How Can Cooking with Family Promote Healthy Eating

Family Time Can Help us become Healthy

Not only has lack of family caused use to stop communicating but a good example of the lack of time spent together would have to be the family dinners that now have almost disappeared. For this reason children today have fell into the trap of not eating healthy. Family dinners can help the children have set times to spend eating. It is as if they know now is the time to eat and when you are done, you will not eat until everyone sits at the table. However, because of this reason, we have come into the time where we eat any time of the day even if we just ate, there is no specific time to eat. This has be one of the main causes for obesity in our country today. As I stated earlier, family time is extremely necessary and eating meals together as a family can be one step to help decrease obesity today.

It has been proven that cooking your own meals can help promote healthy eating habits. In addition, this can cause us to be informed about what we are eating and if we know that we will be able to make small changes to our diet to help take another step into cooking healthy, while maintain a tasty meal.

In the article be Marge Condrsky entitled, Cooking with a Chef, they example that family meals have dramatically changes and declined over time. With that being said children's diets have become unhealthy because they basically eat when they want to with no specific time set aside to tell their bodies its time to eat. The author wants to help parents get there children involved with cooking and get time in the kitchen to cook their food. This not only increase time spent with family but help the children see what they are eating and lead to a healthy way of eating.  Equally important, the author wishes to convey to families that the meals do not have to be complicated but they just can start off small and simple. This will allow the children to see the different type of food groups and they will begin to ask questions, resulting in knowledge about healthy lifestyle.