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Health awareness and change the pattern of food and improve the quality of nutrition by eating healthy eating and reducing non-health food, exercise and increased physical activity.
* To improve the diet of the child:
1. When buying foods must choose fruits and vegetables instead of sugary and fat foods, and must provide a healthy snack available to the child permanently,
And prevents the use of food as a means of punishment Or bonus.
2. Reduce sweetened beverages, including fruit juice, they offer little nutritional value compared to the elements of calories they contain, in addition, they feel the child of satiety not eat healthy and nutritious food and replace them with fresh juices.
3. Encouraging usually eating at the same table full as a family, and convert food into suitable for the exchange of talk, news and stories, and reduce the intake of food in front of the TV or computer or video games, because it leads to rapid eating and lack of awareness of the amount of food that dealt with the child.
4. reduce the frequency of eating outside the home, especially in the fast food that are high in fat and calories restaurants.
* To increase the level of physical activity of the child are advised to:
1. Reduce the time of the child watch television for less than two hours a day, Reducing television viewing will increase locomotor activity, You should reduce the computer and video games and talking on the phone.
2. emphasis on activity, not exercise, it is not required to organize exercise program but needed to continue the movement, and the exercise of free games such as: game chase and search, jumped rope, which helps to burn calories and increase physical fitness.
3. knowledge of the activities that the child likes, for example, if the child has artistic leanings, you can embark on the nature of the collection of leaves and rocks that could be used for the manufacture of technical models stereoscopic, or if he likes climbing, or he likes reading offering an upstream for walking or riding a bike to get the book .
4. To encourage the child to practice physical activity is essential for the people of his practice is also finding enjoyable shared activities, and warns of converting exercise into a kind of punishment Or a chore.
5. diversity of activities, leaving each child's role in the selection of the type of activity for a day or a week, such as tennis or bowling or swimming Or football.
* For the prevention of obesity:
1. Visit your doctor at least once a year, where the doctor measure the child's height, weight and the study of indicators that may indicate The risk of suffering from obesity.
2. Parents should be role model for children, making sure to eat healthy foods and exercise regularly to maintain weight.
3. Do not advisable to use food as a means to modify the child's behavior, either as a punishment or prevention presented as a reward.
4. promote positive behavior, encouraging healthy lifestyle, focusing on the positive side, such as fun to play abroad, or the diversity of fresh fruit all year round.
5. emphasize the benefits of sport apart from being a way to lose weight, for example: Sports strengthens the heart, lungs, muscles, and invest the child's natural to run and discovery tendencies, eating only when you feel hungry and not because of boredom. These practices will become a child's healthy habits over time.
6. Patience is the key to success. Many children grow and increase their weight when their height, and parents should be aware that excessive focus on the eating habits of the child gives backfire and Lead to a child leaning over To eat.
Problems with obesity in children:
You should teach your child good, lifelong eating habits that resist his tendency and you can help your child to slim down by:
Do not encourage the child to miss any of the three basic meals.
Encourage the child to drink a glass of water before meals.
Provide less food to the child.
Ask your child to chew food slowly.
Do not buy light foods with high calories such as potato chips or candy.
Buy low-sugar drinks, fresh fruits and vegetables and make them available at home.
Eat only low-calorie foods on the table at home like fresh fruit.
Do not eat in the room while walking or watching TV.
Encourage him to sport as a cyclist.
Use the ladder instead of using the elevator.
try to avoid sanks, soft drinks and other sweet things.
Now a days "dieting" is done to reduce weight, but people do not understand its meaning it is not to stop the food completely but to break ur food into time intervals.
