Children's Health and Fitness - Len Saunders

From Baby Center?..

If your diet was bad before you had kids, it most likely still is.

Eating healthily takes time and effort. Nutrient rich vegetables can?t be purchased at a drive thru. They need to be cleaned and prepared. Same goes for lean meats and just about any food that has any substantial nutritional value.

Parenthood has not been proven to add more hours to one?s day. Nor has it been proven to motivate people to eat healthier foods.

Though the study, there?s always a study, cited in this CNN article proves parenthood doesn?t actually worsen bad eating habits, it does suggest that parents eat more saturated fats than non-parents.

That doesn?t really surprise me.

The addition of a child to your life changes everything. Suddenly, you don?t know where the time has gone. The most mundane aspects of childcare, along with the prerequisite hours of baby watching, can kill a surprising amount of time. Not to mention the fact that babies need to be held, leaving parents no, or one, handed. That?s where pizza and donuts, oversized muffins, potato chips, beer, and any foods that require only one hand to ingest, come in handy. Oh yeah, and then there?s the simple carb cravings that come with sleep deprivation. That?s where the cookies or copious amounts of buttered toast and sweetened coffee come in.

But seriously. The study, led by Dr. Helena Laroche, tracked 2,000 people over 20 years. Laroche focused on the first 7 years of a new parents? life and compared the diets of those subjects who became parents to those who never had kids:

Other than with saturated fat intake, parents? diets were similar to those without kids.

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Source: http://www.lensaunders.com/wp/?p=3244

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