By Kac Young PhD, ND, DCH
Parents can be the most powerful creators of good heart health in their children. If they teach their kids how to eat right, cook great tasting foods that are heart healthy they can raise a generation free from the dangers of cardiovascular disease and heart attacks. What mom and dad wouldn’t want to pass that along to their children? Heart Easy can show you how to raise heart healthy kids who are also protected from Type II diabetes using a low saturated fat diet, reduced sodium and sugar while cooking food that kids love. What kid wouldn’t dive into a delicious healthy pizza or a bowl of yummy, reinvented Mac & Cheese? Heart health and good taste really can go hand in hand if you follow the Heart Easy way.
How about turning heart health into a family project? Set aside one month as Family Heart Health Month. (February is the perfect month because it is heart health month!) Invite every family member to participate at a once-a-week gathering you put on the calendar.
Provide a list in advance with the following:
Assignments:
1) Bring something you’ve learned about heart health to the gathering to share with everyone. (It can be a hand out, a website or an article you’ve read that talks about heart health.)
2) Bring a recipe to share and to prepare for the meeting that is heart healthy and delicious. (Ask for help if you need it.)
3) Research and describe the parts of the heart and how it works. (Provide visuals)
4) Pretend you’re a doctor and give heart health advice to your patient.
5) Bring in three things that constitute good heart health.
Activities: (during the meeting)
1) read a label and describe what’s good and what’s bad on it.
2) cook a heart healthy dessert together
3) make a list of your favorite fast foods and Google the nutritional content and calorie of your choices.
4) make a list of healthy foods that support your heart.
You can accomplish this by visiting www.HeartEasy.com and come out looking like a heart star to your family. There’s no reason you or your children should have to be a victim of heart disease. Make learning about heart health fun, adventurous and delicious. It’s a new year and time to change old habits and create good ones.
Wouldn’t you sleep so much better knowing that you were passing along healthy hearts to you children instead of clogged arteries and heart disease? Take an active role in their heart health by being a leader through the example you set in the kitchen. It’s easy and you can make it a lot of fun.
– Kac Young , a former television director and producer, has earned a Ph.D. in Natural Health and is a Doctor of both Clinical Hypnotherapy and Naturopathy. She is the author 10 books. Heart Easy is a system of nutritionally sound, delicious meals that promote heart health, long life and taste great. Traditional recipes are turned into heart healthy meals that anyone can make. The health results are outstanding.
While earning her Ph.D. in Natural Health and a Doctorate in Naturopathy, she completed 36 courses in nutrition from Baylor University.
She also earned a doctorate in Clinical Hypnotherapy. Her practice includes, weight control, smoking cessation, behavior modification, stress reduction, past-life regression, meditation training and phobia management. Her books include: “Heart Easy, The Food Lover’s Guide to Heart Healthy Eating,” “Discover Your Spiritual Genius,” “Feng Shui the Easy Way,” “Dancing with the Moon,” “21 Days to the Love of Your Life,” “Gold Mind,” “Cheese Dome Power,” The Path to Fabulous,” “The Quick Guide to Bach Flower Remedies” and “Supreme Healing.”