{"id":963,"date":"2011-10-03T18:51:15","date_gmt":"2011-10-04T01:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/?p=963"},"modified":"2011-10-03T19:05:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-04T02:05:09","slug":"cook-and-eat-together-to-end-childhood-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/cook-and-eat-together-to-end-childhood-obesity","title":{"rendered":"Cook And Eat Together To End Childhood Obesity?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" align=\"left\" alt=\"salad-and-bread\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_1695(1).jpg\" width=\"300\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,cursive;\">What can be done about childhood obesity?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: comic sans ms,cursive;\">&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-family: &quot;comic sans ms&quot;;\">First we must recognize that it is an epidemic &#8211; a major health problem.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;comic sans ms&quot;;\">&nbsp;This is important because many people do not or will not see obesity, especially in children. But almost 1\/3 of our kids are obese. It&#39;s why I wrote a book called: It&rsquo;s Not Always Baby Fat!&nbsp; [Available for your <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0054KY4QC\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;comic sans ms&quot;;\">Kindle<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: &quot;comic sans ms&quot;;\"> or for your <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/search.barnesandnoble.com\/Its-Not-Always-Baby-Fat\/Lynn-Dorman-PhD\/e\/2940012937230\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;comic sans ms&quot;;\">Nook<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family: &quot;comic sans ms&quot;;\">]<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;comic sans ms&quot;;\">In my book, I write about some of these suggestions in more detail. I know that for some families my suggested strategies may not be easy &ndash; but parents &#8211; these are your children and no one ever said child rearing was easy [especially me!!] <br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;comic sans ms&quot;;\">Here are some simple strategies for YOU &ndash; as the parent you can:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;comic sans ms&quot;;\">&nbsp;set a good role model<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;comic sans ms&quot;;\">&nbsp;learn about nutrition<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;comic sans ms&quot;;\">&nbsp;talk about nutrition<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;comic sans ms&quot;;\">&nbsp;discuss the effects of obesity<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;comic sans ms&quot;;\">&nbsp;get more exercise<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;comic sans ms&quot;;\">Here is an easy-to-do strategy &#8211; plan, cook and eat meals together with your kids. <br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;comic sans ms&quot;;\"><u>Kids like to cook<\/u>. Have chats about what meals they can make &ndash; with your help and without! Work out the menus; plan fancy meals, quick meals and meals to freeze. Plan this out before shopping. Make a list of the meals and needed ingredients and then go to the store. <br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;comic sans ms&quot;;\">Cook up a storm together with your kids one day a week and freeze the foods you are not eating that night. It makes it very easy then to have good, healthy and fast meals all week. Microwaves are good defrosters &ndash; but if you do not have one, take out the frozen meals in the morning and they will defrost by dinnertime. <br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;comic sans ms&quot;;\">Cook or warm up the meals or let the kids do that. Have the kids set the table and maybe let them decorate it as well. A festive table makes for a nicer meal. <br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;comic sans ms&quot;;\">Turn off the TV, the radio and the &quot;whatever-your-kids-own&quot; stuff. <br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;comic sans ms&quot;;\">Sit down. Eat. Converse. Laugh. Enjoy a meal together!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 12px;\"><span style=\"font-family: &quot;comic sans ms&quot;;\">Comments? Thoughts? Thank you.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What can be done about childhood obesity? &nbsp;First we must recognize that it is an epidemic &#8211; a major health problem. &nbsp;This is important because many people do not or will not see obesity, especially in children. But almost 1\/3 of our kids are obese. It&#39;s why I wrote a book called: It&rsquo;s Not Always [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[343],"tags":[532,259,248,262,385,360,533],"class_list":["post-963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology-and-parenting","tag-child-development","tag-childhood-obesity","tag-food","tag-health","tag-human-interest","tag-parents","tag-psychology-and-parenting","post-wrapper","thrv_wrapper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.graywolfproductions.com\/parenting201\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}