but in today's world there are plenty of junk food choices available to them. High fat, high calorie, sugary and salty foods are the major culprits in children's diet. Children are losing out on valuable nutrition, so how can they grow into strong healthy adults. To be continued........