Celebrate the festive season with "Fruit cones"

Celebrate the festive season with "Fruit cones"

Hey friends you know November is a festive month beginning with Diwali, children’s day, world diabetes day n last but not the least anti obesity day.

So why not celebrate all this in a unique manner just as shown in the picture consider filling ice cream cones with fresh, assorted fruit - “Fruit cones”  . A beautiful  yummy and refreshing dessert to serve your friends and family during diwali, childrens would simply love it…..diabetics ….enjoy the natural sweetness and weight watchers can eat it without bothering about  its weight.

So what you all have say friends?

Watch out for an interesting recipe related to this in tommorrow’s post

Set a Good example, Children get their eating quirks from us.

Set a Good Example

Children get their eating quirks from us. 

                                             

If you want your child to drink milk or eat all the veggies and fruits, Don't make faces when having a certain vegetable or certain dish. 

If your child sees you regularly eating unhealthy foods or wrinkling up your nose at foods you don't like, he's likely to mimic that behavior as you are role models for them…

Treat everything served to you as your all time favourite and the most nutritious food; especially if eating in front of your child, do this genuinely for a few days, and you will not only see an improvement in your habit of eating everything on your platter but will also reinforce this in the mind of your child.

Also sitting down together as a family to share a nutritious meal gives your child a chance to see healthy eating habits in action..

                                                      

Catchy names can influence kids to eat more vegetables

Catchy names can influence kids to eat more vegetables

The age-old parental struggle of convincing youngsters to eat their fruits and vegetables has some new allies. A new study has found that using attractive names for healthy foods increases kid’s selection and consumption of these foods.

Cornell University researchers studied how a simple change, such as using attractive names, would influen

ce elementary-aged (5-11yrs) children's consumption of vegetables.

In the first study, plain old carrots were transformed into “X-ray Vision Carrots.”

By changing the carrots to “X-ray vision carrots”, a whopping 66 percent were eaten, far greater than the 32 percent eaten when labelled “Food of the Day” and 35 percent eaten when unnamed.
The success of the changes is stupendous, and the fun, low cost nature of the change makes it all the more enticing.

In the second study, carrots became “X-Ray vision carrots,” broccoli did a hulk like morph into “Power Punch Broccoli” along with “Tiny Tasty Tree Tops” and “Silly Dilly Green Beans” replaced regular old green beans to give them more pizza.

“These results demonstrate that using attractive names for healthy foods increases kid's selection and consumption of these foods and that an attractive name intervention is robust, effective and scalable at little or no cost," Brian Wansink, lead author of the study said.

"This research also confirms that using attractive names to make foods sound more appealing works on individuals across all age levels."

Source: http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-09-18/us/33924658_1_green-beans-vision-carrots-vegetables