Healthy B.P.M.

Tired of wrestling with your kids every night at the dinner table to eat their vegetables? Unfortunately kids are made to dislike vegetables. We all know how important it is to get our kids to eat a variety of fruits and vegetables, especially when more kids are becoming obese. I watched an episode on Oprah dedicated to this challenging issue for parents. One of her guests, Dr. Oz, says there’s a very good biological reason why it’s so hard to get kids to eat their vegetables. In fact, they are hardwired to not like them. Dr. Oz says when our prehistoric ancestors searched for food, their children were most susceptible to poisons, which often taste bitter. So instead of liking something bitter—like broccoli—children tend to crave sweet and bland foods like dairy or chicken nuggets.

Children also have a biological reason not to like certain foods. Flavorful fruits and veggies may actually taste differently to kids than they do to adults. “An older adult has 3,000 taste buds,” Dr. Oz says. “A kid has 10,000.”

Dr. Oz says we run into problems when we don’t allow our taste buds to mature. “That’s the big challenge we have in America—we’ve infantilized our taste buds. When a 3-year-old wants hot dogs, a burger, fries, a shake, cola, that’s not abnormal. When a 30-yr old likes those foods, we’re in trouble.

It is interesting to note that celebrities face the same issues at the dinner table as we do. Oprah had Jessica Seinfield, wife of comedian Jerry Seinfield, on discussing her new book, Deceptively Delicious. Jessica spoke about how discouraged she was when fixing healthy meals for the kids - and them not eating it. This prompted her to find a way to slip vegetables into every meal - without them knowing it!

What is so facinating and amazing is that Jessica’s recipes are not just for the kids. There is a wonderful brownie recipe that is to die for! Check out more exerpts and recipes from show here.

I hope this story has inspired you to be more creative in the kitchen in order to win the dinner table war!

Kids, Eat your vegetables, Deceptively Delicious, Jessica Seinfield, Kids Corner, Oprah

I’m on vacation now….I have this bad habit of carrying around my work with me; so I’ll be posting….:)

I think most of you have forgotten about the contest on 451press…the more comments the more chance of you winning $300…so this is the time you can critique, comment or rant on my blog….I’l l be happy to see you here.

How is the walking challenge going?

Right now I’m sitting in my room as the babies sleep. vacations are now more for the kids than for me. They are excited by every new person they meet. I’m just reading and since I’m in a holiday mood; I’ll be posting more consistently from Monday. What will I do for my vacation?

DESTRESS!

Happy weekend!

There was a glitch yesterday; so i couldn’t get my regular post up.

Anyway …..this story worried me.

Babies born to women who are anxious or depressed while pregnant may have trouble sleeping at night as infants and toddlers, a U.S. report suggests.The study, published in the journal Early Human Development, assessed more than 14,000 women in Britain.

The parental environment that you give your child can change the way they respond to the environment around them. Stress causes increased exposure to stress hormones like cortisol and this may disrupt a child’s formation of a bundle of nerve cells in the brain that tunes the body’s internal clock.

Even after you have your child your stress levels are only going to rise. I know. How do you deal with stress if you are a mom? Some advise I have got from my mom and friends:

*Keep some help. Domestic help can make your life much easier.

*Don’t lose your temper with the kids, ever.

*Look after your health.

What I think is that you have to spend more time on things you love. For me it’s reading. That’s what I miss most. If I can catch up on my books, I’m happier, do my chores better and play with the kids more.

Here is a good link for stressed out moms.

How do you moms out there juggle your life and kids?

I liked this post about how moms juggle work and home:

To juggle, by definition is to hold, catch, carry, or balance precariously; almost drop, then catch and hold again. That described my life. Keeping everything up in the air was exhausting.

To balance is to maintain a state of equilibrium; equal distribution of weight, or amount.

Work-at-home moms have it good with the opportunity to make money and be at home but that has its share of stress factors too. What moms who work at home or in the office have to do is to find harmony in their life instead of try to have it all.

How do you do that? You make a checklist of what you want in your life right now.
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