Suggestions for Healthy Family-Oriented Lifestyle Choices

  • Aim to have at least 1 family meal together each day
  • Encourage children to help cook and shop for the family meal
  • At mealtime, turn off the TV
  • Let the child decide on how much of the food will be eaten; the parents should decide:
    • What will be served at a particular meal
    • When the meal will be served
    • Where the meal will be served
  • Limit intake of desserts and sweetened drinks
  • Provide snacks on a regular basis; discourage eating in between meals and snacks
  • Insist on breakfast
  • Limit
    • the intake of juice, even 100% unsweetened juice, to no more than 2 6-ounce servings per day
  • Ignore the children's menu at restaurants. They are too often filled with high-fat, poor food choices
  • Do not use food as a reward
  • Encourage healthy eating by eating healthy yourself; children are great mimics
  • Turn on the stereo and dance
  • Reduce the time you spend being non active in half over the next 3 months (for example, if you currently spend 4 hours being inactive, reduce it to 2 hours per day)
  • Be active yourself; plan activities to do together as a family, such as:
    • Ride bikes
    • Walk
    • Swim
    • Learn a new sport together
  • Try buying presents for your children that require them to be active

Arkansas Department of Human Services Pfizer Health Solutions

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