Help Kids Develop Healthy Eating Habits

• Especially with young children...YOU ARE IN CONTROL as the parent!  Offer only healthy choices at every meal.
• Limit eating out, and strictly limit fast food.
• Eat meals as a family.
• Let children choose from what's offered at a meal and then eat as much as they want.  However, never encourage them to "clean their plate"  Instead, help them tune into their own sense of fullness.
• Make desserts only an occasional treat.
• Try growing some of your own food, which may help your kids try something new.
• Say NO to soda and sugary drinks!
• Eat breakfast every day.
• Make food colorful, and ideally include five servings of fruits and vegetables a day.
• Limit screen time - this includes TV, computer, video games, cell phones - to two hours or less a day.
• Model healthy behavior and make physical fitness part of every day.