Better Health Through Honest Dialogue
Annemarie Colbin, Ph.D, and Lawrence Palevsky, MD, offer their views on why parents must take responsibility for what their children eat, and why nutritional education is important.
Holistic Anarchy presents the views of Annemarie Colbin, Ph.D and Lawrence B. Palevsky, MD. (Please click on the page tabs above for more information about us and the Holistic Anarchy mission.)
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Annemarie, Lawrence,
Yes, I believe that we as parents are responsible for what are children are eating… how we fed them at home from infancy, the foods we eat are usually the foods our children will eat, well … parents need to set healthy examples of food choice, but if the parents are not making healthy food choices then their childrens will not be able to as well, so actually parents will need to be educated in knowing what foods are healthy… I have several friends (parents) who do not know a thing about healthy food choices, they believe that “fruit-roll-ups” are a good substitute for fruti???? and that “tums” are a good source of calcium???? that fiber supplements and multi-vitamins will help their children stay healthy since they don’t eat right, … so hard to believe that there are so many people who really believe this way.
Denise makes an excellent point! The Food IQ of parents needs to be raised. Right now the ones doing the nutrition education is the food industry, we’ve all fallen prey to their health claims and use of language that benefits profit share, not our kids bottom line.
How do we reach parents that think a fruit roll up is a fruit substitute?
I ditto you both - and would like to add that our children are intelligent people that will want to make a good food choice if they understand what is a good one and what is not.
Instead of tricking and forcing the children to eat certain foods we, as parents, must make sure that they understand why this is a good choice and in particular why other foods are not. Educating the younger ones to read labels can not start early enough.