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Your kids should have a healthy nutrition, so as they grow up they will learn how to adapt to healthy eating habits.  If you do not take time to teach them while they are young, they will be addicted to junk food like the average American who struggles with various diseases and being obese as adults.  Follow these 5 simple steps, so your kids will not only learn how to eat properly on a daily basis, but enjoy it.  Kids follow what other kids do.  When other kids see your kids eating healthy meals, at lunch breaks, then they will most likely do the same and this will invent healthy eating habits among the children of this generation.  Children always imitate what other kids do.  Why not turn peer pressure into a positive motive for eating, properly?  These 7 important steps to a child’s healthy nutrition is something that must be taken seriously by parents.  As a parent, you must be willing to be a positive role model and do the same, choose a healthy nutrition, daily.  Kids also do whatever they see their parents do; therefore, you have to be willing to care about your body as you would expect your child to do.  Kids are very smart and if you do not discipline yourself to eat healthy meals, they will not obey you,t hey will do the opposite of your expectations and do not be surprise if you find vegetables in your kitchen garbage.  As a rule, parents must show they are doing what is right, if they expect to see their kids do the same, so eat right while being proud of your child’s health.

1. Write down 3 healthy meals per day for your kids, then create your ideal healthy meals for 7 days a week into a chart.  Your chart should be in your kitchen at all times, possibly on the wall are on your refrigerator.  You should follow the chart for your kids and do not serve them anything else that is not on the chart.  When writing down your meal for breakfast daily, your kids should have a healthy breakfast the consist of whole grain or oat cereal, a glass of milk or juice, wheat toast (not white) and a cup of cocktail fruit or a piece of fruit.  If your children are eating breakfast at school, make sure you make them a lunch, it not only saves money, you can make sure your child is eating a healthy meal.  At school, meals are sometimes served with too much sugar and salt.  When children eat lunch at school daily, they should have a meal that consists of possibly a cold cut sandwich with lettuce and tomato, a piece of fruit (apple, orange or a banana) or sometimes a carrot or celery stick.  Some days, if you desire for your child to eat something different than a cold cut sandwich, make sure it always includes a piece of fruit, which contains vitamins and minerals.  Make sure your child drinks milk or bottle of fruit juice, never soda.  Your child should never drink soda for any meals, because it contains too much sugar.  When your child arrives home, everyone should be eating the same for dinner.  For dinner, you should serve baked salmon or either chicken, never fry your food.  You can sometimes include a starch, possible a baked potato or whole grain brown rice, but most times dinner should only be served with a piece of meat and a toss salad or steamed vegetables.  Too much starch may cause your kids to be overweight.  It is okay to sometimes make some macaroni and cheese, but not everyday.
2. When preparing meals at home, sometimes this is the best time to include your child in the kitchen, this is the best time to teach them how to cook.  A lot of times, when you show kids how to prepare food, they enjoy eating it, because they are proud of being an assistance to you.  If you do this often, you will see how your kids will enjoy eating healthy meals.
3. When eating snacks, do not give your child candy or potato chips, give them healthy alternatives.  If your child likes potato chips, then they will like banana chips.  Banana chips are a healthy snack, because they are natural and most brands are not processed with packed sugar and salt.  If you child like candy, you can treat them every now and then, but find a healthy alternative like some homemade oatmeal raisin cookies, which are very delicious and although they are sweet, the oats and raisins are still good for your kids.  Put some peanut butter on celery sticks, this snack your kids will love, not only is it sweet, peanut butter is natural and celery that contains fiber, foliate, and potassium.
4. Reward your children for eating their healthy meals. Sometimes, it maybe very difficult to get your child to eat Brussels Sprouts, for instance, but if you show your child what they will get, after eating everything on their plate, then they will remember while making sure they eat every last bit of food.
5. Educate your kids about health risks, if they choose not to eat right.  Have a weekly discussion of what happens to people who eat unhealthy.  Do research with your child on the internet about people who were diagnosed with various diseases and how the lack of a healthy nutrition may have contributed to their ill health.  One good way to teach your child to read is by purchasing books on healthy eating.  Teach them the benefits of eating fruits and vegetables and while doing so, they will learn what vitamins and minerals they contain.

You should immediately start these 5 simple steps for your kid’s to start a healthy diet.  If you have never done this and your children are teenagers, it is never to late to encourage a healthy nutrition.  You should adapt a healthy nutrition, so your kids will take being healthy, seriously.  Your kids health is very important, so as they grow older they will be less likely to be at health risks for various diseases when they proceed healthy eating habits.