51. Educate Your Kids – Healthy Diets

It’s difficult to stay focussed on a healthy diet for you and your family when all day long you are being bombarded with messages to the contrary, but just because the rest of the world is slowly killing themselves, you don’t have to!

In a report by Jane Bunce children are being exposed to a phenomenal number of junk food ads.

“Children saw an average 9 junk food TV ads an hour.” she says Read more here:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21587034-662,00.html

There is only so much you can do to ensure your kids eat healthily. If you never keep candy in the house, they’ll just hate you! And if they can’t afford to buy what they want to eat when they’re out with their friends, they’ll find ways to get the money – ‘whether hook or by crook’ – so the way to get the healthy message across to kids is to educate them.

Start by asking them how long they want to live. And rather than force them to eat certain foods, just tell them it’s ‘their life’ – it’s impossible to enforce rules, they will always break them. If you give them the choice to make up their own minds, not only will they respect you for it, for treating them with respect, but they’ll eventually make the right decisions.

After all, you’re only on a special diet, because you HAVE to be – right?!