8 Ways To Prevent Childhood Obesity

1. Everyone eats the same food, no exceptions!

This makes an already self-conscious child feel worse about himself. And, it doesn’t work. If the child diets, then the whole family diets. Every member should sit down and eat the same meal. Offer your kids balanced meals three times a day and if a member of the family doesn’t eat, don’t feel guilty and never offer compensatory foods. If one child is thin and needs to gain weight, he can eat a second helping, but all the food must be the same. If you’re craving late night fast food, then go when the kids are asleep everyone eats the same!

2. NO talk about diets.

The majority of girls, especially, in America feel insecure about their weight. So don’t make weight the issue. Strength, good nutrition and health are the issues, NOT vanity.  Make healthy eating a discipline that everyone in your family should have because being disciplined is part of life.

3. Keep your family moving and outdoors.

Kids who sit too much gain weight more easily.

So, turn off the TV, take a family dictated screen break and make your child go outside. The…