Food nutrition for children
I am an English teacher who works at a public elementary school. My students are ten-year-old boys and girls from different ethnicities and religions. I enjoy teaching because I enjoy the positive and fresh thoughts of children; everyday I am amazed at their capacity to receive information and to interpret it according to their beliefs. I make an effort to transmit to my student’s concepts and principles, which will help them live happier, peaceful lives. One of the concepts that I regularly comment on is food nutrition.
Even though proper food nutrition has a deep impact on the quality of life of a person and on his well being most parents never educate their children on how to eat a healthy, balanced diet. Kids are raised eating junk food such as chips, hot dogs, fries, candy bars and ice cream. They rarely eat vegetables, fruits, or lean meat because their parents don’t serve these foods at the dinner table; food nutrition at most of their homes consists of Mac Donald’s happy meals.
I encourage my students to try new flavors and ingredients; I often bring fruit salads, vegetable sandwiches, oatmeal cookies, and frozen yogurt to offer as free snacks during the lunch break. Most of the children that have eaten these snacks love their taste and wish their parents would offer them something similar at home. Proper food nutrition leads to healthier, happier children because it stabilizes their energy levels and prevents the energy peaks and lows which lead to hyperactivity followed by extreme fatigue.