Being a Role Model for Good Health from The Mushroom Channel

Being a Role Model for Good Health from The Mushroom Channel:

Here are tips for helping yourself and your child to good health:

• Eat the healthy foods and drink the beverages (water, low-fat milk, and 100% juices) that you want your children to consume. For example, research shows a mom’s own milk drinking habit is linked to more milk and fewer sugary drinks in her child’s diet.

• Make every effort to have family meals at home and serve as a healthy role model. Keep those meals full of enjoyment and free of criticism.

• Exercise together (take a walk, bike ride or do yard work) and exercise independently to serve as active role models.

• Avoid pressure or restrictive feeding practices at mealtime. Pressuring, cajoling, and threatening will not get kids to favor healthier foods in the long run, and the opposite may occur.

• Engage in healthy lifestyle changes to address a healthy weight, rather than restrictive, unhealthy diets.