Teaching Your Children How to Eat Healthy Food

By Pragya Singhal

Teaching your children how to eat healthy food book is written to solve the one of the biggest problem of mothers of today's world i.e. how to teach kids eat healthy food themselves. This book provides you with the insight of what actually you are feeding to your kids. Food is the basic need, there should be no such fuss about it. Yes, we should take care of our child but besides taking care we have to make them independent individuals as well. Think for yourself if your kid can't eat food themselves how will they survive in the society. Most of the mothers think kids are not eating enough food but data shows that child obesity is on the rise. These are two contradictory statements which prevails in the society. This book will help you in finding the solutions of all these questions. In present times there is a need for change in the lifestyle of a whole family then only we can deal with the lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, hypertension, obesity. The purpose of this book is a very direct and simple one. This is simply a practical, direct action, personal improvement manual. It is written with the sole objective of helping the reader to achieve a healthy lifestyle for themselves and then to the future generation i.e kids.

• Language: English
• Publisher: meetcoogle
• Release date: Apr 16, 2018
• ISBN: 9781370310449

Pragya Singhal

Pragya Singhal is a nutritionist and writer. She is a gold medallist, having Master degree in the field of Foods and Nutrition from G.B. Pant University, Pant Nagar. She is teaching the college students for over 10 years and enjoys teaching and research in the field of nutrition science to young minds. She is also a yoga and meditation practitioner for over 14 years She is keen observer of nutritional trends and eating behaviour in different part of the world. She does what she loves with great passion and enthusiasm. She believes that being positive can create miracles in life. She thanks you for spending your valuable time and treasure on this book. She loves to hear from readers in the form of a book reviews.

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CHAPTER – 1

WHAT IS ACTUALLY PACKED IN PACKED FOODS

As a parent we want our kids to provide best of everything be it education, environment, food anything. But how to judge if what we are giving is the best or not. If we talk about foods, we can judge on the basis of what we see or taste for example if we buy an apple from the market we can see if it smells good, is fresh it should be red in color etc. Now question is what if we are buying packed foods? We can inquire for the ingredients, packaging, expiry date, company etc. The truth is really far from what it is written on the packaging. First of all let's find out what are processed foods.

Foods are divided into three categories:

Group 1: unprocessed, minimally processed.

Group 2: substances extracted from whole foods

Group 3: ultra-processed (group 3 foods).

Group 1:

Unprocessed foods

Unprocessed foods are found in their most natural form, such as growing on a bush, tree, or in the ground. Picking a guava right off the plant and eating it is an example of this category. Neither we have added anything to it nor we have extracted anything out of it.

Minimally processed foods

Minimal processing includes cleaning and removing inedible portions, refrigerating or freezing, pasteurizing or fermenting, pre-cooking or drying, and bottling or packaging. Examples are frozen and canned vegetables and fruits; milk; intact whole grains such as barley, oats and cracked wheat; dried beans; and shelled nuts. Raw meats are also group 1 foods.

Group 2:

Substances extracted from whole foods

Substances extracted from whole foods are things like oils, flours, sweeteners, starches and fats. These items have been removed from a food because of their usefulness in these modified forms. They are not typically eaten by themselves and are most often used as ingredients.  You may not even recognize their name on an ingredient list (modified starch for example can come from many different carbohydrate whole foods).

Group 3:

Ultra-processed foods

Ultra-processed foods are what many of us usually think of when we hear the phrase ‘processed foods.’ Cookies, ice cream, soda, frozen dinners, hot dogs and sugary breakfast cereal. These foods are often made of group 2 foods and prepared to look like group 1 foods. For example, instead of pieces of actual fruit there are artificial fruit snack bars.

If you were to make biscuits at home it would contain only a handful of ingredients. However, mass-scale food processing, requires an entirely different system of assembly, one fraught with often conflicting expectations. Why do you think food companies manufacture different products? The first priority for the companies that make processed food, is that they sell that food to consumers, so that the company makes a profit. That's one of the main reasons why companies process foods in the first place. When a food manufacturer takes a relatively cheap raw ingredient, like corn for example, and then strips that food of most of its nutrients, the food is going to last longer. Because pests like mold for example, are less attracted to foods that are low in nutrients. Manufactured food needs not only to taste good, but also to withstand the wear and tear of processing. It has to look and taste exactly the same every time. It also has to have a long shelf life, be produced cheaply and efficiently, and on top of all that, it would be nice if it could be marketed as healthy for instance low fat, high fiber.

Food company's use preservatives and coloring matters and other food additives in the foods manufactured by them and call these addictives by different names say 511, 612 etc  they will never write the exact ingredient they are using if they do so it  will surely bankrupt every food industry in the country.

Sodium Benzoate is one of the most commonly used food additive. The chemical causes a disturbance of the metabolic functions and injury to digestion have never been scientifically proven. Yet it remains a controversial ingredient, implicated in childhood hyperactivity when used with artificial food colorings. If more parents would actually eliminate foods that contain all of these additives from their children’s diet, instead of drugging them up, their children would be a lot healthier.

Many children today drink a lot of sodas, which contain sodium benzoate, not to mention high fructose corn syrup. Kids should not be allowed to drink sodas! They’re fattening and increase hyperactivity. When used in foods with high acidity, the sodium benzoate combines with the acids to form benzene, which is a carcinogen. A research study published in a British medical journal, illustrates that drinks containing food colorings and the preservative sodium benzoate nearly double children’s hyperactivity levels. The study used approximately 300 children in two age groups: 3 year olds and 8-9 year olds. Some of the children were given drinks with amounts of dyes and sodium benzoate contained in a typical British child’s diet; the second group was given drinks with a lower concentration of the two additives; the third group was given drinks with no colorings or sodium benzoate. Teachers and parents (who did not know which children were drinking which drinks) were given different rubrics to determine their levels of restlessness, concentration, fidgeting, talking and interrupting. These tests revealed that children in both age groups given the drinks with the colourings and sodium benzoate had greatly increased hyperactivity levels. Also, this is troubling that sugary drinks accounted for at least 20% of America’s weight gain between 1977 and 2007

Here are some other foods that may contain sodium benzoate that you should check the labels before you buy:

BBQ Sauce

Salad dressings

Jelly, Jam and other spreads

Fruit juices

Syrup

Sports & energy drinks

Flavoured water

Mixed dried fruit

Canned fish

Sweet treats & cakes

Dessert toppings

Saccharin is another one of the most commonly used food addictive. Discovered in 1879 and 300 to 500 times sweeter than table sugar, saccharin is added to some foods to reduce the calorie count without stripping the food of its sweet flavour. It was banned for use in food in 1911 and then un-banned during World War I, saccharin has had a roller-coaster record of safety. Studies done in the early seventies linked the chemical sweetener to bladder cancer in rats, prompting the FDA to attempt to ban it again. But outcry from the beverage industry and millions of diet soda drinkers forced the agency to shelve this plan. Instead they required all products containing saccharin to carry warning labels stating that the substance is a proven animal carcinogen. Three decades later, when scientists discovered that the urine of rats is different from that of humans in ways that make their bladders more susceptible to cancer when saccharin is consumed, the FDA repealed the warning label requirement. In 2000, they declared the 130-year-old chemical safe. Certain diet and low-calorie foods contain saccharin, and they include the artificial sweetener in the ingredient list. Foods that contain saccharin are Low-calorie or diet baked goods, soda or artificially sweetened beverage, powdered drink mixes labeled as diet or sugar-free, Fountain Diet Coca-Cola contains a mixture of aspartame and saccharin, low-calorie jams or jellies might contain saccharin, Low-calorie candies and dessert toppings.

Yet another ingredient popularly added to the packed foods are Synthetic vitamins. Parents also think that these packed foods contain added vitamins so they must be healthy for our kids. Contrary to popular assumption, vitamins added to products in the manufacturing process almost never come from the foods that contain them, or any other foods for that matter. Just as vitamin D doesn’t begin with egg yolks or cod liver oil, vitamin C has not been squeezed from an orange, and vitamin A has absolutely nothing to do with a carrot. Nor does calcium somehow originate from milk or cow bones. Vitamins can be derived from foods, but doing so is inefficient and wildly expensive, so hardly anyone does it. A French company called Naturex sells vitamin C from acerola cherries, a fruit loaded with the nutrient. But their product ends up being five times more expensive than the standard synthetic variety. Getting manufactured vitamins from food might also be problematic from a supply-demand point of view,