BEAUTY KLINIC

Is your child obese or in danger of becoming obese?

Obesity is a growing problem for children in America which can lead to serious health concerns in the future. If not addressed, being overweight can lead to diabetes, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure. Children also often face low self esteem and difficulty at school due to weight problems. As a parent, it is important to control your child’s diet and exercise in order to lose excess weight. The best thing to do would be to instill healthy habits and lifestyle into your child so that he or she can maintain a healthy weight into their adult lives.

Here is a list of tips to help your child lose weight fast.

1. Prepare healthy meals at home and for school lunches

You can have a good grasp on your child’s diet if you are deliberate in the grocery shopping and are mindful to avoid keeping junk food in the home. Prepare a healthy and balanced lunch for your child to take to school and do not allow your child to spend any money on vending machine food or sodas at school. Pack fruit, a sandwich, and juice and your child is good to go. Also, have a well balanced and light dinner waiting at home. Try to avoid ordering take out or having pizza delivered.

2. Losing weight can’t happen without exercise

Promote sports and outdoor activities for your child. Sign him or her up for a sports team or some swimming lessons. This will allow your child to burn calories and fat while also exposing them to social activities. If possible, have your child walk or bike to school instead of driving them.

3. Encourage your child with kind words and non-food rewards

A common mistake is to reward your child for a job well done with sweets or a trip to a fast food chain. The best way to reward your child is to motivate them with words of encouragement and maybe other incentives such as a trip to the movies. This will help put positive associations to eating well and exercising as well as lift self-esteem.

4. Be strict about how your child spends his or her free time

Limit activities such as watching television, sitting at the computer, and playing video games. If your child insists on playing video games, it may be worth selecting the Nintendo Wii since this gaming system does require physical activity.

5. Have your spouse and yourself live a healthier lifestyle

Your child will take weight loss more seriously if the adults in the household are eating healthy and also exercising and maintaining a healthy weight. Make sports and walking a family activity and dining at the table for dinner.

6. Talk to a pediatrician for vitamins or supplements recommendations

There are natural vitamins and supplements available to help children control their appetite, increase metabolism and ultimately help them lose weight. Make sure that you speak to a doctor for advice before having your child take supplements.

There are a vast array of natural healing herbs that are available and used to treat ailments with fantastic results.

Popular herbs used in natural therapies impact positively on organ and tissue conditions helping normalise their proper function. Attending a herbalist who is experienced will ensure the best possible natural healing herbs are used to remedy your specific ailments.

Some herbs are not compatible with modern drugs so you must seek advice from a qualified medical consultant before starting any alternative approaches to treating your ailments.

Black or green tea is a wonderful way to add some healing herbs into your diet and they provide great nutritional value along with much need antioxidants.

You can easily add garlic to your food to gain some positive impacts such as improved heart conditions, reducing cholesterol and blood pressure as well as making your meals taste delightful.

Although some herbs are singled out for specific impacts on certain ailments, you can rest assured that herbs generally have very intricate compounds that will deliver many more healing effects than your intended purpose for them at the time.

You can take herbal formulas or tinctures that your health store specialist can recommend. Adding a variety of herbs to your recipes will give you excellent health benefits.

There are specific herbs that can address issues such as diet, cancer, anxiety and many other ailments and it is wise to seek these out as often times they provide just as many if not more positive healing impacts than modern day drugs do.

Each year, Christmas arrives on December 25th, and yet, it tends to “sneak” up on some of us as if we had no clue about the actual date of the holiday. In November, I begin to verbally remind myself “Christmas is coming. Christmas is coming.” Plus, I implement the following five tips of preparation to help me embrace the holiday instead of dismaying over its arrival.

1. As early as possible (preferably November) make time to clean your home and tuck away your life clutter, because Christmas brings its own bag of extras such as wrapping paper, baking, and maybe even Uncle Abner and Aunt Thelma for a five day stay. In December, none of the regular household duties and errands stop-the dust mites still need corralling, the kiddos still have piano practice and homework. 2. Plan December meals ahead by marking them on a calendar page. Scale back for everyday meals and keep them as simple and inexpensive as possible. If you can, have the ingredients in your pantry and freezer at the beginning of the month. This will save time and money and extra trips to the supermarket and being enticed to spend more. Those Christmas carols are funneled into the stores for a reason, and it’s not totally “goodwill toward men.” If I hear carols in July, I at least want to mop my floors with Pine-Sol. 3. Display in your home a symbol of why you celebrate Christmas. On her dining table, my mother placed a red Bible opened to Luke chapter 2, as part of the holiday centerpiece, a reminder of why our family cherished the season. Gentle prompts can help us focus on others and not so much on our long to-do lists. 4. As early in December as possible, gather your immediate family and list your holiday traditions, and then take a family poll. Find out which ones are favorites. Do any customs get shoulder shrugs? Consider dropping those and simplifying your December. Is there a stickler among you who has to have Aunt Margaret’s plum pudding? If so, enlist their help in hunting down suet and cheesecloth. 5. Relax. Relax. Relax. Don’t set your expectations too high. Things will and can go wrong. Holiday trees will topple, souffls will fall. Those happenings don’t ruin a holiday-they can make memories or they can cause attitudes to plunge south. Choose to laugh at those minor incidents. Laughter can grant more warmth to the holidays than perfect tinsel and trimmings.

My co-authors and I give several calming down tips in our book A Scrapbook of Christmas Firsts. Here’s a sampling:

In your home, designate a chair for a resting place and dub it “Santa’s Chair.” Tie a huge red bow on it and announce to your family that whoever needs a rest or just ten minutes of peace, they are to sit in the chair. The rest of the family is to respect this short respite and leave them alone for those 10 minutes. Parents, this can give you a brief rest or your children an oasis of refreshment. It can be a sanity saver.

Another tip we share in the book is called “Silent Night Hour.” Families are in need of quiet and silence. You may need to start out with 10 minutes of silence and work up to an hour of quiet time. During this prescribed time, family members are to turn off all electronics and not answer the phone (preferably turn off the ringer/s). They can read, do homework or work on any low-noise project. No silent text messaging either-try to eliminate incoming disturbances and see if this time of silence offers an invitation for peace and calm to descend and settle lives. Even preschoolers like to play this “quiet game.”

Cathy Messecar is co-author of A Scrapbook of Christmas Firsts ~ Stories to Warm Your Heart and Tips to Simplify Your Holiday and author of The Stained Glass Pickup. Visit Cathy at www.cathymessecar.com For other December holiday tips visit http://scrapbookofchristmasfirsts.blogspot.com/ or www.christmas-scrapbook.info

We all know kids should eat their vegetables, but many times, this is easier said than done. Here are a few tips from a vegetable-loving mom who has been there, done that!

1. Set a good example

Your kids will follow your lead. They will eat what they see you eating. Be a role model and eat your own vegetables!

2. Start young

Infants can eat boiled, mashed, and pureed vegetables such as sweet potatoes, carrots, peas, and green beans. Start feeding vegetables to your babies as soon as they begin solid foods. They will get used to the taste and vegetables won’t be foreign to them.

3. Make it fun

Toddlers and school age kids enjoy fun foods. Make faces or shapes on their plates with vegetables - a face with broccoli hair, cherry tomato eyes, and a carrot mouth. Make it fun for them to eat the face.

4. Use creative dipping sauces

Kids love to dip. Offer dips such as ranch dressing, ginger soy sauce, honey mustard, barbeque sauce. Offer new dips and sauces to keep them interested. We use little plastic cups (like from pudding) for dipping and each child can pick 2 or 3 dips at each meal.

5. Make soup

It is easy to load up the vegetables in home made soup. Let your kids help make it with you. Give them crackers to dip in the soup when eating it.

6. Make pizza

Add vegetables such as peppers, shredded carrots, broccoli, onions, sundried tomatoes, olives, etc. Let your kids help decorate the pizza, or better yet, make small individual sized pizzas and each child can prepare his own.

7. Let your kids help choose vegetables at the grocery store. Instead of saying, “Do you want carrots?” Ask them, “Which should we get, carrots or celery?” Let them be involved in the shopping.

8. Let kids choose the vegetable when preparing a meal. If you have more than one child, let them take turns. Ask them, “Which should we have tonight, green beans or broccoli?” Let them be involved instead of forcing them to eat what you choose.

9. Hide it

If all else fails, puree cooked vegetables and add them to sauces. Layer vegetables in lasagna and casseroles.

The Garmin Forerunner 301 GPS Watch is not only a great personal trainer, but also doubles up as a heart rate monitor. This amazing device is just right for you if you are working on pursuing different things, like biking and running along with other kinds of sports. This is because it includes the multiple profile functions. It is a great choice for the sporty types as well as the common people like you and me, who just want to do better on the workout rate and monitor the heart rate. 0f course, the end goal is achieving great health.

The Garmin Forerunner 301 GPS Watch is quite popular because it allows the trainer the necessary data on whether or not he or she is doing the right kind of exercise. Your heart rate can tell you how hard you are exercising. The heart rate zone is useful in deciding on the overall usefulness of your exercise routine. You can improve accordingly if you are not satisfied with the way things are going. It shows your heart rate prior to your workout session. After you begin an exercise routine, it tracks the difference in the heart rate by using the AutoLearn function of the Forerunner 301. It keeps changing the heart rate zone with the intensity of your exercise techniques.

The Forerunner 301 Fitness Watch offers three distinct profiles for recording your sprinting rate, biking rate, and performance in other exercises. All you need to do is to hold on the Mode switch to navigate between the different profiles. This option helps you to go for triathlon and dualthlon choices. You can be able to do exercise in different methods and monitor its how things are progessing by looking at the intensity through the Forerunner 301.

You can start measuring the effectiveness of your exercise regimen with the Forerunner 301. This product can work with the software called Garmin training center. With graphs and clear-cut charts, monitoring your speed, heart rate, the time consumed, and distance covered is rendered effortless. You can see the workout records in a map and get a grasp on good or bad trends in your exercise routine. MotionBased is a website where you can upload your workout records. You will find it easy to check on your records with several web components by Garmin. Professional sports performers can enjoy the website TrainingPeaks, which offers enhanced features to keep track of your workouts.

The high resolution of the Forerunner 301 screen is a definite component. It weighs in at not more than 78 grams. You can get up to 15 years of life out of the battery. Because it is protected from water and has GPS, it is one item that is a must-buy these days. It offers you the ability to keep the lap record of 5000 laps. You are able to have 100 waypoints in the Forerunner 301. Ten routes are available in the 301. The screen may be customized and you can have pace alerts when you are working hard. You can set the interval and workout timings, also.