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Advice on child Weight Loss
What can I do for children who eat a lot?
(12 Jun 2007)
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As much as junk food, goodies, and confectioneries are to blame for children being overweight, it’s the parents who influence what goes on their platter. It’s important that you control what your children eat and inculcate the right eating habits in them from childhood. And it’s not just the overeating that contributes to the excessive weight.
Overeating combined with television, video games and computer games have brought down the physical exercise level of kids to almost nil. With these factors, getting your child to eat a healthy and balanced diet gets as difficult as getting them to play sports. But it is very important for their future health and development that you correct their eating and exercising habits.
Restricting their diet may encourage binge mentality. So, the right thing to do would be make them eat the right things. Kids get fascinated by attractive things, so make the platter look attractive! Decorate the plate of fruits or add healthy toppings as a garnish. Fruits like peaches, pineapples, berries, and oranges look attractive, are tasty and healthy too. You can add these to vegetables and salads and serve them to your children. You can make tasty fruit salads and add low fat creams and jellies. Your children would also love smoothies and milkshakes of fruits with some nice toppings, or something with limited sugar. Another thing you can do is eat the same things that you give your children. Restrict your own intake of junk food. Children often tend to imitate the parents’ habits and it would be unfair to put them through a restrictive diet alone. Another important thing to do would be, making sure that your children do not watch TV while eating. They tend to get carried away and eat more than they should.
You also need to encourage your children to drink about six glasses of water everyday. Replace sodas and carbonated drinks with fresh fruit juices. Never ever reward them good food for any achievement of theirs. It could send out a wrong signal. Since they have impressionable minds, they’ll be influenced by what they learn. Other than the diet, physical exercise is of utmost importance in your children’s weight loss. Take the children on outdoor excursions regularly and encourage them to exercise. Make them run, jog, race, and be active. Make it a routine to go on family walks, jogs, or any other physical exercise. Have patience, follow the tips given above and view some great results too!
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answered by M W on 4 Mar 2010, 1:23:15
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What is your child's age? Boy or girl? what is the dietary habit of the whole family? what is his/her birth weight? What is his/her weight now?You have to assess not only your child's eating habit but as well as the whole family. A balance diet means, good breakfast, have lunch and very light dinner and not later han 7pm. In between breakfast lunch dinner, have small snacks of cut fruits or vegetable (as in salad). Avoid processed foods and fast foods. Have a lot of water, chamomile tea, milk and milk products. Give brown (whole grain bread) instead of white bread. Limit pasta or any carbohydrate intake (this depends on what is your child's weight). Have a good amount of protein as protein is the building blocks necessary for your child's growth. Involve him/her in sports or other activites. Limit watching tv and having some chips or fries. Proper nutrition, lifestyle modification and activities are the best indicator if we do well or not with regards to achieving wellbeing.
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answered by M L on 19 Jun 2007, 10:21:57
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Children eat a lot as craving for carbohydrates develop. The root cause of craving lies in fat deposits in area around navel. This is termed visceral obesity. The circumference of the body measured around navel grteater than 80% of the circumference around hips, is characteristic feature of this condition. another name is truncal obesity or central obesity. once this devlopes, insulin resistance is also present. The serum insulin brings in depressed state and to take care of this, children find eating carbs, cookies, chocolate..all foods which give rapid rise in blood sugar, as addiction. sugar addiction or soft carbs addiction is a vicious circle. leads to more obesity and diabetes later. Hundreds of diets have been proposed, none works. To burn the excess calories, one needs oxygen, and more oxygen body will take only if person exercises or breaths heavily intentionally. This brings us to Pranayama techniques to control obesity, as taught in India, by Baba Ramdev and several others. Walking is a best exercise to tackle obesity. Advantages of walking are numerous. For further guidance read several articles at: http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ayurvedaonline/message/7095 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ayurvedaonline/message/7833 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ayurvedaonline/message/8795 http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/ayurvedaonline/message/9076 Cellular oxygen holds key to both obesity, carbohydrate addiction and slimming. Diets have failed miserably. See: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/healthnews.php?newsid=67422
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answered by S B on 13 Jun 2007, 10:15:12
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