Rules for a healthy lifestyle for children

Rules for a healthy lifestyle for children

 

Rules for a healthy lifestyle for children

A healthy lifestyle is one which helps to keep and improve people's

health and well-being. .. Healthy living is a lifelong effect. The

ways to being healthy include healthy eating, physical activities, 

weight management, and stress management.

 

Millions of people follow an unhealthy lifestyle. Hence, they 

encounter illness, disability and even death. Problems like 

metabolic diseases, joint and skeletal problems, cardio-vascular 

diseases, hypertension, overweight, violence and so on, can be 

caused by an unhealthy lifestyle. The relationship of lifestyle and 

health should be highly considered.

 

Healthy Choices Start With PARENTS!

 ➤Teach your children that good health depends on the right balance

 between what they eat and how much they move.

 

➤Help your children develop healthy eating habits at an early age. 

Nutritious food is something to enjoy. It helps children grow STRONG

and gives them energy.

 

➤Parents have the power to set examples. Make healthy eating and

daily physical activity fun, to help children learn good habits to 

last a lifetime. This brochure provides some tips on how you can 

promote healthy eating habits and encourage active lifestyles in

your family.

 

 

 How can KIDS live a healthy lifestyle?

 

➤ Switch off the screen and get active

Children and young people should spend no more than two hours a day

on ‘small screen’ entertainment. Break up long periods of use as 

often as possible.

 

➤NUTRITION

 The specific nutritional choices you and your youngster make are 

crucial, Good nutrition is essential to good health and the AMERICAN

Academy of Pediatrics encourages parents to think of their

nutritional decisions as health decisions.

 

 ➤ACTIVE EACH DAY

Regular physical activity is important for the healthy growth,

development and well-being of children and young people.

Parents should be good role models and have a positive attitude to

being active.

 

➤ FITNESS

There's no scarcity of activities that you can make available to 

your child, and all kids can find some form of exercise that they 

enjoy. If you can get your child interested in an activity like this

when he's young, exercise and fitness are more likely to become a

habit that lasts for many decades.

➤ EAT MORE FRUIT AND VEGETABLES

Aim to eat two serves of fruit and five serves of vegetables every

day.

Eating fruit and vegetables every day helps children grow and 

develop, boosts their vitality and can reduce the risk of many 

chronic diseases.

 

➤ SPORTS

Youngsters develop sports skills in a sequence, so each sequence 

should be maxed out for that child. If each developmental stage is 

fully formed, your active child has the ability to more completely 

reach her maximum capacity for participation in sports.

 

➤WATER

Water is the best way to quench your thirst – and it doesn’t come 

with the added sugar found in fruit juices, soft drinks and other 

sweetened drinks.

 

➤EMOTIONAL WELLNESS

Children need to realize that the world is a better place because 

they are in it.Understanding the importance of personal CONTRIBUTION

can serve as a source of purpose and motivation.

 Rules for a healthy lifestyle for KIDS