Water is the essence of life. Although, getting our kids to eat and drink more water is easier said than done. We’ve found the best way is to incorporate foods that have high water content. Since I’ve been on my Eden diet a constant concern has been my children’s nutrition. I can easily make the right choices, but my children want to eat McDonalds, hot dogs and pasta. All of these foods have low water content. How can we achieve the near impossible?
Easy, we just tell them they have to eat the food we give them.
Sure they put up a fuss and we keep reiterating this all they are going to eat – no dessert. The first foods we tackled in getting them to eat and drink more water was their liquids. My children only drink apple juice and those V8 fusions drinks. A month ago we began diluting their juice more than usual. I never gave them 100% juice; I always cut it in half, half water and half juice. A month ago we began to add less and less juice.
They now drink 1/3 juice and 2/3 water. The improvements I’ve seen is more frequent bowel movements, looser stools, higher energy(I can’t say that was wanted), and most importantly improved sleeping pattern. Their foods took a little creativity. Since most vegetables are cooked and therefore are robbed of some of tier nutritional value as well as water content we decided to incorporate more fresh, raw vegetable and fruits. They are served a fresh salad everyday for dinner and occasionally for lunch.
We are slowly incorporating the lunch salad – I think they are onto me.
The salad is made with fresh spinach and no lettuce. Spinach has a high nutritional value and immensely heavy in antioxidants. I also add in shredded carrots, pickles (they love them) and a dressing. They are particularly fond of ranch dressing. We also cut back on cookies, crackers and other crunchy snacks. If a food is crunchy it usually has extremely low water content. If they want a snack we usually give them some fresh fruit or yogurt. Try incorporating more water in your children’s diet and reap the benefits.
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I’m so glad I found this. My son is a tiny baby right now, but the day is going to come when he sees some ridiculous cereal commercial with a cartoon character that has his eyes popping out of his head, and starts begging me to buy that trash. I worry about what I’m going to do and how can I make him understand that this stuff is not food.
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What I found with my girls is just not letting them eat those kinds of foods. I also limit thier television to an hour a day. We have a WholeFoods Grocery store nearby that sells Organic foods and that is where we shop. When they ask for McDonalds I tell them we don’t eat that food anymore; over a month they stopped asking. Limiting thier television has helped tremendously – never trust a food product that launches huge ad campaigns. Best of luck to you.