Listening to the kid in you
I loved Jimmy Moore’s (in the 30-in-30.blogspot.com blog)fantastic post on the intuitive knowledge of children when it comes to dieting. When I read All I Really Need To Know About Diet I Learned In Kindergarten, I was thinking that’s absolutely true. When you are a kid you never finish your meals. You never eat more than you need to and you eat several times in a day. You only eat when you are hungry. Moms don’t seem to understand that and try to get their kids to eat the entire meal. Kids eat in smaller portions and they play enough to get all those calories incinerated!
Kids have a lot of in-built wisdom. They never do too much of anything though we may think that they do(why some kids are obese is a different issue altogether). I think they are more tuned to their body’s needs than we are. Maybe we have to start listening to ourselves a little better.
Jimmy Moore, 30-in-30, kindergarten, weight, obesity, exercise
March 14th, 2007 at 9:34 am
Hi Neel!
I came across a news story yesterday that I reported in my blog this morning that gives a possible reason for all the obesity in our country….chemicals!
I think you are 100% right about children and the way they eat. When we were young, we were encouraged to overeat. I was pushed to eat things that I later found out I was allergic to.
I think people should listen to kids a whole lot more!
bobbi c.