Overweight Kids
Childhood obesity makes the papers. The figures. Is it a miracle?
By: Nan Andrews Amish
Phys ed classes are not funded in many public schools, they are ineffective in many others. Fat is the last legal bias. Children make fun someone else, and the fat child is fair game. Heaven help the fat content of a child in shorts, if the fat content you can for all to see. Bullies will not allow.
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kids spend hours in front of the computer, and their neighborhoods are unsafe.
Here are some strategies for growing strong, healthy, mentally and emotionally stable kids.
Emotionally
1. Recognizing that, you know that it hurts when children make fun, because, what they look like. Help them build emotional intelligence by recognizing how they feel, and help them build empathy for others, are different and fun of.
2. Recognizing that, you know that children eat worse than they do, and not about the struggle they have with weight. The message is that you appreciate it may not be fair and healthy that it is not easy, and it is not necessarily their fault, but that they still are responsible for what they can do to manage it. Watching a skinny minny eat cookies and milk shakes and sandwiches and French fries and never gain a pound is discouraging, as you eat your salad, carrots and chicken or lean tuna.
Food and diet
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3 If the child eats a lot of junk food, see if you can change these habits. Junk-food stack the deck against children, because the processed white sugar, white flour and processed food additives are designed to be addictive and increase the appetite. Deprivation is not the key, but the food selection helps treat with caution. Give them messages like their body is their temple, they need to treat them well. Metaphors job what would it lard in a sports car. No, they would fuel in the best they could afford it. Facilities as that.
4. Invite overweight children shopping with you, and teach them to read labels. Do they have the experts so that they have the tools to choose wisely and /or splurge, but understand the importance of splurge.
5. Invite (as opposed to force or punish) overweight children to try different foods to help you eat less junk. For example, fresh fruit. A Burrito with filling protein like beans, as opposed to completely empty calories. Nuts as opposed to chips. Baby carrots, even.
Exercise
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6th For most overweight children is the best way to help them is to crank their metabolism. Exercise is the best way to do this. Fit Kids get bullied less. Fit, strong children rarely get bullied. Fit, confident, strong children with extraordinary physical abilities never bullied. If the child has rhythm, they dance, T'ai Chi, akido. If they have two left Fae, they try to kick-boxing or wrestling. If they want stuff team, football is big and there are teams for all abilities and all sexes. If they are particularly "round" and have lots of soft baby fat, try swimming, they float better than all their friends thinner. Weight Lifting for boys, a win.
7. Martial arts is always a profit. It builds discipline, muscle, aerobic capacity and confidence. Select after the child's abilities, or try what their friends or geographic location are available. Kids know martial arts know-how to breathe, they know how to concentrate, they have strength both internally and externally. You do not get bullied.
8. Health is the best revenge. So use every opportunity to participate actively with your child. Go to the video store. Go with them to talk about what is happening in the school. Set to music and dance. Exercise prices options in the House, as rebounders, trampoline and swings for the younger ones, jungle gyms, etc.
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Special Programs
9. If your child is much harder in summer camp to do all of the above with many other children are struggling with the same. Not all camps are the same, so check them out. But an 8-year-old, spend 4 weeks is healthy and active during the summer, loses as little as 10 pounds, grows 2 inches has a great way to start Back to school in the autumn. They are stronger, leaner, more confident, tan and met tons of new friends.
10. If your child is much more difficult, consider working with a naturopath, homeopath and holistic nutrition person. Why holistically? Often children who struggle more than a few pounds, other things will happen if they are not dealt with, this will be a struggle uphill. You can create a lack of a nutrient. Vitamin C is a widespread shortage with children, crave sugar, for example, potassium is often little children, like salt. Kids have many antibiotics may not have good bowel flora and need acidophilous, Bifidus. Kids seem to eat the whole time and are always hungry, may be slightly heavier. Addiction sugar, wheat allergies, pre-diabetes, or even a parasite.
11. If you have a child overweight and have other children who are not in the same room with a family meeting where the whole family decides how they help each other address Each of family members questions. Call the Big Questions child is shameful, but if the family helps a child with spelling master and another child with food, it is like and create family (team) spirit. If the family decides that to help the child with food fight, that there are no Oreos in the house, the support is great.
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them a edge
12. Go for organic. Skip the Wall Mart and Costco specials. Overweight children are sensitive to other kids stuff. Organic foods have fewer additives, less hormones (designed to cattle and chickens in weight), less genetically modified foods be less allergic to chemicals to create immune responses. Bio-products taste better, and it could be less fight for a child to snack on cherry tomatoes that melt in the mouth, as tomatoes that taste like cardboard.
13. Grow other child strengths. If they are large in spelling, encourage competition in the Spelling Bee. If they are musically inclined, you can find places to sing, play. If computer or video games are your thing, so they are very good at these skills so that they have confidence from these other perspectives.
14. Be empathetic about their appearance. Treasures that a plea by an overweight child to "blend" or "fit in" is more burdened than a plea from a child who is looking for more mainstream. Help them choose clothes, flattering and they fit really well. Make sure that clothes they can move in which it is not uncomfortable. (I knew that a youthful, hated to run until they got some shorts and pants that do not rub, for example. Then she went anywhere, because the pants were not rubbing a hole in her thigh!) Make sure that the clothes are age appropriate and sufficient style, they are not the butt of more bullying because of their clothing. It costs more than you would prefer, because most graeren Graen cost extra, and changes are always at the top. Know a good place for things to change, so that when you buy a graeren Grae to an abdominal graeren the rest of the garment is not so large, there is still room for Aunt Matilda which also there. Here you can really help your child fit. With the purchase of slightly better quality, materials not show Big Bulge for example, or a garment, that's really well done and is large, your child will look smaller than they are. Good underwear to count, especially for girls. One way to help them feel special with accessories for example, or shoes.
15. Back to Basics, they are not alone. Let them know that they are beautiful inside. Assess the unique and special things that they are. News of beauty often. Compliment best features, additional efforts, movement and food victories. Take it to films like Shrek, Harry Potter and others, where there are heroes, not all stick thin. Show them the art representation of ancient cultures, if not so thin was in. (Botticelli, Rubens, African tribes, for example). Give them unconditional love and acceptance, regardless of their success or failure in each of these areas.
16. Be spiritual.
Nan Andrews Amish, the Business Healthcare Contrarian is the founder of Big Picture Healthcare a strategy consulting firm which provides expertise in consumer directed healthcare, healthcare marketing, and strategies to decrease benefit costs by 20-30% while improving talent management. Nan offers Management Consulting, Facilitation, Workshops. Contact her at nan@bigpicturehealthcare.com or (650)560-9800.
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