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Ways To Stop Kids From Junking

Are you worried about your kid junking? Can you not stop your kid from junking? Yes, you can do that. You can try one of these tips to stop bad habits of children.

Junk food includes oily fried foods such as french fries and vada pao, cheese filled food such as pizza and burgers. These foods children like to eat because of their taste, easy availability and peer pressure. Therefore, it has become a little tough to stop kids from junking. Also, parents have become busy with their schedules and cannot stop these bad habits of children.

Ways To Stop Kids From Junking

Junk food can reduce the immunity of kids and make them easily susceptible to diseases such as diabetes, cholesterol and indigestion. The growth of children is hampered because of junk food as they do not get the required nutrients.

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Boldsky shares with you ways to stop these bad habits of children and how to stop them from eating junk food:

Healthy and delicious - The only thing that gets kids attracted to junk food is the taste. Therefore, to stop kids from junking, you must cook healthy food in a delicious way. Add some spices, herbs and flavours in healthy food such as vegetables, fruits and grains. The healthy food will not just taste good, but it will provide the nutrients required by the kids. You should also try new cuisines so that your kid does not go out to have junk food. Your kid should love the healthy food because of the taste.

Explain them - Another way to stop kids from junking is by explaining them that the junk food is bad for their health. After the age of 5 or 6, kids start understanding things. Their minds become fragile and you can easily manipulate them. Tell them how junk food is bad. You can also add some imaginary examples on how junk food has spoiled some kids and their health. This is a good way to stop bad habits of children.

Keep control – Sometimes, kids will not listen to you and their junking will not reduce. At this time, do not be strict and completely stop your kid from eating outside. Instead, promise your kid that you would let him eat junk food once a week if he remains obedient and eats good food for the rest of the week. Kids will understand this if they are handled properly. If they are forced to do something, they tend to do the opposite of that. This is a good way to stop your kid from junking and stop bad habits of children.

Make alternatives - If nothing of the above works to stop kids from junking, make it a point you make the junk food as healthy a possible. Choose brown bread or whole grain bread instead of normal bread, opt for low cholesterol butter and low fat food as much as possible. This will meet the nutrients requirements of your kids. This is also one way to stop your kid from junking and make them eat healthy.

Story first published: Monday, March 24, 2014, 18:34 [IST]
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