Children Eating Healthy -
ideas for desperate parents!

If you're looking for idea on children eating healthy, you've come to the right place. It's a subject close to my heart.

No matter where I've done workshops, the most common question I get from parents revolves around concerns about their childrens' eating. Everywhere I go I hear about finicky eaters, obese children or children who are underweight and I sense the desperation of parents wishing they knew what was best for their children.

I also hear about the confusion that all the nutritional debates cause for parents. I mean - is butter really worse or better than margarine? It seems there is so much contradictory diet advice that it's no wonder that what is good food and what is bad takes center stage when it comes to children eating healthy.

Getting children to eat healthily - and to sort through all the nutritional mish mash of messages - is something I've been studying for years and it's what I've researched and written about in my book "Mom, Pass the Broccoli: How to empower your child with healthy eating habits for life".

This is a powerful book, nothing like you've ever found about children's eating and inspired by reading thousands of medical and psychological journals and experts in the field. I mean,

-has it ever occurred to you that how a mother eats during pregnancy may be programming her child's eating habits?

-or that children's brainwaves may make them more suseptible to junk food advertising?

-or that our biggest challenge as parents is not eroding the eating wisdom our children were born with???

You can order a version of it in ebook (sorry due to an agreement with my publishers that's an option only available if you live in the USA or Canada) for $13.96 by clicking on the button below:

Or you can order a soft back copy from Kalahari.net

If you're having problems ordering Mom, Pass the Broccoli from Kalahari net, please let me know so that I can help you.

• The closer our food is to the way Nature intended it, the healthier it is
• Most times, the more big lettering splashed on food packaging, and the louder marketers shout about the product, the more processed and unnatural it is and the less healthy is it . The report on how marketers dupe and con us will enrage you. It'll also change how you shop.
• Be more concerned with counting chemicals than counting calories because foods low in additives, colorants and preservatives are usually amongst the lowest in calories. So, if you concern yourself more with chemicals - the calories will take care of themselves

How do you do those things? Well that's exactly what I talk about in The Coloured Hand Eating guide which is a fabulous game-based, children eating healthy guide.

And children love to play it.... actually so do adults. We emptied grannies cupboards out over Christmas to play, and I don't know who had more fun, the kids, parents or grandparents.

• What food parents keep in their homes, and what they themselves eat, is the biggest determining factor in whether their child lands up liking, choosing and eating vegetables or not. Finicky parents = finicky children.
• What childrens peers eat will often be able to change their preferences, especially if the friend is older than them.
• In a strange twist of fate, very often adults should be modeling young children and not the other way round! They have incredible wisdom about regulating their little bodies

• You cannot overfeed a newborn. Before we erode their ability to respond to their Sacred Biological order, they know when they've had enough and will stop. If we never messed with this inbuilt ability, we'd never over-eat. Nor would we have weight problems! The research on this will stun you.
• We don't have to worry about children eating healthy, we have to be more concerned that we erode their natural ability to respond to their biological needs.

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