Children
Services
Do
your kids…
 |
Spend
hours on the cell phone |
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Hours
on the computer |
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Hours
playing video games |
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Tuned
into their I-pod a lot |
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Stay
in more than play outside |
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Skip
meals |
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Eat
fast |
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Eat
more fast food/prepared meals than home cooked |
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Wired,
hard to go to sleep, up too late |
I
know in this busy world, with a lot of parents both having to work, it is hard
to raise a family like our grandparents did.
But it is up to us, as role models, to create a healthy lifestyle early
in their lives.
Children
too, can benefit from my services;
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Massage |
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Relaxation
techniques |
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Learning
stretches for tension release |
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Eating
healthy |
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Whole
food supplements when life is too busy |
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A
home stretch/meditation hour for your child and friends. |
For
your child’s next birthday get-together or friends sleep-over, how about
getting them all together to learn some valuable life skills.
Kids love it!
These
are the kind of readings I am finding. A
majority of our children are not getting enough sunshine, exercise, proper
nutrition and just plain old fun, unwinding time.
These are all the things necessary for a strong, healthy, happy growing
body.
“A
generation of British schoolchildren is failing to heed the healthy living
message and is eating too much junk food and too few vegetables, exercising too
little and drinking alarming amounts of alcohol.
Many
of the children in school today risk dying a decade younger than their parents
unless they radically change their lifestyles, one expert predicted.
(This
was the most disturbing headline I read)
One
of the surprising results of the survey is children's ignorance of how unhealthy
their lives are.
While
three-quarters of those who responded said they were eating healthily, their
details revealed otherwise:
•
62 per cent admitted they did not eat the recommended five portions of fruit and
vegetables a day and nearly a fifth (18 per cent) had less than three full
portions a day.
•
39 per cent did not have breakfast every day, despite nutritionists regarding it
as the day's most important meal; a quarter had it four times a week or less.
•
A fifth of children admitted to going without any lunch at least at once a week.
•
63 per cent had at least one fast food/prepared meal a week with their families,
potentially exposing them to high levels of fat, sugar and salt. Almost one in
five had two or more fast food/prepared a week.
Children
are putting themselves at further risk of obesity by failing to do enough
physical exercise or sport.
Artificial
food colorings, preservatives, and other additives may play a role in increasing
hyperactive behavior among young children, a new study suggests.
British
researchers found removing food additives from the diet of a group of
3-year-olds caused a reduction in the children's hyperactive behavior reported
by their parents. And when the food colorings and preservatives were added back
into the children's diets, the parents reported an increase in hyperactivity.
University
of Nebraska-Lincoln nutrition scientist Judy Driskell said her recent study of
preschool children living in
“Parents
are eating a lot of lowfat and nonfat products, and we’re finding they also
give their children such things as skim milk,” Driskell said. “The lowfat
diet is probably associated with their being low in vitamin E.”
What
we have to learn is they are setting up eating and lifestyles early in their
lives that will be hard to break as they get older.
Let’s intervene now, they are our future.
Let’s invest in them.