How to Help Your Child Eat Healthy

 How to Help Your Child Eat Healthy

My write up in Healthmeup.com on How to Help Your Child Eat Healthy

Does your child always throw tantrums at the dinning table? Does he always demand unhealthy foods? As a parent it must be tempting to give in to these tantrums once in a while, but what do you do if your child's fixation with junk food begins to take a toll on his health? With childhood obesity on the rise in India, it is cause for concern. Today. Dr. Shilpa Mittal - Nutritionist, Diet Consultant and Founder of Nutrilife Health Management, comes to your rescue and shares some healthy nutritious tips to keep your child healthy and fit…

1. Meal times should be fun and sociable occasions.
2. Have fixed eating times, say 6-7 meals/ day.
3. Introduce only one food at a time.
4. Be honest about what you are offering. 
5. Avoid feeding them with salty nibbles like waffers, chips, packaged foods. 
6. Avoid carbonated drinks.
7. Keep food separate from discipline – it should never be used as reward (chocolates), bribe or threat.
8. Eat with your child so that you set an example of healthy eating. 
9. Eat a variety of foods - the larger the variety of food the better is the nutritional intake of children. That’s because different foods provide different nutrients.
10. As important as nutrition may be, the presentation of food is what will draw your child to the table initially.
11. Make nutrition and exercise family priorities.
12. Connect exercise with activities kids already like to do.
13. Play games – for shopping and serving health foods. eg:- introduce an unusual fruit/ vegetable every week or designate a week as “red foods week” and let your kids select every healthy red food they like.

Getting your child to eat healthy also depends on what you are offering your kids. If you expose them to junk foods often, they will want to eat those foods more, so be very careful about convenient unhealthy fall-back foods like cookies, chips or instant noodles.

source - http://healthmeup.com/news-healthy-living/how-to-help-your-child-eat-healthy/17935

Merry Christmas

Nutrilife wishes everyone a merry christmas

Eat healthy, stay healthy

Foods to Avoid in Winter

Foods to Avoid in Winter

Not all foods are the greatest if warmth is what you’re after. There are some foods that should be avoided in order to stay toasty in the winter.

Certain foods that should be avoided include:
• White breads / maida based products
• Cucumbers
• Too much butter
• Cold drinks
• Alcohol
• Processed chips

Also remember not to overeat on a cold winter night, as it can extinguish digestive fires which help in fending off the chill.

These are just a few of the foods to avoid during those cold winter months. The next time you curl up in front of the TV with a warm blanket to fight off the winter chill, try snacking on a few of the foods listed in the earlier posts to help keep you warm. You might be surprised at how well it works.

Easy tip to add green leafy in daily diet

Easy tip to add green leafy in daily diet

Add a few chopped spring onions, fresh green garlic, chopped spinach, or methi or mint leaves to dhokla/ idli/dosa batter…….i tried it with instant rawa dhokla and it tasted yummy…….a good way to incorporate greens in your diet on day to day basis……do give it a try.

MOST MODERN AGE DIETS ARE

MOST MODERN AGE DIETS ARE

-       Too high in total fat 
-       Too high in saturated fat 
-       Too high in cholesterol 
-        Too high in sodium 
-        Too high in sugar
-        Too high in processed foods 
-        Too high in empty calorie foods 
-        Too high in junk food
-        Too high in total calories

-        Too low in potassium 
-        Too low in calcium 
-        Too low in magnesium 
-        Too low in antioxidants 
-        Too low in ess. Vitamins n minerals 
-        Too low in ess. Fatty acids 
-        Too low in protein 
-        Too low in fluid
-        Too low in fibre

So what are you waiting for something big to strike you.....no don't make that mistake...change now....change your eating habits and lifestyle now.

Eat healthy live healthy

DIET OF OUR ANCESTORS

DIET OF OUR ANCESTORS

1.They ate half the fat we do & 3 times the protein.

2.The fat they ate was good and much more polyunsaturated than saturated , the complete reverse of ours.

3.No refined carbohydrates or ground flour (bread, pasta, noodles, cookies, biscuits) were consumed. Yet they had the energy to travel 100 of miles a week on foot  while carrying heavy objects.

4.Their calcium intake was twice ours & sodium intake less than 1/4^th.

 

5.They ate 5-10 times the amount of fibre we do. No incidence of colon or any other type of cancer is documented.

6.Their foods were always low in calories but nutritionally dense, high in all essential amino acids, vitamins, minerals, oils.

                              Give it a thought!!!

LOOK BEFORE U BUY........BROWN BREAD

 LOOK BEFORE U BUY........BROWN BREAD

While buying brown bread look out for whole wheat flour or atta as the first or second ingredient. Do not buy bread if only wheat flour or refined wheat flour is mentioned and whole wheat flour is mentioned as 4th or 5th ingredient.