Obesity among children is a growing problem in the United States.
It is one of the easiest and most evident medical conditions to identify, but the hardest to treat.
Children are getting heavier and heavier due to poor eating habits and lack of physical exercise.
Obese youngsters have every chance to turn into overweight grownups unless adults help them change bad food patterns.
Weight control for children or teenagers is not easy but with some effort in making health-friendly eating a family pursuit we can succeed.
We all know that kids just love all types of junk food.
Sweets, pizza, french fries, hamburgers, potato chips, and soda have always been on top of the yummiest snacks with children.
Healthy, weight-friendly, nutritious foods, on the contrary, inspire neither passion nor appetite for the young ones.
For them vegetables, fish, grains sound dull and absolutely tasteless.
But getting children eat healthily is not hopeless! Making it fun will do the trick.
There are good proven ways of putting it into practice.
One of the most successful methods of serving quality foods for kids is sneaking them along with what they like most.
Be smart and creative.
Try 'smuggling' vegetables and fruits with children's favorite dishes.
If they love pizza, pack it with lots of veggies.
They are crazy about muffins or pancakes? Stuff those with apples, forest fruits, or bananas.
Use your imagination to serve the food in an amusing and compelling way.
Take time to arrange healthy snacks on a plate in a way that makes them look like saying 'Try me'.
With very small kids (no more than 4 years old) playing funny name games works very well.
Name veggies, fruits and other nutrition foods and make entertaining stories about them.
Finish your tales with the humorous-named food items being swallowed by a kid or hiding in a cave or tunnel (the kid's mouth).
The foodstuff will get gobbled in no time at all.
Sure it takes time on your side and a bit of invention but it is worth every effort.
Children are notorious for disliking veggies.
The taste does not appeal to them much.
If you manage to enhance the taste of health-friendly foods, your kids will gulp them down happily.
Everyone loves pita so put vegetables in a low carb pita bread to encourage eating.
Throw a bit of tasty dressing to broccoli to add great flavor.
There are numerous ways to spice food up for a better taste.
All you need is some creativity and sure your kids will soon take joy in eating healthy foods.