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Feeding Healthy Habits A 10-Step Guide for
Helping Children Thrive by Melinda Hemmelgarn
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t’s not easy raising children in today’s media-saturated landscape. From TV and video games to internet and
mobile devices, our kids are exposed to a steady stream of persuasive marketing messages promoting low-nutrient junk foods. Both the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Psychological Association warn that media’s pervasive infl uence over children’s food preferences increase their risk for poor nutrition, obe- sity and chronic diseases later in life. Protecting children against marketing
forces may seem like an uphill battle, but these strategies can help provide a solid foundation for good health.
Teach children to be media savvy. Andrea Curtis, Toronto-
based author of Eat T is! How Fast-Food Marketing Gets You to Buy Junk (and how to fi ght back), says, “Kids don’t want to be duped.” By showing children how the food industry tricks them into buying foods that harm their bodies and the Earth, we can turn kids into food detectives that reject processed foods and sugary drinks.
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Feed children’s curiosity about where food comes from. Take
children to farmers’ markets and U-pick farms; organic growers reduce exposure to harmful pesticide residues. Kids that might turn up their noses at supermarket spinach tend to eat it in bunches when they’ve helped grow, harvest and prepare it. T at’s the story behind Sylvia’s Spinach, a children’s book by Seattle-based author Katherine Pryor.
Introduce children to the rewards of gardening. Connie
Liakos, a registered dietitian based in Port- land, Oregon, and the author of How to Teach Nutrition to Kids, recommends introducing children to the magic of planting seeds and the joy of caring for a garden—even if it’s simply a pot of herbs on a sunny windowsill or a small plot in a community garden.
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Teach children how to cook. Teresa Martin, a registered dietitian
based in Bend, Oregon, says learning how to cook frees us from being “hostage to the food industry.” She believes cooking is such an essential life skill that we should be
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