Help Your Children Lose Weight Now

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By: Anne Arsenault

What is more important than the Health of your Children? A Healthy Child is one who is NOT overweight, but what do you do if your child is overweight?
First, you look at the reasons he/she is overweight, then you make a plan with one goal each week, in order to help your child lose weight. You encourage him or her, you DO NOT put them down or be-little them about their weight. Keep a journal to document the reasons and the progress of the weight loss.

So what are the reasons children (and adults) are overweight these days:

*not enough exercise
*too much sugar (white flour also turns into sugar)
*too much soda pop (even one a day is too much, including diet)
*too much fruit juices
*not enough pure water
*too much flour products, especially white flour products
*too much baked goods, donuts are the worst
*too much bad fats, fried fats like chips and fries

For the first week, look at the drinks that are consumed. How much soda pop is drank in a day? How much juice do they drink; is the juice even 100% real juice, or 10% real juice? What is the other 90%? How many glasses of purified (not tap) water do they drink in a day? Reduce the soda pop and juice and add more water. Water will help not just with weight loss, but also with temperature regulation (they will handle the heat better), cleansing and energy.

For the second week, get more exercise Even going for a 20 minute walk will provide movement that is beneficial for the body. It will help the body to cleanse and the blood sugar to regulate. When doing homework ,watching TV or on the computer, get up and stretch every 15 minutes or so. If you make a point to go for a walk with your child, you can also use that time for a little communication.

The third week, look at the sugars and white flour they eat. Add more fiber; use a Sprouted Grain Bread, eat more fruits and veggies, eat more low fat proteins. Read the labels, there is a lot of sugar in processed foods. Cut back on the sugars gradually, as if you go cold turkey, you will experience head aches and other symptoms because sugar is a drug. White flour turns into sugar in the body, because the fiber is removed and fiber slows the release of sugar into the blood stream.

For the fourth week, look at the fats they consume. How much of their diet are hydrogenated or fried fats? Our bodies desperately need fats, but we tend to eat mostly the bad fats. Good fats that we should feed our families are:
*olive oil
*fish oils
*raw nuts and seeds
*flax oil
*coconut oil

How do we get these fats into our children and keep the bad fats away? When you consume enough good fats, the cravings for the bad fats start to diminish. The good fats feed the brain, protect the organs and keep the hair and skin healthy. Use olive oil to make salad dressing (Greek salad is good), buy some raw nuts and seeds, cook fish more often, and make protein blender drinks with a spoonful of flax oil in it. (1 tablespoon per 100 lbs).


When you start to change the diet, reduce the unhealthy foods and incorporate the healthy foods, the body will start to lose weight on its own. It is a slower proccess, but this is the healthy way to lose weight. Remember to read those labels on foods and drinks, drink more pure water, be aware of what is consumed in a day, be the example to your Child and don’t forget to get more exercise.

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Anne has been helping people get healthier, both by consulting and writing for years now. She has written a book on Children's Health and you can find more information at www.childhealthebook.com. She feels that Children's Health is the most important health issue facing us today.