“You are what you eat”, “cut down on the burgers, eat more fruit and veg”, that’s what my parents used to say to me. Lets be honest as kids did we ever listen to our parents, that was back many Moons ago. On a serious note the fatty tissue in overweight or obese people may produce more hormones and growth factors than people of healthy weight, and now many doctors and dieticians believe that eating the correct foods not only keeps your weight down but may also help in the prevention of many cancers, including mouth,
bowel, stomach and breast.
It is estimated that as many as 1-3 women and 1-2 men will develop some kind of cancer in their lifetime. As parents have to convince our own children to eat health or cancer will consume everyone’s life. That’s why is very important to encourage our children to eat healthy now.
Children follow by example, so if we start to eat more fruit and vegetables they will get into a habit of eating them, try them with raw carrot sticks and adding more vegetables into their favourite foods. Some other ideas are to make faces on their plates with food, make healthy eating into a game.
Get into the routine of going out for a walk in the evening again this will stop your children from getting lazy, research shows that taking regular exercise could help prevent as many as 3000 people from getting cancer each year.
