Teaching children how to eat healthy. Teaching children to be responsible for their health!!!

Does anyone want to e-mail me their story about what they are doing to help their children understand what needs to be done to stay healthy. Or what you are doing to be healthy!!!

While raising my children I read as much as I could about how to raise healthy children. I made every effort to teach them how to eat a healthy diet of veggies and fruit and whole grains (and raw nuts), a little meat. I still have 5 growing boys at home and I am still trying to teach them good eating habits!!! It is a challenge sometimes!!!

I tried to teach them that it was mine and their responsibility to take care of themselves, not the Doctors or the Governments responsibility.

I taught them how important it was to drink a lot of water. And to try not to get carried away with eating a lot of sugary desserts and candy. I didn't say they could never have it though; I knew they would feel deprived and get carried away and eat too much sweets if I kept them from eating any sweets at all.

I always have to add that good health is always about body, mind and spiritual health. We always feel more healthy when we are active and living a well balanced life. Most important to me is having a good relationship with my Heavenly Father and with Jesus our Savior and Redeemer. If we have a good relationship with them it help us handle the trial in our life and health problems!!!

Life happens and we will have set backs in our health even when we try hard to eat healthy. Car accidents, falling, slipping on snow, breathing and drinking in toxins into our body will cause bad health. (solution: cleanse the body (herbs) and drink clean filtered or distilled water). Another thing that causes health problems is not knowing how to handle stress and having it in your life a high percentage of the time!!! Not getting enough restful sleep.