The Wall Street Journal posted an eye opening article this morning. Overweight children, as young as 3- 5 can be linked to heart disease. The findings were discovered by testing children’s C- reactive protein.

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If you, as a parent, have had an eating disorder, and therefore are concerned about your children also suffering an eating, you are wise to be so. The percentage of parents with eating disorders who have a child with an eating disorder is 85%.

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Encourage your child to excel by introducing them to indoor sports and outdoor sports. Make certain they also know the importance of diet and exercise. Our world today is so filled with video games and computers, good healthy activity is sometimes forgotten. Sports will make exercise a part of their daily life and increase their chance of being a healthy adult.

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It is much easier kids to lose weight than for adult for a number of reasons. The largest reason is metabolism. Kids have a ton of energy allowing them to stay active, they are constantly growing, still developing and hormones are coursing through their body in augmenting amounts as they get older, making it less complicated for them to get rid of excess weight because their body naturally get rid of excess more so than an adult.

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A thought provoking article on childhood obesity and factors leading to such a situation. A must read for every concerned parent.

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Obesity has fast becoming one of the common problems among kids and the ever-deteriorating situation is indeed alarming. If you are a parent and your child is facing this problem, you simply cannot run away from the responsibility of imparting the correct eating habits to him/her. Here are 3 proven ways to do that.

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Children are taught that the excuse of someone told me to do it is not a valid excuse when they have done something wrong. So why is it that adults try to run the same line when it comes to eating?

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When you send your kids off to school every day, you probably are aware, at least in general terms, of the curriculum used and the strengths of their individual teachers. You might even spend time discussing with your children the dynamics that are created with their friends in a group setting. Surely, they comment on trends and fads. However, one of the most important things that school offers for their learning environment and physical development may be completely out of your realm of thought: school lunches.

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Michelle gets nostalgic for her childhood and thinks about happy families and health. Do you ever look back at your childhood with rose tinted spectacles? Those care-free days where summers were actually warm, and the days seemed to go of for ever. Rushing down your breakfast so you could escape from the house to see your friends and spend hours roller-skating, climbing trees, and riding around on proper scooters that had big wheels, with tassels fluttering from your handle bars, not like these modern micro-scooters you get today.

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Childhood obesity is an increasing problem all around the world and more and more children are being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and other heart conditions associated with bad eating habits. We are the most important role models for our children and they will copy our good behaviors and our bad. So this is the time while your children still mimic you to start living healthy and making eating healthy a natural part of your life.

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