Childhood Obesity : 2016-01-10

I think that the Nutribullet, is a quick and easy way to get 5 fruit and vegetetables a day into your children, not only can they join in, creating their own drink and making their own recipes, the results are delicious.
The machine comes with many different parts, in order to juice and blend everything to perfection.

Smooth NutriBlast drinks ready in 10 seconds
Unique cyclonic action extracts maximum nutrition
Produces fantastic flavour combinations
Pulverises skin, nuts, seeds and fibre to leave no lumps

Buy one here: http://www.lakeland.co.uk/70315/Nutribullet-Graphite

A vegetable spiralizer is an easy way to turn any pasta dish into a very healthy or vegan meal.
I own this varitety, it is self storing, easy to clean and comes with three blades allowing you to create three varietys of vegetables.
Handheld vegetable spiralizers can also be purchased.
The device alows you to turn courgette, carrot, parsnip and many more vegetables into pasta.
It is also very useful for getting children to eat vegetables without knowing.
Get this modle here: http://www.lakeland.co.uk/19736/Vegetable-Spiralizer

What child doesn't like pasta?
Why not take this fact and help it make your children healthy?
On BBC GoodFood, they have lots of recipes that can transform how your child eats.
One recipe that really stood out was the minestrone pasta pot, which serves four and is incredibly easy to make.
it takes 15 mins to prep and 15 mins to cook, the recipe is quick and easy using healthy ingredients.

2 tbsp olive oil
1 small onion, finely chopped
2 tbsp tomato purée
300g frozen mixed vegetables (including peas, sweetcorn, carrots and broccoli, but not the chunky stewpacks)
700ml hot vegetable stock
175g small pasta shapes, such as conchigliette
220g can baked beans
grated cheddar, to serve
1. Heat the olive oil in a saucepan over a medium heat and gently fry the onion for a few minutes until it starts to soften. Stir in the tomato purée, then tip in the frozen vegetables and pour in the stock.Bring to the boil, add the pasta and stir. Cover and simmer for 12-14 minutes or until the pasta is cooked.Stir in the beans and heat through, then taste for seasoning. Serve hot, with a bowl of grated cheddar for sprinkling over the top.
3. What could be easier? It's been rated a five star dish, with many people saying the dish went down a treat with their kids.
4. Find the full recipe here: http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1465/minestrone-pasta-pot

'fishy fruit dip' from children's first cookbook by Annabel Karmel.
Helping you to find easy ways to get your kids into healthy food.

-Proving it's not hard to get healthy food into children-

Starting in school year 2014-15, all foods sold at school during the school day will need to meet nutrition standards. The Smart Snacks in School regulation applies to foods sold a la carte, in the school store, and vending machines. Prior to the publishing of the Smart Snacks rule, 39 States already had nutrition standards in place.

A number of tools and resources are available to help schools identify food items that meet Smart Snacks criteria. See the resources below for information about the Smart Snacks requirement, helpful tools, and ways to encourage children to make healthier snack choices that give them the nutrition they need to grow and learn.

(More from Food and Nutrition Services, FDA)

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A video that puts you in the POV of a person damaged by childhood obesity.

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Girls called ‘too fat’ are more likely to become obese

Calling a girl “too fat” may increase her chances of being obese in the future, new research suggests.

In a letter published Monday in JAMA Pediatrics, researchers at UCLA report that 10-year-old girls who are told they are too fat by people that are close to them are more likely to be obese at 19 than girls who were never told they were too fat.

And that’s regardless of what they weighed at the beginning of the study.

“Making people feel bad about their weight can backfire,” said Janet Tomiyama, an assistant professor of psychology at UCLA and the study’s senior author. “It can be demoralizing. And we know that when people feel bad, they often reach out to food for comfort.”

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You want to take on the health crisis of obesity? Be my guest. Why don’t you start by going after the brands that bully schools into accepting their processed foods in their lunchrooms? Or the fast food chains and soda companies and junk food makers that fight to deluge kids with their advertising? Or maybe stop sabotaging recess and gym time because of the obscene obsession on test prep — a distraction that keeps kids from physical activity but hey, is big business for corporations like Pearson. You could also work on educating children and families about nutrition in the home and school. Because when you simply threaten to penalize families of obese children, you’re targeting exactly the people who are often most likely to be living in or vulnerable to poverty. Positive, lifelong change doesn’t come from fear of punishment. And it doesn’t come from targeting individual families. It comes from changing the culture of how we feed and care for our kids.

—	Fining the parents of obese children is fining the poor for being poor.

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