The Healthy Lifestyle - Stop Childhood Obesity

In this day and age of mass-advertising, social media, fast food restaurants, take out meals, and every imaginable distraction known to man, it is understandable that people are not living more active, healthy lives. ?However, the fact of the matter is that we don?t have a choice if we want to live long into the future and meet our grandkids and great grandkids. ?If we want to see what the next wave of technology will be, or if we want to see how our country and the world is going to shape up, then we need to remain vigilant about staying healthy. In this post, I hope to give you some very simple steps that you can take, day in and day out, to live a healthier lifestyle. This site is filled with ideas and??guides on how to be healthy, and this page should just make it that much simpler. ?So, let?s dive right in:

1. Turn off the TV when eating.
   • It is estimated that people eat, on average, 500 or more calories each meal?when they are glued to the TV (or Hulu, or Netflix, or whatever other entertainment), versus people who sit and talk to each other without other distractions.
2. Use smaller plates
   • Remember being told "There are starving children in Africa! You should feel lucky to get all this food, so eat up!"? ?Well, back when people said that, the meals were a bit healthier. ?Now they are crap (unless you cook at home yourself). ?So, instead of telling children to eat everything on their super-sized plates, try just using smaller serving dishes. ?This forces you to serve them smaller, and less calorie-rich meals.
3. Do most of your shopping at the edges of the grocery store (start at the edges and fill your cart their first)
   • About 99.9% of the items in the aisles of grocery stores are crap. ?They have high amounts of processed sugars, high-fructose corn syrup, and little nutritional value. ?Stay in the edges where the fruits, veggies, fresh meats and seafoods, and dairy products are. ?If you load up in these areas (especially fruits and veggies), then you will have less room in your cart for crap, and thus healthier items at home.
4. Be more active with regular activities (i.e. walking)
   • What I mean here is walk, don?t drive or use machines to do all the work for you. ?Try to use the stairs whenever possible, don?t use elevators. ?Park at the far end of the parking lot for a good walk into your office/store. ?And for goodness sake, stop using those stupid electric powered carts to get around unless you have a true disability (i.e. you?re paralyzed!!!!). ?Watch the Disney movie Wall-E?to see a very realistic example of how using machines degrades our health and fitness over time.

These are some simple yet effective ways to reduce your child?s caloric intake. ?Most of what is written here is aimed at the adults for a simple reason?.children will imitate you! ?So, start being proactive with your health choices, stop saying it?s too hard, and start working on that long life you have in mind. ?Doing so will have a trickle down effect for your children, and cause them to make some good choices as they grow up. ?If you need more information about specifics on meal planning and dietary information, please see our post on healthy eating habits.

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