The much overuse of health related phrases such as “you are what you eat” and “healthy body-healthy mind” are just that- they’re simply overused phrases. With that being said, everything central to an individual’s existence is dependent on a healthy state of being and body. However more than just a healthy body, the effects of sugar and other toxins have proven to influence thought processes and the overall state of mind adversely.

So where does the journey of a healthy diet and exercise being? And more so, how does one influence their loved ones to walk that key journey of good dietary habits and healthy lifestyle choices? To my mind, as soon as possible! Inception of healthy dietary choices and lifestyle practices like exercise is better received when earliest introduced. In the instance of families, it begins with parents living exemplary well balanced and health conscious lifestyles. Where grocery purchase decision making reflects a balance of necessary buys to ensure intake results in optimal physicality.

It’s in this approach, homes are seen to advocate healthy diet and children become what they are exposed to. Taking it a step further, organic and free range products as well as home gardens translates into the discernment of product intake. In essence, a child is educated from early in their lives, for example, that a vegetable commercially grown is not the same as a vegetable organically grown. Education on healthy living need not be mundane but can form the basis of fun filled activities like gardening together or planting a seed and watching it grow into something with the right care and knowledge.

Exercise together with the right diet is a winning formulae and children exposed to the benefit from earlier on are seen to make healthier lifestyle choices inclusive of diet and exercise in their adult lives. Exercise can take the form of mountain biking, yoga in the garden, swimming in fresh water lakes to name a few. All in all, the message lies in how parents approach the matters of healthy diet and living. This being said, there is a world outside of your home walls so it’s equally important to give your children access to treats from time to time. In doing this, they won’t be “overwhelming” in how they respond to treats perhaps at a fellow kid’s birthday party. The main thing is the education that food is information to the body so what messages are you sending when you ingest good food verses not so good food.

If the household reflects and resonates the of benefits in eating well, resting well, pro- exercise and a balanced lifestyle from early on then choices later reflect the same or similar. That education is tasked to adults who make key choices like what to stock in the fridge, what to grab when on the go and what fun yet stay fit activities to fill the weekend with. Healthy parents equals healthy kids and a healthy home.

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