Healthy Eating for Children and Women

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It is known that 75% of the body is composed of water.  This amazing liquid do powerful work including fat burning and keeping the body hydrated. Which is especially crucial for children that run, skip and play, their bodies will require more water to hydrate it.

It is a tragedy that many children are living without sufficient water as part of their daily life, which is not what healthy eating for children consists of. A healthy eating diet is eating fruits, vegetables, protein, grain, nuts and water.

Many times children would be playing and thirst set in but, do they run and have a glass of water? The answer is no. The may go and have a glass of some sweet fizzy drink or may have sugar laden artificial juice. The importance of water cannot be stressed enough, “it is the single most variable in lifelong good health and top performance” states Michael Colgan  Ph.D.

Many times we as adults are thirsty and we misinterpret it as hunger when actually we are not. In that case we might reach for a snack or tend to over eat when actually a tall glass of water would have done the trick. With that we end up putting extra calories in our thirsty bodies with no water to flush the excess fat out. Healthy eating for children consists of consuming sufficient water on a daily basis so, important that adults set example for children.

Healthy eating for children may include having several good sources of liquid available on hand to quench thirsty. Plain bottle water with a splash of lemon is enticing and will have them drinking more water, Freeze water into cubes and the children could munch on it throughout the day, lemon and is a great way to get fluids in them and making ice cold smoothie will get them to drink.