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Healthy Lifestyle

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It's all well and good that adults are free to put whatever kind of processed high fat foods they want into themselves, but children should be educated on how to eat properly. Unfortunately there are a high number of children who are fed poorly at school and at home. It is no secret that a balanced diet prevents obesity and heart disease, even diabetes. We should take steps to ensure that our children are aware of the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. One only need look across the Channel to see the difference! Mothers need to make more of an effort with regard to what their children eat - it seems that many have simply given up even cooking proper meals nowadays - and will give their children junk food because it is easier than cooking. But at the end of the day, if their parents feed them junk food at home, children will not grow up with a taste for fresh fruit, vegetables and whole foods, and as soon as they can choose their own food they will eat what they like. A total ban on junk food seems very draconian and unenforceable, and children would find ways to hide it. A more sensible approach would be to sell healthier snacks, such as fruit, energy bars, milk, low fat crisps etc cheaply in the tuck-shop. The problem of fizzy drinks, the main culprit of tooth decay, could be solved by bringing back free milk for all primary school children, which would provide the additional benefit of calcium.

Parents, school and state education department (Government) plays the main role in this. Mainly before we move to school and education department. As parents what are the necessity have we done for our kids future, wake up in the morning go work back from work spend a little time with kids and sleep is normal rotation of human life now a days. Spend some time to think on what we are trying to say here it's our future, human race can be distinguished by another 100 years with the amount of intake of chemicals in human body today.

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