blog entry 15

Julisa Centeno        

Eng101

Dr. Jason Smith

12/10/13

                                                                  Topic B

Educating children on the importance of a balanced diet is extremely important because a healthy child grows up to be a healthy adult. Many parents never teach their children on how to balance certain foods for certain days or special occasions. Although school districts are contracting to bring fast food into the school cafeteria parents have the option of packing their child a healthy lunch. Parents should learn how to encourage good eating habits upon their children and discourage unhealthy eating habits, such as eating out at fast food restaurants.  Parents should also subscribe their children in physical activities after school.

Parents should bear the weight of teaching their children on how to balance a healthy diet. Instead of grouping food as good or bad they should teach their children to save certain foods for certain days or special occasions. For example, desserts such as cheese cake should be only eaten on holidays such as birthdays, Christmas and New Year’s, and fruits and vegetables are to be eaten on a day to day regular basis.

            Although school districts are contracting to bring fast food into the school cafeteria parents have the option of packing their child a healthy lunch. A healthy lunch for a child should consist of half a plate of vegetables and the other half should consists of whole grains, meats, and proteins. Once children are taught to eat these types of food they will accommodate to them and learn that a colorful plate is a healthy one.

            Parents should encourage good eating habits upon their children and discourage unhealthy eating habits, such as eating out at fast food restaurants.  Cooking with children gives the opportunity to talk to your child about different types of foods and how healthy each food is. Cooking with children doesn’t only teach them how healthy food is but it also expands different opportunities to try different types of foods as long as they are healthy.  As long as this is done the child with grow up to always eat healthy foods and will teach future generations how his healthy eating habits helped him/her grow up in a healthy environment.

            Overall, parents should also subscribe their child in physical activities after school. There are many types of physical activities children can join such as a soccer team, basketball team, or even track teams.  These activities help maintain the child in a healthy weight. This also helps the child maintain a healthy social life, which may help encourage the child to tell his/her peers about their healthy eating habits. 

            I believe that parents should definitely bear the weight of all these decisions because they are the main care givers to these children. Many children mainly look up to their parents as role models. It has always been said “you are what you eat” and it is true. Depending on what a child eats is how he/she will feel, look, and act. It is always good to teach a child about healthy eating habits during their early childhood. Many studies throughout the years have shown that depending on what a child eats as a child is mainly how that child carries out eating habits all the way to adult hood.  This is also how generations after generations learn to eat unhealthy foods on a daily basis. Many parents do not see that by letting g their child eat anything they want doesn’t only affect the child but hundreds of generations to come. These are some of the many reasons why parents should focus healthy eating habits upon their children .