The document provides tips for maintaining a healthy lifestyle for children, including limiting screen time to 2 hours per day, eating meals together as a family without distractions, cutting out sugary drinks, eating breakfast daily and choosing healthy snacks. It emphasizes leading by example through parental behaviors, engaging children in food preparation, focusing on overall health rather than weight, encouraging physical activity, and using non-food rewards.

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Limit the amount of time spent playing video games, watching
TV and using the Internet to two hours or less a day.
Eat at the table and turn off the TV. (parents responsibility)

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Cutting sugary drinks out of your child's diet (and your own)
can help to significantly reduce the number of calories your
child consumes every day. Sweetened drinks and fruit drinks
offer nothing except sugar and calories.

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Eat Breakfast - Kids and teens who skip breakfast are not only
at risk for developing a weight problem, skipping this meal also
leaves kids and teens tired and irritable during the day -- and
hungry. In fact do not skip any meals

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Family Dinner - When families eat together, they tend to
eat healthier meals -- less fried foods and more vegetables

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Healthy Snacking- Snacking itself isn't bad for us, as long as
we're careful about the snacks we choose and how much we
eat.

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Educate Your Kids - Inviting kids and teens to go grocery
shopping with you or prepare meals by your side allows time
for you to teach them about what a body needs and doesn't
need

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Be a Role Model –Remember the old adage: “Kids will do as you do, not as
you say”? Your kids look to you, the parents, to see how to behave. If your
whole family eats healthy foods and gets active, and then your child will,
too!

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Focus on Health, Not on Weight

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Offer healthy food choices, if unhealthy food choices are not
kept in the house your child cannot ask for them

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Get Moving - Encourage active games, sports after
school, playing in the park.

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Limit takeaway food and high fat snacks, use low fat dairy
products, modify recipes
Use low fat cooking methods.

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•Treats" should be given occasionally.
•Plan rewards not related to food eg. Buy coloured pencils,
skipping rope, a new CD, toy, magazine, piece of clothing, visit
a friend, movies, park, zoo or the pool

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