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by: Jasper Conan Poor eating habits do come with a price! What you get is not just an oversized body, but possibly a host of other concomitant diseases that will leave you feeling lethargic. Surely this is something you do not wish to see in your child, for their learning capacity in the earlier years is enormously powerful and therefore they should be in good health to make the most during these vital years. With this in mind, it is of paramount importance that as a parent, you take a proactive approach to instilling good eating habits in your child. It is common that children usually have the habit of choosing foods. This is a normal part of growing up. Most choosy eaters aged between one and a half up to five. Parents need to ensure that they develop healthy eating habits during these years for otherwise they will find it hard to alter their unhealthy eating habits when they grow up. Below are some tips to handle choosy eaters and encourage healthy eating habits. 1. Always let your ...

Developing healthy eating habits isn't as confusing or as restrictive as many people imagine. The first principle of a healthy diet is simply to eat a wide variety of foods. This is important because different foods make different nutritional contributions. Secondly, fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes—foods high in complex carbohydrates, fiber, vitamins, and minerals, low in fat, and free of cholesterol—should make up the bulk of the calories you consume. The rest should come from low-fat dairy products, lean meat and poultry, and fish. You should also try to maintain a balance between calorie intake and calorie expenditure—that is, don't eat more food than your body can utilize. Otherwise, you will gain weight. The more active you are, therefore, the more you can eat and still maintain this balance. Following these three basic steps doesn't mean that you have to give up your favorite foods. As long as your overall diet is balanced and rich in nutrients and fiber, ther...

Food and Uric Acid Uric acid is a purine metabolic waste substances from the food we eat. It is also a byproduct from the breakdown of cells in the blood. Purine itself is a substance contained in any food that comes from the living body. In other words, in the living body there is this purine substances, and because we eat these creatures, then moves into purine substance in our body. Various vegetables and fruits also contained purine. Purine also resulted from the destruction of body cells that occurs normally or because of certain diseases. Normally, uric acid will be released in the body through the stool (feces) and urine, but because the kidneys are unable to remove uric acid that is causing rising levels in the body. Another thing that can increase uric acid levels is that we consume too many foods that contain lots of purines. Excess uric acid will then be collected in the joints, causing pain or swelling. Patients with gout after undergoing appropriate treatment can be treate...