CHILDREN'S HEALTH

Introduction

This page is designed for parents or caregivers, or anyone interested in making a healthy difference in a child's life.

Often it is hard to change the habits we already have or habits we are use to. We know that fast food really isn't the best choice for our kids but we still choose to feed it to them because it fast, easy, and cheap. This site will help unfreeze you from your old habits and help you establish new ones. It will help you move to a new level the next you think about obesity and the importance of nutrition. Look at the facts and causes of obesity to motivate you to change, while the simple strategies can help you change and establish the change as a new habit or part of your child's new healthier life (Lewin as cited in Kaminski, 2006).

Why Change Do We Need to Change?

In Canada, the problem of obesity has become an epidemic in both children and adults.

One in four adults are considered obese. One in ten children are considered obese.

There has been increasing concern about how the effects of an unhealthy childhood contribute to sickness and diseases in adulthood. Most people think being healthy is doing only healhy activities, but by increasing the amounts of healthy things you do you can be creating a healthier child even with a small difference such as enrolling your child in a sports team. This website will offer some simple and easy ways on how you can create change in a child's life to create a healthier lifestlye. Using Lewin's change theory, this site will help you unfreeze unproductive thoughts preventing change, and hopefully move you to a new level of healthy lifestlye where the changes are maintable and can be refrozen into a new lifestyle (Kaminski, 2006).