Eat lots of fruit
How to Have a Healthy Baby
- Make a self conscience decision to eat healthy and exercise yourself. Kids love to imitate their parents and siblings.
- We should do our best to start our kids with the best food given to mankind, breast milk. Breast milk is a living substance, that can be given throughout the first 6 months exclusively. Formula is not a substitute for breast milk. It is a dead substance.Thereafter, adding additional wholesome foods, with a combination of breastfeeding for as long as the Mother can, up to 2 years. Sounds hard, but it provides the best nutrition for your little one and a lifelong benefits.
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Give your children and yourself simple, whole foods. Whole foods are packed with minerals and vitamins, especially veggies. Good eating habits are for a lifetime. Start your babies with healthy foods. Everybody loves to see the baby smile as they give them chocolate or ice cream, but it is unhealthy.
Family and friends should be aware, not to give your children unhealthy food when they are babies. Let them love the veggies first, after comes the good stuff. Sweets should be treats, not normal dining.
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When they start eating food, other than milk try to give them what you eat. Mush it up, strain it, they’ll love it. Try to let them eat at the table with you. This establishes eating habits.
Avoid too many in between meal snacks. If you must give them a snack, establish a snack time and give them something healthy.
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Avoid letting your children eat sweets and junk food at an early age. Soda, chips, chocolates or sweets should not be given to children under the age of 1 year. Habits form early in life. After they are a little older, it is fine to let them have these treats, but not everyday and in small portions.
Don’t let your kids take chocolates and candy from the shelves, teach them to ask you. Once this habit is formed they will bring everything to the checkout.
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Try to exercise with your kids and avoid confining them to one place. Especially avoid using the TV as a babysitter. I realize sometimes this may be a help, but you are setting your child up to be a coach potato. Kids need and want to move. Small children can sometimes be challenging, but you can find a way.
- Get them to sit on your feet for sit ups or give them a piggy back ride. Improvise.
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Being a parent is truly amazing.
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Enjoy and develop your relationship with your little ones now, later is often too late.
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A good relationship with your baby now will form a bridge during the teenage years.
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Get advice from a doctor about exercise and breastfeeding.
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Doctors often push formula. Breastfeeding is not profitable, formula is.
- Educational toys are also a great way to help them develop their mental capacity.
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If parents were to receive a report card for keeping their children healthy, many would get failing grades. Currently, nearly one third of kids between the ages of 2 and 19 are over weight or obese.
- Carrying extra weight is hard on a child’s body and mind. It raises the risk of heart disease, diabetes, excess fat in the liver and orthopedic problems. There is also the psychological effect. Kids want to fit in and need their peers’ acceptance.
- Here are 4 ways to help improve your report card:
- 1. Clean up your own act. Children learn what they live and you are the teacher. A family that eats healthy foods and exercises together can grow old and be healthy together.
- 2. Change how you cook. Emphasize fruits and vegetables, lean meats and low fat dairy products.
- 3. Avoid “portion distortion.” It’s not only what your kids eat but how much they eat that really counts. Don’t push extra helpings. teach them to eat until they are satisfied, not uncomfortably full.
- 4. Limit sedentary downtime. Our bodies are made for movement. Play catch, take a walk or go for a swim. The options are limitless.
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