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Powerful Tips for Preventing Obesity in Your Kids #19 – When Watching That Big Game - Protect Against Mindless Eating!

10/28/2015

Avoid this trap of mindless eating! Emotional eating is a disease in our society. It is fun and social but terribly unhealthy to plop down in front of a flat screen with the family to enjoy a sports event or a movie while munching on highly processed sugary, fatty, salty and calorically charged snacks. Overcome this pitfall with healthy snacks like celery, carrots, cucumbers and strips of brightly colored peppers with salsa; unbuttered and lightly salted popcorn; or a bowl of brightly colored berries.

Next Post: Monday, November 2, 2015: Powerful Tips for Preventing Obesity in Your Kids #20 - Don't Expect your Kids to Make Smart Food Choices if You Don't!

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Powerful Tips for Preventing Obesity in Your Kids #18 – No Bags or Quarts on the Couch

10/21/2015

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Don't let your kids bring bags of chips or quarts of ice cream to the couch. This is a habit that nearly always leads to overeating. Dish out a reasonable amount of your child's snack in the kitchen and stick to that. A simple change of a common behavior like this can prevent the consumption of many unnecessary calories.

Next Post: Wednesday, October 28, 2015: Powerful Tips for Preventing Obesity in Your Kids #19 – When Watching That Big Game - Protect Against Mindless Eating!

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Powerful Tips for Preventing Obesity in Your Kids #17 – Understand “Portion Distortion”

10/14/2015

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Over the past 30 years, the portion sizes of food we are served is all too often ridiculously disproportionate to our energy needs. We eat Frisbee sized bagels and flower pot sized muffins! As a result, this constant bombardment of inappropriate serving sizes has caused us, as a society, to develop portion distortion. This is the inability to recognize these grossly inappropriate amounts of food as abnormal and unhealthy.

Next Post: Wednesday October 21, 2015: Powerful Tips for Preventing Obesity in Your Kids #18 – No Bags or Quarts on the Couch

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Powerful Tips for Preventing Obesity in Your Kids #16 – Dole Out Meals in the Kitchen

10/7/2015

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In an effort to teach appropriate portion size and prevent overeating, dole out healthy single servings of food in the kitchen and don't make pots of food available on the table. This helps teach children about healthy portion sizes and reinforces this notion on a continuous basis. Also, if the food is not within easy reach, everyone is less likely to grab for seconds.

Next Post: Wednesday October 14, 2015: Powerful Tips for Preventing Obesity in Your Kids #17 – Understand “Portion Distortion”

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Powerful Tips for Preventing Obesity in Your Kids #19 – When Watching That Big Game - Protect Against Mindless Eating!

Powerful Tips for Preventing Obesity in Your Kids #18 – No Bags or Quarts on the Couch

Powerful Tips for Preventing Obesity in Your Kids #17 – Understand “Portion Distortion”

Powerful Tips for Preventing Obesity in Your Kids #16 – Dole Out Meals in the Kitchen

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