How to Teach Kids Healthy Eating Habits | Ask The Expert
How to Teach Kids Healthy Eating Habits | Ask The Expert
Establishing healthy eating habits early in a child’s life can help them make good food choices for the rest of their lives. Pediatrician Dr. Mackenzie Coffin offers quick tips on how to help your child achieve optimal health with their diet, offers tips for healthy food options and more. Learn more: https://www.scripps.org/6907yt
0:05 - What is your best parenting advice?
0:30 - Why is it important to start healthy eating habits at an early age?
0:59 - What are some good healthy options for kids to eat?
1:19 - What happens if kids don’t eat healthy?
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0 -> (upbeat pop music)
7.36 -> - So, I think in thinking
about the best piece
9.29 -> of parenting advice to
give, my experience with
11.81 -> what has worked in my own
family, with my parents,
14.96 -> with my friends, and my patients,
16.73 -> leading by example for your
children is really the best way
19.84 -> to try to enact healthy
choices, make positive change.
23.53 -> Whether it's from eating healthy
to dealing with conflict,
26.28 -> really just modeling the things
you want your kids to do.
29.179 -> (upbeat pop music)
31.54 -> It's really important to try
to get your kids to establish
34.33 -> healthy habits with their
food habits from a young age.
37.54 -> We know that the way the brain works,
39.64 -> the patterns that you set
into place as a young child
42.7 -> tend to follow you into your adulthood.
45.16 -> Food is for nourishment,
it's not for boredom,
47.16 -> it's not for entertainment.
48.31 -> Don't buy those cookies if you know
49.86 -> you're gonna eat the whole thing.
50.96 -> Setting up those healthy expectations
53.35 -> and relationship with food early on
55.57 -> keeps it going your whole life.
56.932 -> (upbeat pop music)
58.89 -> There's all sorts of
different kinds of choices
60.93 -> you can make when trying
to find healthy foods.
62.88 -> So there's the obvious,
fruits and vegetables.
65.71 -> You can spice it up a
little bit with some hummus,
68.26 -> some peanut butter in
the right serving size.
70.69 -> Check serving sizes when
you're using things like that.
73 -> Hard boiled egg, you can
prepare a bunch all at once,
75.7 -> it's right there and easy to choose from.
77.686 -> (upbeat pop music)
80.43 -> If we don't set our children
up with healthy eating habits
83.25 -> from an early age, we are
doing them a disservice.
86.14 -> If we have unhealthy eating
habits, we're at higher risk,
89.34 -> especially if we become overweight,
91.45 -> of things later in life
including diabetes,
93.76 -> high blood pressure, joint disease,
96.05 -> heart disease, and high cholesterol,
98.01 -> that really we have
the option and ability,
100.62 -> and the need to prevent
starting from an early age.
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=967Sj35HMbs