Child Care

Health insurance is important for everyone to have; yet, due to the cost of health care, and the cost of health insurance, many people think it’s impossible for them to obtain health insurance, much less affordable health insurance. In 1996, Dr. Philip Harvey, a public-health nutritionist, was quoted in the newspaper The Weekend Australian as saying, “Australian children are getting fatter, and they’re getting fatter fast.” His concern was based on a study that showed that the percentage of overweight children in Australia had doubled, over the previous ten years.

The video games, the Internet, chat rooms and social networking on the web are substituting the kids social physical interaction of the past, plus the bad eating habits of consuming foods loaded with a high fat content, high carbohydrate diets and high sugar content drinks consumed in huge proportions by kids these days just exponentially grow the problem.

Organic foods will have less additives, less hormones (designed to help cattle and chicken GAIN weight), less genetically modified foods to be allergic too, less chemicals to create immune responses to. Organic produce tastes better too, and it might be less of struggle to get a child to snack on cherry tomatoes that melt in your mouth than on tomatoes that taste like cardboard.

Prepare nutritious and healthy foods for the whole family. By adding cheese sauce to it, you can make a lot of vegetables into toddler foods. Regardless of the type of hobby or activity they enjoy, parents should encourage their children to express their feelings.

Electronics with backlit displays such as cellular phones, laptops, gaming devices, and even televisions can create a sense of confusion within the body, leaving the mind overactive and unable to rest when bedtime arises. Make sure they learn that each time they eat, something from this valuable food group is to be included.