Parents as Role Models for Children – Emotional Eating

Have you ever wondered how emotional eating becomes a habit? As parents, we are role models for children, either good or bad and unfortunately, it is usually us who teaches a children the concept of emotional eating.Remember when your babies were learning to walk. Or when your toddler fell over because they tried to walk or run too fast. (Read Are You Teaching Your Children Healthy Eating Habit?)Do you remember seeing a baby trying to walk for the first time? Definitely a case of practice makes perfect. Initially they learn to stand and wobble and then fall down. It is also a time in which tears are common. Sometimes because the child is startled...

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Encouraging Child Fitness with a Wii Weight Loss Plan

Are you concerned about inactive children and teenagers? Wii weight loss plans are becoming extremely popular as a means to get them up and moving when sometimes it seems that the only part of their body that gets a workout is their fingers operating the game pad. Wii fitness games provide an excellent way to engage them in an exercise program without having to drag them away from the television and game console. So turn their obsession with video games into a means to increase fitness. Wii weight loss plans are cheaper than the gym but still provide a wide variety of exercises that your child or teen will love. And the best thing is, a Wii weight...

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Are you Teaching your Children Healthy Eating Habits?

What lessons were you taught about food about food as a child? Were you taught healthy eating habits, or unhealthy? Most parents teach the same lessons they were taught, and these lessons will be passed down through many generations until someone decides to break the cycle.Were you raised in the “eat everything on your plate” generation. Eat everything on your plate, even if you were already full. Were you told to think of the starving children in third world countries? Did you ever understand how leaving one potato could help a starving child in another country?If you are concerned about starving children around the world don’t use it to encourage...

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Successful Diet Plans For Overweight Teenage Boys

Maybe you’ve got a teenage son that is obese, or perhaps you are an adolescent young man yourself and want to get rid of weight. Regardless, you need to know that there are diet plans for overweight teen boys that genuinely work. Let’s be honest though, it will not be effortless, but if you stick with it and can stay focused on the ultimate objective, it is going to be a good deal simpler.Before you do anything at all with your teenage boys eating habits it’s crucial that you talk to your family health care professional to make sure of a couple of things. First, that the teenager is really overweight. Though that could seem obvious, what one...

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Weight Loss Foods for Kids

When it comes to weight loss for kids, there are challenges to be faced that are unique compared to the challenges faced by adults losing weight. In the first place, dietary changes and restrictions are IMPOSED on children, whereas, adults are act on their own behalf in most cases.Helping a child understand the reasons for the change in their diet can be awkward to say the least. Any sudden changes in food and portion sizes are unsettling for children. The younger they are the harder it is. For example, explaining the health risks of obesity like heart disease, stroke, diabetes etc probably doesn’t mean much to a kid unless they happen to know...

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