Teaching Kids to Eat Healthy – As Easy as Recognizing the Colors of the Rainbow!

Teaching your children to eat healthy doesn’t have to be the dreaded task like most fear it to be. If you can teach your children colors, you can teach them about eating healthy using the same concept. Take your children to the grocery store with you as you are teaching them to recognize healthy food by color. If they feel they’re involved with the selection, they’ll like to show what they’re learning and are more likely to pick up healthier eating habits. Here are a few colors and some of the foods associated with them to begin teaching your children with:

• Red: Red fruits and vegetables like tomatoes, strawberries and watermelon are full of lycopene and anthocyanins. Lycopene is important to prevent lung and prostate cancer and anthocyanins are considered to help fight certain cancers and diabetes.
• Orange: Orange vegetables like yams, pumpkins and carrots are rich with alpha and beta-carotene which are important in the prevention of cancer.
• Yellow: Yellow vegetables like squash and yellow peppers are high in Vitamin A. Vitamin A is important in keeping your immune system healthy.
• Blue: Blue fruits like blueberries and concord grapes contain Resveratol which is important for maintaining good heart health
• Green: Green veggies like spinach, kale and broccoli may be a little more difficult to convince your kiddos to eat, but it’s important that they do so as they are rich in lutein and flavanols. Lutein protects us against heart disease as well as protecting the eyes from cataracts while flavanols give the heart an overall health boost.
• Purple: Eggplants, plums and blackberries are full of anthocyanins. If you remember, these are important to help fight certain cancers and diabetes.

By using this color method, you will be exposing your children to different fruits and vegetables that are important to their overall health and teaching them at a young age will help them develop a love for these different foods on into adulthood.

Traveling While Expecting

Taking a holiday while you are pregnant is not only still possible, but it is actually a terrific idea, particularly if it is your first pregnancy. After all, it is likely to be quite some time before you’ll get another chance to lie on the beach and truly relax once baby has arrived!

There are, of course, things you need to take into consideration prior to setting off, however, especially if you intend to fly. In most cases, it is safe to fly while pregnant, with the second trimester - the fourteenth to twenty-seventh weeks - being the easiest, as you will have higher energy levels and morning sickness will no longer be a problem.

If you have any medical issues during your pregnancy, such as the likes of spotting, a previous early birth, high blood pressure or diabetes, however, you should always check with your doctor first before making any flight plans.