How to make Smart Food Choices?

One of the great things about the average shopping trip is, for some, also the most difficult: the wide range of food choices available. Where once people could eat only (for the most part) what was raised near them and what was either in season or able to be preserved, today we can enjoy a wide range of foods from the common to the exotic to the highly processed with just a meander through the grocery aisles. How are you supposed to know what’s a smart food choice and what’s not?

The first step in improving your overall choices. Choose foods with the most nutritional value for your money. A good rule of thumb, is to go back to basics — that is, to eat relatively unprocessed foods. Shoot for 100 percent whole-grain products, fresh or frozen fruits or vegetables, low-fat or nonfat dairy products and heart-healthy fats. To help you make the best choices, try to eat every three to four hours — you’ll avoid that famished feeling, which can lead to picking foods with less nutrition.

Paired with what to eat is how much you choose to eat of any given food and how to balance your plate at every meal.

Need guidance on what to reach for in those categories? Contact: Nutrition@bkk-health.com

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Chrysanthemum

Iced chrysanthemum tea is one of the most popular drinks in Thailand available at most markets or restaurants. It is reputed to be a stimulant and tonic for the eyes, liver, heart, and nervous system. Therapeutically chrysanthemum is used to  treat all disorders of the liver end eyes, irregular or blocked menstruation, menstrual cramps and PMS. It is also said to cure headaches and sore throat, to lower fever, and to calm the mind. It is mildly bitter tonic, which can be sweetened with any natural sweetener to make a delicious hot or cold beverage.

Nutrition for children

Proper nutrition in childhood can reinforce lifelong eating habits that contribute to your children’s overall well being and help them to grow up to their full potential and a healthy life.

Unfortunately all too often parents tend to give up sticking to healthy eating habits, scared the kids don’t eat enough, or wanting to avoid hassle, and objections on the lunch or dinner table.  Some parents also telling me that while they don’t eat at home much and don’t cook, it is difficult to eat healthy and just easier to eat what’s available without giving a thought about nutrition at all.

When my kids have been small, they often would have come home telling me how jealous they are that their peers have chips and cookies packed for break time in school. While my kids had fruits, veggie sticks and nuts. My response to that always was, that it is my responsibility as a parent is to feed them strong, healthy and smart and  that other peoples eating habits are not my concern.

Today my teenagers are making the right choices by themselves (almost every time J). They have grown up strong, healthy and smart and today they start to appreciate that they have no allergies, no pimples, no difficulties in school, don’t suffer of any diseases, nor are getting flu’s , are enthusiastic athletes, active and full of energy. As for being a teenager their hormones are relatively balanced and as girls don’t have any menstruation pains or difficulties.

As a parent you can make a great difference for the future health and happiness of your children in sticking to healthy eating habits. Don’t give up because it is easier. You and your children will pay the price (hospital & doctor fees and long term damages you cannot treat) for it in the years to come.

Would you like to get more information about how to create a healthy and balanced diet for your kids contact: nutrition@bkk-health.com