How can you get your kids to eat healthy and enjoy it, avoiding eating disorders?

Many of my friends are mothers now, and a usual question they have is how to get your kids to eat well, healthy and like it? without being "pushy" towards them, something that can scare parents because none of us would like to push our kids to an eating disorder, we all know the one and only intention is to help them grow healthy.

In my experience I will share with you some tips to help with that, as well as some stories that could resemble to yours maybe.

Some of my friends suggest that there is some age at which children are simply not very interested in eating. Is it? Or what surrounds the ritual of the mealtime?? What happens every meal? What did we cook or got for food?, How is the food presented, how much do we serve of it, etc.

NOT EATING ENOUGH IS NORMAL?

I observe that my son is super anxious on meal times (and in general he is always active), and has a hard time staying still. What I have noticed is that I usually stand from the table to serve, turn what is in the fire, etc. Mmnn (Making my mind...).

Giving it a serious thought, I might have been a factor by which my kid doesn't focus on his meal time. So, I give you out the first tip to get your kids to eat well and like it:

Every kid learns by following example. Settle a schedule for meals and turn them into a nice routine. Family sitting by the table, together, sharing, eating and enjoying.

If timing is a problem and not all can be together, try to reproduce anyway the conduct of giving the meal its importance: the specific time for getting the foods that help recover energy for playing and for sharing.

HIGHLY AVOID DISTRACTIONS

Other thing that "scares a kids hunger" can be other conditions that distract them, for example, if I take my son to a restaurant and there's a playground available, games take priority, not food. So here comes tip number two to get your kids to eat well:

There most be less distractions on meal times. You can have soft music or anything that helps the atmosphere for all to relax, and dedicate meal time to meal time. Games can come later, TV comes later, etc. By the way, is not a good idea to mix TV and mealtime.

See how screentime can affect a child's fitness and nutrition habits

KIDS ONLY LIKE A FEW FOODS?

Obviously this depends on the age of the child. When too young, they're still developing their senses and digestive tract, but any kid can be taught to try different foods.

When the mother is pregnant, she can start teaching the baby by eating the healthy stuff needed for the good development of the kid and also for gathering the nutrients that a woman needs during this stage.

Later, through the breast milk, the mother will give the child different tastes by the food she eats, until the baby is ready to try some solids. And is not a coincidence that first foods given to a young baby are fruits and vegetables. Healthy aren't they?

This takes me to Tip number three to get your kids to eat well, healthy and like it:

When the kid grows, it is important to keep on to healthy meals and snacks as much as possible. Avoid giving them candies, sweets, foods high in flours, sugar, fats, or low caloric meals (sweetened with aspartame, or other artificial sweeteners).

Research shows that meals with this ingredients, attract bad bacteria to the colon that good bacteria are not able to fight if they lack in number, leading to a colonization of the intestines with bad bacteria, which produces less hunger of healthy foods and more hunger of the foods I wrote.

This is not the only thing that happens, but this starts a "chain process" which makes the organism to lose strength of the immune system (the intestine accounts for the production of 70-80% of the immune cells), nutrients are poorly absorbed and toxins (most of them produced by bad bacteria and by products of low nutrient foods), cannot be removed.

Then comes more consequences, a kid that is not well nourished and is not absorbing the adequate nutrients, starts developing health problems such as anemia, hipocalcemia (low calcium which may lead to poor dentition, fragile bones, etc), and others.

Tip number four if you want to get your kids to eat well, healthy and like it:

I highly recommend to deworm a kid at least twice a year. A good probiotic formulation can help as well to help the child recover and maintain enough good bacteria on the colon. This not only would help the kid to improve its immune system, but will also improve eating, absorption of good nutrients and elimination of toxins.

I wouldn't recommend probiotic commercial formulations (on liquid forms) as much as a lyophilized formula (a powder form that can be reconstituted with water), which makes it pretty convenient, and can be disguised on juice, milk or any other beverage, and which has a higher amount of excellent quality (and not just commercial) good bacteria of the most active variety available.

If you want to know more about the probiotic formulation or the topic above, I suggest you send me a comment using the contact link below. And I invite you to continue reading.

KIDS GIVE GOOD PRETEXTS OR WHAT IS WRONG?

Sometimes kids have the most obvious pretexts or comments, or actions, that's why the question always hangs: How to get your kids to eat well, healthy and love it? Have you passed through something like:

+ When the dish is on the table, without trying it they simply say: I don't like it mom!, And, sometimes they do try it, but they dislike it.

+ They don't say anything, they just spit the food, drop it or hide it (like my brother and I used to do.

+ I'm not hungry mommy!

+ You gave me too much mom!

And things like that.

Parents are always worried about their kids nutrition, the concern of how to get your kids to eat and like it must be addressed.

It is true that kids don't always feel on the mood for eating when we say or what we say or as much as we serve them. So relax, every kids' stomach will give you some signs of what to do.

To improve the nutrition of a child, first, relax yourself. Keep out from communicating an obligation, something that is not negotiable and those kind of sentences regarding the eating behaviour. Here are some more tips to help you out with getting your kids to eat well and like it, without pushing to an eating disorder.

+ Teach with example. Eat as healthy as you can.

+ Try to keep a schedule for mealtimes.

+ Try to relax and enjoy during the meals.

+ Make healthy choices at the supermarket.

+ Have different foods available and don´t push them to try them. You've might have heard the phrase: From the sight love is born.

+ Serve small portions first, if you see they like them and ask for more, you can maybe add a little extra.

+ If you want to reward your kid or simply let them try something sweet or that they like, avoid as much as possible candies or desserts high in sugar, salt or fat.

+ Search for recipes special for kids or different and creative ways to cook for them, you can even include them for the preparation of the meal (they love it I can tell!).

+ Deworm your kids at least twice a year.

+ Give a good quality supplement to your kid. It improves their hunger and helps them keep a healthy immune system as well. Below you'll find a link to a children supplements article.

+ Are you always under "diet" and communicate anxiety, frustration, etc. Is your language filled with phrases like: Don't eat that or you'll get fat, If you don't eat it you're going to be sick, etc. Check what conducts are being transferred to your kids, and that you might need to review and change for every ones benefit.

In order to get your kids to eat and like it, keeping balance and healthy foods on their menus, remember always to use your common sense and give the best example, the rest is involved on the most beautiful feeling that exists: LOVE. Put this ingredients on each meal and let your kids also show you how they feel and go learning about this in life.

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