Fats Are Good For You!

Teach Kids To Eat Right Fats Means Lifelong Health

It is important to teach your children from a young age to eat healthy fats. Starting as young as possible, show your kids an appreciation of the healthy fats.  The healthy fats, the fats that will ensure good health, are in fish, nuts, seeds, and plant oils.  By eating a little less meat and avoiding the saturated fats and trans fats which are in most processed foods, fast foods and junk foods - your children will lower their total fat calories and enjoy more of the benefits that healthy fats have to offer. As your children get older, the exposure to these foods will show up in the choices they make their entire lives.  It takes 14 exposures to a new food for a child to be willing to try it, so start when they are young and you will impact their whole life.

A study published in the American Heart Association’s journal of August 2007 focused on more than one thousand children in Finland who were followed from the age of 7 months through age 14.  The researchers found that children who were taught to focus on the healthy fats in fish, nuts, seeds, and plants had slightly lower cholesterol levels compared to children who ate a “bad fat” diet by the time they reached the age of 14.  This is good news, and the real important piece of this is that with the habit of eating the right foods, focusing on the good foods, they will be able to maintain good cholesterol levels into adulthood.  Good fats keep cholesterol in check!

Good Fat VS Bad Fat

Check the ingredients list of all your processed food purchases. The healthy fats are listed as unsaturated fats, monounsaturated and polyunsaturated.  The unhealthy fats are saturated fats and trans fats.  With better fat-focus, your children will live a longer and happier life! All natural diets include good fats.

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