How to get your kids to eat healthy foods

Well parents, I can tell you it isn’t easy but it's very rewarding once you see your child eating a piece of fruit or vegetable. Many children I see are eating nothing but crap and drinking constant juice instead of water. I won’t say I was never did that as a parent. It took me going a holistic doctor to force me to try to get my daughter to eat healthy. She was very ill for over two years and didn't eat much but when she did, she ate horribly. I felt guilty telling her know and just wanted her to eat, especially, since she was on medication. I knew that the medications affected her stomach if she didn't have any food that day, so my main concern was just to make sure she ate. Not realizing at the time, that I was making her illness worse by giving in and giving her any food she wanted.

I’ve always been fairly health conscious but when my child was ill, I didn't always make the right decisions on what she ate. After two years of illness and being on all different types of medications, I finally realized that I can't give in anymore and that I needed to fix her health. So at first, I did what the doctor told me to do and that was starving her until she ate what I wanted her to eat. Well at 3 years old, that really didn't work. It worked on some foods but after a while she caught on. That might work with some children and I suggest trying it because it is the easiest way to attempt to changing their diet. But what does work and what health coaches specialize in is, what foods to introduce first an

d how to introduce them. Now, if your child has health conditions you need to be more aggressive on what I’m about to tell you, but most children this will work in just a few weeks.

First step, start to hide the healthy foods in the bad foods. For example; if your child loves mac and cheese, hide veggies that are the same color as cheese and cut them into tiny pieces so that your child doesn’t see it. Increase the amount of veggies in the mac and cheese every time they eat it. Second step; slowly take bad foods out of there diet and offer healthier options. For example; take out the fruit roll-ups and introduce, carrots and dip. Third step; offer them a treat when they eat their entire meal. This allows them to make the choice to eat the healthy food and while doing so, it starts to change their taste buds. These steps will take a few weeks or as long as a few months but slowly, the child will start asking for those healthier foods. Nothing is easy in life, this will take time and patients. If you start to eat healthier and constantly show your child, your child will want to be like mommy and daddy.

The older the child, the harder this will be. The younger the child, the easier this will be. At home you need to be strict and start teaching your children this because in school they have all the bad foods they want. The trick is to eat a 80/100 diet. Eighty percent of the time eat very healthy and the other twenty percent eat basically what you want. Ideally, eating healthy 100 percent of the time is the best option but we are all human and don’t always follow the rules. But I can tell you from experience, when I began eating healthier 90-100 % of the time, I didn’t want the fast foods or foods that are highly processed. Reason being, I felt sick from those bad foods or in most cases I didn’t like the taste anymore. That sounds crazy right, its not. Your taste buds change over time eating these healthier foods, I can tell you that I don’t like candy anymore or McDonald's, the thought of eating those things gross me out. Even my 5 year old now tells me, she doesn’t want certain foods because it hurts her belly or makes her “shrink”. Bad foods equal “shrinking foods”, healthy foods equal “grow foods”. One other trick to stick by when explaining why they can't eat the bad foods anymore.

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