Home Health Care New York

Online, December 19, 2013 (Newswire.com) - Making sure your child is eating healthy can be an enormous challenge! As toddlers, they seem to refuse everything except pasta and cheese. As they get older, they start making more and more of their own choices about what to eat.

Even with the best intentions, some children will be adamant against eating anything their parents want them to eat. With a little perseverance, creativity and patience, your child undoubtedly will develop the taste for healthy foods. The most important thing you can do as a parent is cultivate your own love for healthy foods, and serve healthy food to your children, and keep offering! Healthy habits at a young age lead to healthy habits later. Helps prevent long term diseases such as, diabetes, heart disease, liver disease, etc. Eat together. Research shows that children who eat with their parents or caregivers are more likely to eat vegetables and try new foods than children who eat by themselves or with siblings. Keep trying. It may take up to 10 offerings before a child will accept a new food. Research shows that it may be best to offer new foods in a neutral way, without coercion, and let your kids move at their own pace. Let them serve themselves. Many kids will gladly serve themselves vegetables and whole grains if given the opportunity. Try putting food on the table "family style," with kid-friendly utensils. Many kids love tongs. Get them involved. Take your kids to the farmers market and grocery store to let them pick out fruits and vegetables. Grow a garden. When kids get involved, they are more likely to eat healthy foods.

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