Are Your Bad Habits Making Your Kids Fat or Fit?

     Are your bad habits making your kids fat or fit?

If you want to keep a Fit Teenager Versus a Fat Teenager then these 2 Rules you must apply

Breakast for your Teens brains

Want to give your teen a head start to higher grades in school? Bring on the breakfast, says Nutrition Expert Pyles. A study found that skipping breakfast has no negative effect on teens ' attention spans in high school ; however, students reported feeling more alert after eating breakfast .

In an article in the August 2008 issue of Pediatrics , researchers tested teens' ability to remain alert in class when fasting and after eating breakfast. During the study , half of the 104 students (aged 13-20) consumed breakfast, while the other half-the control group-did not; midway through the study the teens who were the original controls were given breakfast , while the other half were not. The teens were tested and measured for cognitive functioning, attention sustanibility and alertness.

Although consuming breakfast did not have any effect on the teens' ability to sustain attention, it did make them feel better: their moods improved after eating their morning meal , and they scored better on memory tests then they did after fasting.

"With an increasing number of children and adolescents skipping breakfast, there is a need for scientific studies evaluating whether omission of breakfast affects the cognitive functioning and mood of fasting students," the researchers concluded. In my opinion you should practice making your kids eat breakfast this will start them out with good behaviors and habits early on to prevent weight gain in the years to come. Remember it is easier to change in your youthful years because as you get older your metabolism slows down.

Why lack of sleep makes kids fat and you should be aware

Researchers know that people who sleep for only a few hours each night are more likely to be obese. But now a new study has shown that those who are sleep deprived during childhood are at significantly higher risk for becoming obese as adults.

Study participants included a cohort of 1,037 boys and girls born between April 1972 and March 1973. Parental reports of bedtimes and rising times at ages 5 , 7, 9 and 11 were used to estimate childhood sleep times. The researchers later compared participant's sleep times to their body mass index (BMI) scores at age 32.

Shorter childhood sleep times were significantly associated with higher adult BMI values, even after adjusting for other potential factors, such as socioeconomic status, parental weight or physical activity /television viewing.

Writing in the November 2008 issue of Pediatrics, the researchers concluded that "these findings suggest that sleep restriction in childhood increases the long-term risk for obesity. Ensuring that children get adequate sleep may be useful strategy for stemming the current obesity epidemic." This is a very serious matter and very close to my heart for those of you who know me or may not know me. I was an obese teenager and experienced this first hand you must take a stand with your kids! This will affect many areas of their life, so let's work together as one.

Light's out, kid's!

By, Natalie Pyles

Fitness, & Weight-loss Expert, Nutrition Specialist, Author, & NSA Speaker

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