5 Tips From Toddlers For a Healthier You

When my brother and I were growing up my mom fed us 3 meals a day. Each of those meals always included bread (she made homemade biscuits every day) and delicious desserts. Mom loved to bake and she was famous for her made from scratch cakes and pies. If we wanted snacks in between meals there were always biscuits and some of my Grandma Layne's homemade jams, jellies and preserves. It's no wonder I grew up loving sweets and eating big meals. But that's not the way most toddlers eat and neither should I. My husband I have 5 grandchildren under 5 years old and while that doesn't make me an expert, I can't help but notice some habits they have that I should cultivate for myself and perhaps you should too! Think Small Portions We don't have to have a huge meal to be full. In fact, we feel better if we don't. Think about that bloated feeling you get after consuming Thanksgiving Dinner; all we want to do is go take a nap. We also don't have to eat everything on our plates. My family called cleaning your plate, "Being in the clean plate club," and we were praised for eating everything. The thought that I should always eat everything on my plate carried with me well into my adulthood. Young children don't typically eat a huge amount of food at once. They sort of graze through out the day like sheep. Many experts recommend eating 6 small meals a day to lose weight. The trick to making that work is limiting the amount of calories in each of those meals. If we eat more often and limi...
Source: Healthy Living - The Huffington Post - Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news