{"id":4624,"date":"2016-02-08T07:00:41","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T07:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/?p=4624"},"modified":"2018-05-17T09:06:40","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T08:06:40","slug":"developing-healthy-eating-habits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craftykidsathome.com\/developing-healthy-eating-habits\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Bother to Feed Your Kids a Healthy Diet?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Teaching your children to eat healthily can seem like an overwhelming task. However much you try to offer healthy options, they naturally reach for the biscuits, the chips, the cakes. They automatically choose the unhealthy option. Actually, when you know how and are in the habit of doing so, it\u2019s easy to feed your children a healthy diet<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Welcome to Dr Orlena Kerek who has kindly provided\u00a0Crafty Kids at Home\u00a0with a 3-part series all about developing healthy eating habits from an early age.<\/p>\n Dr Orlena Kerek is a pediatric doctor and mother of four young children. She writes about developing healthy habits from an early age, especially healthy eating habits. She believes in fun healthy food the stress free way. You can find her over at <\/em>Snotty Noses.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n This post contains affiliate links for your convenience.<\/em><\/p>\n First of all, let\u2019s take a step back. Let us have a look at the situation from afar. I want you to let go of all the stress that is involved around eating, especially eating healthy foods.<\/p>\n Let me explain.<\/p>\n Why do you want your children to eat a healthy diet? Yes, I know it\u2019s important, but WHY is it important? What are you, or more importantly your children going to gain from eating healthily?<\/p>\n First of all, there are what we call \u201cshort term benefits\u201d. Those are all the good things that your children will get right now and in the immediate future. For children, that\u2019s avoiding being constipated (which is a big problem and very painful). Plus they will avoid childhood weight problems and obesity.<\/p>\n If your children don\u2019t suffer from the above, why bother? Surely they can just start to eat healthily as an adult and fill up on junk as a child? In theory, that could happen. The reality is that it doesn\u2019t. Our eating habits form as children. We can change them as adults, but most people don\u2019t.<\/p>\nPart 1 – Why Bother to Feed you Kids a Healthy Diet?<\/h2>\n
The Short Term Benefits of Feeding your\u00a0Children a Healthy Diet<\/h2>\n