A study has found that the best way to encourage children to eat healthy food is for parents to set them a good example.
Parents who want their preschoolers to eat their vegetables should set a good example, and make healthy food choices themselves.
Researchers found that children who piled up on sweets, sugary drinks and salty snacks generally had parents whose typical grocery list featured such items.
The findings, reported in the Archives of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, suggest that even very young children do not indiscriminately reach for candy when given the chance. Instead, they seem to form food preferences — potentially lasting ones — based on their parents’ shopping carts.
Researchers at Dartmouth Medical School studied 120 young children who were allowed to “buy” food from a play grocery store. They found that even two-year-olds tended to mirror their parents’ usual food choices.
The grocery store can be like a classroom, where parents teach their children that foods like fruits, vegetables and whole grains take priority over snacks and desserts.
Fish “can lower kidney disease risk”
Eating fish twice a week may help reduce the risk of kidney disease for diabetics. A new study revealed that a “unique nutrient composition of fish” may benefit kidney function by enhancing blood glucose control and improving plasma lipid profiles.
British researchers looked at the consumption of fish of more than 22,000 adults, including 517 with diabetes. The participants’ fish consumption was determined using dietary and lifestyle questionnaires.
They found diabetics who ate fewer than one serving of fish per week were about four times more likely (18 per cent) to have protein in their urine than those who ate at least two servings of fish per week (four per cent).
The study was published in this month’s issue of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.
Parents who want their preschoolers to eat their vegetables should set a good example, and make healthy food choices themselves.
Researchers found that children who piled up on sweets, sugary drinks and salty snacks generally had parents whose typical grocery list featured such items.
The findings, reported in the Archives of Paediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, suggest that even very young children do not indiscriminately reach for candy when given the chance. Instead, they seem to form food preferences — potentially lasting ones — based on their parents’ shopping carts.
Researchers at Dartmouth Medical School studied 120 young children who were allowed to “buy” food from a play grocery store. They found that even two-year-olds tended to mirror their parents’ usual food choices.
The grocery store can be like a classroom, where parents teach their children that foods like fruits, vegetables and whole grains take priority over snacks and desserts.
Fish “can lower kidney disease risk”
Eating fish twice a week may help reduce the risk of kidney disease for diabetics. A new study revealed that a “unique nutrient composition of fish” may benefit kidney function by enhancing blood glucose control and improving plasma lipid profiles.
British researchers looked at the consumption of fish of more than 22,000 adults, including 517 with diabetes. The participants’ fish consumption was determined using dietary and lifestyle questionnaires.
They found diabetics who ate fewer than one serving of fish per week were about four times more likely (18 per cent) to have protein in their urine than those who ate at least two servings of fish per week (four per cent).
The study was published in this month’s issue of the American Journal of Kidney Diseases.
