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Keep Your Child Healthy

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011


Here are some ways to keep your child healthy.

The first thing to know is that being healthy does not mean simply not being sick, but keep the body strong, healthy and energetic to enjoy life.

To keep children healthy and eager to play and study, you must ensure that they meet the six standards:

1. Eating well: a healthy balanced diet is one with the food nutritious and healthy. A good diet will promote physical and mental development.

2. Maintain good hygiene: Keep their body clean, bathe every day and brush their teeth after every meal that helps keep them healthy.

3. Breathing fresh air, visit outdoor places such as parks and avoid enclosed, poorly ventilated spaces or where smoking will contribute to good health.

4. Practicing physical activity: swimming, walking, biking… are activities that help the body to function effectively and feel activity rather than apathy or fatigue.

5. Visit the doctor regularly, keep track of immunizations, regular visits to the pediatrician, periodic review of the teeth, the eyes and ears help prevent diseases.

6. Sleep at least eight hours, eight hours the body rests and restores its energy to face the new day strongly.

You must try to inculcate in children the above, but above all to be healthy you must ensure that smile and live each day with great joy.

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Food Effects Child’s Brain

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

One of the most limiting concepts of modern science is the idea that our mind and body are separate entities. Unfortunately, it’s not just scientists who live by this false notion. It stands true for all of us. When your child suffers from difficulty in concentrating, is behaving badly or is struggling to read, does the thought of him/her being poorly nourished strikes your mind? If it does not, it is time to wake up. All these characteristics and behavior traits are governed by a network of complex, interconnecting brain cells, shaped by none other than what your child eats on a daily basis.

Fact is that most of our children are struggling to keep up. They’re living with perpetual tiredness; are difficulty in concentrating on their studies, behaving erratically or feeling anxious, stressful, irritable or depressed all the time. At such a tender age, they are experiencing sleeping problems. There is sufficient scientific evidence to prove, that too many children suffer from mental health problems ranging from attention deficit disorder to autism, hyperactivity and dyslexia; or they’re simply not achieving their full potential in school and at home because at times they don’t feel good about themselves resulting in difficulty to focus and learn. Some of these kids are simply not able to achieve their full potential in school and at home, solely because of the way they feel inside.

Fortunately, study after study shows that what you feed your child can and will increase intelligence, attention span, concentration, and problem-solving ability, as well as improve emotional response, mood and physical coordination. You, as a parent can make up for the loss, merely (by changing the child’s food habits. By doing all that, as suggested in the book “How to Increase Child’s IQ’ you will be able to fundamentally impact the way your child thinks, feels and behaves not just in the present, but also in the future as he/she grows up into a mature adult.