A Parent's Guide To Preventing Obesity Among Children

Childhood obesity is starting to become a major problem in America according to experts. In fact, in the United States alone almost twenty percent of children from two to eighteen years old are overweight. Fortunately, there are things you can do in your own home to prevent this epidemic-like condition from happening to your children. Basically, you can start by educating your children on the importance of developing healthy eating habits. They can learn these things from school but if you don't show your kids how to apply them in their daily lives it would be useless. Let your kids watch while you're cooking and when they become a little bit bigger, you can teach them how to cook as well.Take the kids with you when you go out to shop for

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