Take care of your children’s health through these easy methods

Take care of children’s health from the beginning because many children are sick due to low weight, while many children are obese. Both these situations are problematic. Our country has the second largest number of children suffering from obesity in the world and moreover, children suffering from anemia, vitamin B12 and vitamin D deficiency are also very high here. This is a complex problem and parents will have to make efforts to overcome it. The school can also be helpful in this.

There are some small but important steps we can take to give our children a better, healthier and happier future. Here are 6 of the most important steps we can take as a family or as a community-

Learn to say NO
To understand the growing problem of obesity among teenagers in the European Union, a study was conducted there for five years, named ‘I, Family’. This study has given a message to the parents, learn to say no.

The next time your child pesters you for an iPad, a packet of chips, a cola or a chocolate, say no with firmness. According to the study, this is the way to protect children from cardio-metabolic syndrome in the future. Children with this syndrome may be prone to obesity, diabetes, heart diseases or fatty liver.

Encourage Children to Play
For the last five years, the number of children suffering from fatty liver has increased. This happens because of hyperinsulinemia, in which the body’s muscles stop responding to insulin and the liver is overburdened by the overproduction of this hormone. That’s why it is necessary that according to the age of the children, the strength of their muscles should be increased, for which the better way is sports. So give priority to children’s play over everything else for at least 90 minutes every day.

Teach me how to Cook
It is being recognized worldwide that children should be involved in cooking from the age of 4 and it should be a part of the school curriculum. Children will learn how much water is added to flour to make roti, or how adding a spoonful of curd to luke warm milk turns it into curd within eight hours, this will also stimulate their imagination.

Don’t be swayed by ads
In many countries, advertisements for packaged products for children cannot be shown. On the other hand, in our country, on TV screens mothers feed their children corn syrup or milk mixed with preservative powder and tell how their children’s memory or height has increased due to this.

Most of the time, we do not even hold our celebrities responsible for selling colas, chips, instant noodles etc. and fall under the influence of catchy advertisements and hum-worthy jingles of these products.

The food industry makes every effort to make us buy their readymade products, but do not think or cook anything. To a large extent, our ‘Kolakaran’ has happened. So till the time advertisements are not regulated, it is the responsibility of parents and schools to teach children about the pros and cons of advertising.