Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Healthy Eating
I feel children is like monkey see, monkey do. When children see their parents choosing a more healthier approach in eating children will soon follow. When children start out at a very young age its easier in my opinion to get them to love and eat more veggies and fruits. I feel its time for the government to get involved with a healthier way of eating for the children. The first start needs to be at school, day cares etc since kids spend most their day there anyhow. For parents out there, I'm one of them and I would suggest buying healthier snacks from the store and also eating the healthy snacks along with kids. Kids want to do everything like their parents and what could be more than encouraging and promoting healthy eating.
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I agree with “monkey see, monkey do”, because that had a lot to do with my eating habits growing up. I always wanted to imitate what I saw older people doing to feel like a “big kid”. I also think just giving a child the option to chose, they will make the correct decisions on their own.
ReplyDeleteHello Monique,
ReplyDeleteYour answer to the question of how can we encourage adolescents to follow healthy behaviors? Any ideas for parents, healthcare providers, health educators, media, society, etc made me smile. Monkey See, Monkey Do. I like the answer of getting our schools to be a starting point in healthy eating for our children. I feel if you expose children to a variety of healthy foods from a younger age their tastebuds will expand. Once your body absorbs those healthy foods...it is hard to go back to the unhealthy ones. Education and preventative information posted in schools and daycares and a healthy selection of food is a great start!
Amy