Every parent wants good things for their children: a positive outlook on life, a healthy respect for authority, a strong sense of self, a disease-free body…a healthy body weight.<\/p>\n
Despite our best intentions, a recent report suggests that for the first time in two centuries, the current generation of children may have a shorter life expectancy than their parents.<\/p>\n
With all the advances in medicine, how could this possibly be true? The blame falls squarely on today\u2019s toxic food environment.<\/p>\n
In short, your kids are eating too much junk.<\/p>\n
And who can blame them? Junk food tastes great.<\/p>\n
The good news is that healthy food also tastes great. Take these simple tips and transform your child\u2019s diet into one that is packed with good health.<\/p>\n
1) Add Color<\/strong><\/p>\n Adding bright and colorful fruits and veggies to your child\u2019s plate will get their diet on the fast track to health. Fresh fruits and veggies are filled with fiber, vitamins and minerals that are essential to good health.<\/p>\n If your kids are resistant then make it fun. Serve veggies with salad dressing as a dip. Cut fresh fruit in the colors of the rainbow and place them on a skewer. Serve a color themed meal \u2013 all green, all red or all orange. Use your imagination and you\u2019ll come up with an endless number of ways to make fruits and veggies fun to eat.<\/p>\n 2) Think Whole Foods<\/strong><\/p>\n Processed foods are the biggest problem with our modern diet. Packaged and refined food products are devitalized and filled with empty calories that quickly lead to weight gain. Unfortunately, processed foods make up a large portion of the diet of many children.<\/p>\n Train your kids to opt for whole foods, rather than packaged ones. Whole foods are foods that are in their natural state. An apple. A piece of sprouted grain bread spread with natural peanut butter. A piece of hormone-free chicken. A bowl of beans. You get the idea.<\/p>\n 3) Use Wholesome Sweeteners<\/strong><\/p>\n Refined sugar and corn syrup are packed into many of the foods that your kids love. But wait, there are more wholesome sweeteners available \u2013 sweeteners that add vitamins and minerals rather than empty calories. Use the following rather than white sugar or corn syrup:<\/p>\n 4) Make Smart Substitutions<\/strong><\/p>\n Kids love pizza and pasta and peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and that\u2019s not going to change any time soon. Rather than fight your kids on their favorites, try making smart substitutions to make their favorites more nutritious.<\/p>\n 5) Ban Sugary Drinks<\/strong><\/p>\n One of the best things that you can do for your child\u2019s good health is to instill in them a love for water rather than sugary drinks. Fizzy drinks and juices are filled with empty calories that encourage weight gain.<\/p>\n The easiest way to do this is to stock your house with lots of pure, filtered water. Don\u2019t have fruit drinks or soda pop readily available so that they grow accustom to drinking only water.<\/p>\n While I presented these tips as improvements to be made to your child\u2019s diets, these tips will also do wonders for your diet. Try these 5 tips out for 30 days and I guarantee you\u2019ll look and feel better.<\/p>\n Parents all want good things for their children. Now how about doing something good for yourself as well? You are your child\u2019s biggest role model on how to live, for better or worse.<\/p>\n Treat yourself right by calling or emailing today to get started on an exercise program that will change your life for the best.<\/p>\n P.S.\u00a0 – Whenever you are ready… and here are 3\u00a0ways I can help you lose weight, increase your muscle tone and help you get motivated:<\/p>\n 1. Results Fitness Is Re- opening – Come in for a Custom Fitness Consultation.<\/b><\/p>\n We’ll sit down together and discuss your goals, simple steps you can take to achieve them and see if there is a way to work together to give you the coaching and support you need to get the results you want quickly.<\/p>\n If you’d like to discuss meeting for a Consultation, just reply and put ‘Consult’ in the subject line and I’ll follow up with you.<\/p>\n 2.<\/b>\u00a0Join our 28 Day Jump Start Program<\/b><\/p>\n We’re adding a few new clients to our program for 28 days and documenting their success. If you’d like to work with us for the next month and be a case study for fat loss… just reply to this message and put “28” in the subject line.<\/p>\n 3.<\/strong>\u00a0Be my guest for a free training session.<\/b><\/p>\n If you’d like to come in to attend a ‘Bring a Friend’ training session as my guest…just reply and put “Guest” in the subject line, and I’ll get you all the details!<\/p>\n \u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every parent wants good things for their children: a positive outlook on life, a healthy respect for authority, a strong sense of self, a disease-free body…a healthy body weight. Despite our best intentions, a recent report suggests that for the first time in two centuries, the current generation of children may have a shorter life […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fitness-wellness"],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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