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Toddlers Nutritional Study - Fast Food

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Toddlers Nutritional Study - Fast Food

Yale Universtiy released a study of toddler nutrition and fast food. It found that little ones are seeing ads for eight fast food restaurants an average of 3 times a day. They ask their parents to go there and actually do on average 2-3 times per week. The eight were studined and defined 3,000 possible combinations of meals. Only 12 were considered nutritious. On the whole, too many calories are served in portions that are too big. You might want to look up the study to see if your little ones should be guided away from eating these meals.

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Re: Toddlers Nutritional Study - Fast Food

Have you seen this yet?

Professor Haub's Twinkie Diet

This guy lost 27 lbs in 10 weeks, mostly eating Little Debbie cakes.   I think the bottom line is that what you eat isn't nearly as important as how much- and most of us (including kids) simply eat way too much.

If you encourage kids to make better choices and don't enforce the clean-your-plate rules (especially when eating out where the portions are large) eating out doesn't have to be a long-term fat sentence.

For example, a Happy Meal with 4 nuggets and apple slices with milk is under 250 calories.  When I find myself at McD's, that's usually what I order but with diet coke instead of milk.

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Re: Toddlers Nutritional Study - Fast Food

Hmmm...well, if the toddlers are seeing that much tv, that should say something right there. blink On the topic of fast food consumption though, fast food is convenient and many busy parents turn to it. We need to put the "care" back into childcare. Our children depend upon us for their nutritional needs. Caring for children takes time and effort. Make some of your child's favorites and freeze them. What you make and freeze is more nutritious than what you buy frozen in the grocery store. We often say we don't have time for things in our busy lives but we usually find the time for anything that is really imporatnt to us.

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Ha!  When my son was a toddler, all he would eat was chicken nuggets.   The doctor said he'd grow out of it and he did, but toddlers and eating is one of those things where you don't always get your way.   As long as they are eating, you have time to help them form good eating habits when you can reason with them better.  The doctor was right, IMO.

I'm learning real skills that I can apply throughout the rest of my life ... Procrastinating and rationalizing.     ~Calvin & Hobbes

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Re: Toddlers Nutritional Study - Fast Food

The twinkie diet cracks me up!! I've been looking for that diet! clap

Just because a kid asks to go out to eat, doesn't mean you do it!  I guess some people do, but wow.  And just because you go out doesn't mean the kid can just order anything they want.

My kids love apple dippers and chicken nuggets.  You can eat out sometimes and order kids healthier choices.  People who choose not to, well, it's their choice.   I just can't get over how these studies think that people are being misled into giving their kids unhealthy food.  People know it, and they just don't care.  my opinion, anyway!

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