By Jerry Golez
Children are prone to have an overweight built. They are vulnerable to this situation especially when parents do not have their time to watch their children. Sometimes these obesity cases are due to their obese parents too, it is important that the family observes a positive family lifestyle. There are ways to prevent children obesity; some examples of these are as follows:
Encouraging your children to have a more active lifestyle
Practicing a regular form of exercise is basically a crucial part for children and adults to engage with. The general cause of kids being obese in today's generation than the past is that the children today spends most of their time inactive. In today's generation, video game consoles are the things keeping the kids busy not like in the past where kids are engaged to physical activities like sports. They more spend their time sometimes biking and like more to be physically active.
Parents can help solve this problem by pursuing the kids to practice exercises with them. Engaging the whole family to exercise will gain family bonding and at the same time the whole family would enjoy doing. You can also take them to a local pool or even encourage them to play ball like tennis or simply walking the dog around the neighborhood for a couple of hours.
The solution has to begin breaking bad habits such as spending most of the time playing videos or watching TV and instead go out and ride a bike together. It will be a perfect time spending moments together as a family.
Encourage a Smaller Portion of Food Shares
Sometimes it is not the type of foods that the children are eating causes their being overweight. Most of the time, it is the food size they are consuming. Most of the families use a large plate which has a big space for the food to accumulate. All you have to do is to replace these plates with a normal sized plate to retain the accurate portion for your children to consume.
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