Healthy Eating Guide for Toddlers: Exert a Good Influence

Certain things will affect children very much.  Divorce, school, and
eating habits will all exert their influence.

So, if you can introduce some healthy habits early enough, you can have
a big impact on your toddler's life.  By being a responsible mom, and
showing toddlers a healthy eating guide today, do you know you can instill
such good habits in your youngster that you help him (or her) ward off
hypertension, diabetes, and high cholesterol later on in life?

Healthy Eating Guide:  What are the Best Breakfast Fruits?

Some nutritionists will advocate eating healthy fruit in the morning.
As breakfast is in fact important, you will want to have some really
healthy, beneficial foods to start your toddler's day off right.

Fruits such as blueberries, blackberries, and raspberries; with the
Anthocyanins they have, and the anitoxidants which can neutralize
free radicals and/or unstable oxygen molecules, these berries are
potentially very good for your child.

Make it into a fun game - there is a wonderful website where all the
beneficial fruit is all listed in alphabetical order, and you can sit
at the computer and have your youngster look at the pictures of fruit
and say them aloud.  And then click on the link beneath the pic,
and you'll be taken to "FUN facts" about the health benefits of the
fruit.

For instance, with "Fig" you would see listed that its benefits are
reduced risk of Colon Cancer, Alleviation of Hypertension, reduced
risk of Stroke etc.

Healthy Eating Guide:  Steel Cut Oats

If you have to, order your cereals online at Amazon.com - that is, if
your child is a big problem in that aisle of the grocery store.  You
can find gluten-free oats at Amazon and other places, which are much
healthier than those instant packages of oats.

You don't want him bouncing off the walls - so try to stay away from
those breakfast cereals with loads of refined sugar in them. 

If you do a subscription, at amazon you can get a 4-pack of steel cut
oats (gluten free) for $16, which are in 24 ounce bags.  Not bad, for
the kind of health benefit you and your family can receive.

Berries and Other Breakfast Fruits: Which are Optimum?

It will ultimately be your choice, as the mom, but this is the website
with the colorful listings, and helpful Fun Facts on fruits:
healthaliciousness.com/fruits/index.php

Or you can visit my Healthy Eating Guide too.  It is a comprehensive
listing of 15 separate articles on Healthy eating on the go, Healthy
Eating for the Heart, and other Healthy Eating articles.

Healthy Eating Guide for On the Go

It is important for you to put some forethought into trip preparations -
i.e., every time you will be out of town, or visiting someone for the
holidays, buy some healthy items to take with you.

That way your kids won't be at the mercy of whatever your sister has in
her cupboard-
which might be pop tarts, Cocoa Puffs, or danish and pastries.

And talk to your kids ahead of time, about the fact you'll be having
some healthy snacks for them - communication is key.  Maybe even set
the cereal out the night before, so that very young children can get
used to the idea.

Healthy Eating Guide:  Drink Teas and Real Fruit Drinks

Really, very  essential that you get your young toddlers used to
enjoying natural fruit juice drinks, green tea, sun tea, water before
they can develop a nasty habit of going for soda pop drinks.

Sodas, as you probably know, have so much bad stuff in them.  Better to
steer clear. So if you can just do things together - like making sun tea
naturally, in your back yard in the summertime.  And perhaps join a Tea
club online.  Start discussing different sorts of tea (green tea, peach
tea, black tea, raspberry tea, chamomille, etc.)

And focus on premium fruit juice drinks such as Minute Maid or other
high quality, all-natural brands if you can.  Or make your own.

Healthy Eating and Green Drink

There is the green drink too; you could order the "Super Food" green
powder and add healthful juices, like apple, carrot juice, papaya,
blueberry juice, or pomegranate.

Or you can order it already made up - places like Amazon.com have it in
a 12 pack for around $57.

It's never too early to start cooking with garlic and
olive oil - both of which are good for your children's hearts (and
yours, too).

 

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