Youth, You Are What You Eat
March 10, 2010
Is there anything that we can do to help our young people (teens and young adults) eat healthy whole foods? This is definitely one of those sorts of problems like leading the horse to the water, but not being able to make it drink.. I think the only rational option for parents, other relatives and caring friends of young people is to model wise eating, and make good healthy whole food available. Don’t complicate the issue of eating healthy food by getting manipulative (like using parental authority to force finishing a plate of food, or rewarding with unhealthy food) – you could end up with an eating disorder, which will be even more difficult to deal with.
A good starting point is to model good eating habits – role models are a strong predictor of eating habits for teens/young adults. If the home pantry and refrigerator are stocked with healthy foods, they’ll generally eat what is there. Making a transition from a home stocked with unhealthy foods is the trick. If they try to tell you that it’s abuse, for…
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