If your child is overweight, he or she is subject to many serious health risks, including asthma, bone and joint problems, and even cancer. As responsible parents, you should prevent obesity by improving your child’s diet and lifestyle.

1. Six Steps for Parents to Childhood
Obesity at Home
TAYLOR GREEN | 12TH AUGUST 2016
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2. Some Of The Main Causes Of Child Obesity
Unhealthy diet—like junk food, soda, snacking, and sugary drinks
Lack of physical activity
Genetics
Medical conditions, like hypothyroidism
Inadequate sleep
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3. Promote Healthy Eating Habits:
Change your child’s unhealthy habits before they become a comfortable routine. Simply bring
healthy foods into your home while keeping unhealthy food out. In this way, you can encourage
healthy eating habits, even for the pickiest children. Undertake these changes to ensure your
child follows a healthy diet:
Minimize shopping for unhealthy food in bulk
Add lean meats, fish, poultry and lentils for protein
Encourage your child to drink 8-10 glasses of water a day
Warn kids about beverages high in sugar
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4. Limit Their Consumption of Junk Food
Follow these steps to reduce your child’s junk food intake:
Don’t ban junk food all at once.
Stop bringing junk foods into the home. This way, your kids don’t have access to them.
Make delicious meals at home.
Stop giving them unhealthy snacks/beverages as a reward.
Keep healthy snacks readily available.
Go for Healthy “Substitutes”:
Replace fatty meats with lean protein and seafood.
Replace butter and margarine with olive oil and coconut oil.
Replace croutons with walnuts in salads.
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5. Set an Example:
To make the above-mentioned habits easy for your child to implement, set an example by
following a healthy diet while avoiding junk food yourself. That will encourage your child to eat
healthily and imitate and follow the behavior of elders, especially parents.
Dine with your child and keep meals and snacks in balanced portions; have plenty of green
veggies and fresh fruits; eat calorie-rich desserts and snacks in moderation. Eat at home and
pack healthy lunches in front of your child who is going off to school or on a picnic. When eating
out, choose the restaurant that provides healthy meals.
Your healthy eating habits will be transferred to your child over time, helping him or her
maintain a healthy weight.
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6. Educate Your Children about Nutrition:
Children can make good choices if they have knowledge of nutrition and healthy food. They
must know the effect of the food they are consuming. However, teaching them to eat healthy
can be complicated if it involves too many details. Instead, you can convey your message in a
playful way so that learning about healthy eating sounds like fun to them rather than a lecture.
At the grocery store, tell them the benefits of green veggies.
Use picture books that provide information about nutrition and healthy eating in the story line.
Discuss with them what they read.
Encourage them to play smartphone games, like Healthy Food Monsters, Healthy Heroes, and
Healthy Eating with Diana.
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7. Contact US
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Resource: http://www.organwiseguys.com/blog/childhood-obesity-at-home/
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8. Thank You
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